My own critics might say that Goodman’s views were common at the time, or that in the summer and early fall of 2020 the “health risk” of letting healthy athletes play organized sports was still not known. Goodman’s views might have been fairly common, but the latter assertion - that by this point in time it couldn’t be known that athletes faced no risk from Covid - is spurious and would be revisionist history.
Two months after the Wuhan Outbreak, every real scientist or doctor should have known Covid posed no health risk to young people. For what it’s worth, I wrote my own story in July 2020 that confidently asserted that there was no risk to young people and we should let the kids play for reasons outlined in my piece. In stark contrast to Goodman’s columns, today I wouldn’t change a single word of my piece.
Also FWIW, I’m the journalist who ended up being censored on Facebook - for spreading ‘misinformation” ... and for being right, something that’s never happened to Mr. Goodman.
The 2020 Alabama squad might have been the best Alabama team I’ve ever pulled for. This season brought some much-appreciated light into the lives of millions of Bama fans depressed by the lockdowns. It earned DeVonta Smith a Heisman trophy and made key players like Mac Jones and Najee Harris millionaires when they were later drafted in the first round of the NFL (something that wouldn’t have happened if the season had been cancelled).
If Joe interviewed any of these players for his book, I wonder if he told them he was pissed off this season even took place.
I agree with you about journalists. I can’t even bear to watch the local news reports anymore after their abysmal “work” during the scamdemic. It was sickening to hear them day after day extolling the virtues of Fauxi and the other health scammers who “had our best interests at heart” while destroying small businesses, ruining the economy, tearing families apart, and scaring the daylights out of everyone to get them to line up like sheep for testing and then the jabs. In my opinion, most journalists and news outlets have been compromised by advertisers like Pfizer and are not to be trusted.
If I may quibble. The mainstream media is long dead. I think what really drove you, and me, to Substack, is the alternative media. It's gatekeepers, who are often one step below the government flavor of the day narrative, became another hurdle preventing those of us with novel ideas from being able to express them. I think what occurred was a combination of fear of big brother and the attitude that developed from taking on a big fish complex in a small pond. However it's podcasting and independent publishing that has shaken and stirred things up and only taking over the internet, which will occur at some point, will end this form of outlet for us.
Bill, my husband & I cancelled Al.com years ago (print & online). Bad for blood pressure to continue. I may catch a free read here & there.
Goodman was always a pain in the asset; seemed to find ways to be critical of this or that re: our Crimson Tide. (A Finebaum wannabe?). I got the impression he didn’t like success exhibited rear after year.
Now I can’t even remember the names of Al.com sportswriters I liked & followed (& wouldn’t have remembered his name but for your Substack).
I have become an Auburn fan of sorts since covid - for various reasons. A granddaughter chose AU & is loving her life there. Grands trump everything.
But Coach Harsin won me over re: cv19 shot pressure. He was slammed from all sides & our other major state university coach praised by being all in. I’m still rankled by that.
Keep the good writing coming; I’m a fellow Alabamian. Substack has been my mainstay since I was introduced to it months ago. To all my writers I follow, y’all are incredible!😉
Journalism is Clintonism...1/2 truths 1/2 falsehoods, woven into an emotional cripple appeal wrapped in a rainbow. Goodman, AL com are purveyors of illiberal opinion disguised as 'who what where why when' while addressing none of the fundamental precepts of a credible journalist.
Philip Rawls should teach al.com journalism. But that defeats their business model.
I have believed sincerely for 2 years now that SEC football fans saved America in August of 2020. The other thing Al.com and other similar outlets in the Southeast don’t care to admit, if there were no college football season, they’d all be out of a job.
My own critics might say that Goodman’s views were common at the time, or that in the summer and early fall of 2020 the “health risk” of letting healthy athletes play organized sports was still not known. Goodman’s views might have been fairly common, but the latter assertion - that by this point in time it couldn’t be known that athletes faced no risk from Covid - is spurious and would be revisionist history.
Two months after the Wuhan Outbreak, every real scientist or doctor should have known Covid posed no health risk to young people. For what it’s worth, I wrote my own story in July 2020 that confidently asserted that there was no risk to young people and we should let the kids play for reasons outlined in my piece. In stark contrast to Goodman’s columns, today I wouldn’t change a single word of my piece.
Also FWIW, I’m the journalist who ended up being censored on Facebook - for spreading ‘misinformation” ... and for being right, something that’s never happened to Mr. Goodman.
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/07/31/covid-19-poses-virtually-no-health-risk-to-athletes/
The 2020 Alabama squad might have been the best Alabama team I’ve ever pulled for. This season brought some much-appreciated light into the lives of millions of Bama fans depressed by the lockdowns. It earned DeVonta Smith a Heisman trophy and made key players like Mac Jones and Najee Harris millionaires when they were later drafted in the first round of the NFL (something that wouldn’t have happened if the season had been cancelled).
If Joe interviewed any of these players for his book, I wonder if he told them he was pissed off this season even took place.
I agree with you about journalists. I can’t even bear to watch the local news reports anymore after their abysmal “work” during the scamdemic. It was sickening to hear them day after day extolling the virtues of Fauxi and the other health scammers who “had our best interests at heart” while destroying small businesses, ruining the economy, tearing families apart, and scaring the daylights out of everyone to get them to line up like sheep for testing and then the jabs. In my opinion, most journalists and news outlets have been compromised by advertisers like Pfizer and are not to be trusted.
Thank you for calling out the blatant hypocrisy.
I didn’t realize you were a southerner until your last article. The “ya’ll” gave it away.
If I may quibble. The mainstream media is long dead. I think what really drove you, and me, to Substack, is the alternative media. It's gatekeepers, who are often one step below the government flavor of the day narrative, became another hurdle preventing those of us with novel ideas from being able to express them. I think what occurred was a combination of fear of big brother and the attitude that developed from taking on a big fish complex in a small pond. However it's podcasting and independent publishing that has shaken and stirred things up and only taking over the internet, which will occur at some point, will end this form of outlet for us.
The jab kills you case closed.
Forgot to answer your title question!
YES! Goodman should be big enough to apologize but not holding my breathe
Bill, my husband & I cancelled Al.com years ago (print & online). Bad for blood pressure to continue. I may catch a free read here & there.
Goodman was always a pain in the asset; seemed to find ways to be critical of this or that re: our Crimson Tide. (A Finebaum wannabe?). I got the impression he didn’t like success exhibited rear after year.
Now I can’t even remember the names of Al.com sportswriters I liked & followed (& wouldn’t have remembered his name but for your Substack).
I have become an Auburn fan of sorts since covid - for various reasons. A granddaughter chose AU & is loving her life there. Grands trump everything.
But Coach Harsin won me over re: cv19 shot pressure. He was slammed from all sides & our other major state university coach praised by being all in. I’m still rankled by that.
Keep the good writing coming; I’m a fellow Alabamian. Substack has been my mainstay since I was introduced to it months ago. To all my writers I follow, y’all are incredible!😉
This is how "do your part" and "you do it for the team" hashes out with medical ethics: https://live2fightanotherday.substack.com/p/you-have-no-right-to-endanger-others
Journalism is Clintonism...1/2 truths 1/2 falsehoods, woven into an emotional cripple appeal wrapped in a rainbow. Goodman, AL com are purveyors of illiberal opinion disguised as 'who what where why when' while addressing none of the fundamental precepts of a credible journalist.
Philip Rawls should teach al.com journalism. But that defeats their business model.
Great piece, and I'm commenting almost a year after you published.
I love it when an opinion, based on little more than foolish rhetoric comes back to bite the opiner in the ass.
I'm retired, but started researching this Covid madness in January of 2020...
Nedless to say, by March of that year, I had decided not to get vaxxed.
Worked out OK for me...
I have believed sincerely for 2 years now that SEC football fans saved America in August of 2020. The other thing Al.com and other similar outlets in the Southeast don’t care to admit, if there were no college football season, they’d all be out of a job.