Joe Paterno Laments the Demise of Print Media, Still Isn’t a Fan of This Internet Thing
College Football, Media Gossip/Musings September 17th. 2009, 5:30pm
“I read the newspapers. I feel bad about the way things have gone with the newspaper business, with the guys, with the whatever they call it, computers, getting all that stuff on. Because it’s taking away some of the guys … Grant Rice and those guys, and I don’t know it’s a different world. And I’m not part of that world. I’m really not. I love to read the newspapers. I’d love to read the sports page, but to be very frank with you, I don’t because so much of it is you guys have to base on what you are getting in an e-mail, what you’re getting because I’ve talked to a couple of guys about it. You’re influenced by what people are after you to say something because you’re competing. It’s like I don’t even turn on the television set anymore, because one television station is anti-Obama. The other one - you like to have somebody have an impartial view of some things because they studied it and they know about it. And they’re not being influenced by the guy that owns the paper or the guy that owns the radio station so it’s a different world and it’s not the kind of world that I’m comfortable with.” [Sun Gazette, Morning Call]
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September 17th, 2009 at 5:34 pm
earlier this year he called Twitter “tweedle-de-dos”
September 17th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
Que?
September 17th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
You cut out the very last line, which is money, “That’s a speech. I usually get 100 bucks for that. “
September 17th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
“Joe Pa proceeded to tell war stories until about 3 pm, then he excused himself to go yell at a cloud.”
I understand what he’s getting at…I think.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
September 17th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
/tj
steve nash vitamin water commercial. steve nash is funnier than shaq. yeah i said it. h/t to sharapova’s thigh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZkaEge0R8&feature=player_embedded#t=88
/end tj
September 17th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
start it from the beginning
September 17th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Best. commercial. Ever.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
What the fuck is the internet?
September 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Nash sounds like Gob Bluth in that commercial.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
GSG - I wish I could just embed this into the comments section, but I’ll just do a link instead.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
I’d much rather watch Steve Nash go up against other athletes than watch Shaq.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
Man I loved that show.
September 17th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
why are we doing this?! are we crazy?! maybe!
September 17th, 2009 at 5:48 pm
I was hoping sharapova’s thigh was going to be in the commercial
September 17th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
haha thanks saprissa.
IT’S AS EASY AS 1-2-3
STEP 1:…
STEP 2:…
STEP 3:…
Step 4?
Brilliant
September 17th, 2009 at 5:58 pm
I’m sorry but the correct answer is White Goodman from Dodgeball.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
LOL grant rice!
September 17th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
I’m sorry but the correct answer is White Goodman from Dodgeball.
Are you serious? Come on!
September 17th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
did i really miss a gilmore girls discussion? only saw the 1st season and a half of that show … a rare time when i simply gave up on a show.
OFFICE PREMIERE TONIGHT!
September 17th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
It goes:
1). Always Sunny
2). Fringe
3). Community
…
4,291). Whatever is on the WWJD channel
…
8,720). Office
8,721). Bleach
September 17th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
totally fucking forgot, thanks TBL
September 17th, 2009 at 6:14 pm
GSG, was it you I gave the community link to the other night?
September 17th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
yea, and I think you also gave me the Always Sunny link.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
check out this song. its about the flash . i might be behind on this but i just found it today and wanted to share it. i like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odU1bHaYNDQ
September 17th, 2009 at 6:17 pm
Is today “link to lame superhero music Day”? First Aquaman, now this.
Someone, quick, find me the Green lantern Song!
/serious
//actual likes the Green Lantern
September 17th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
GL is the shit
September 17th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Green Lantern >> DJ Green Lantern (or Green Lah’nn)
I just wanted to make that clear for everyone.
September 17th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
That Nash commercial was funny
September 17th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
My Grandma before her eyesight got too bad had taught herself HTML and was running a website into her 80s.
September 17th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Did Paterno really drop a Grantland Rice reference? Because, wow…that dates the guy for sure. Who else does he lament getting driven out? Shirley Povich? Ring Lardner?
/snarky new school’d