Source: EricBischoff.com
As we reported yesterday, Eric Bischoff has been fighting back against the often speculative and sometimes false reporting that goes around the internet wrestling community. Yesterday, he singled out two well-known internet writers for what he suggested was “marks speculating” reporting. Today, he posted a red lined version of another internet writer’s commentary on Bischoff deciding to fight back.
I know that a lot of kids, teenagers, and college students read this website so I thought I’d give a quick definition of what “red line” means in this circumstance. When a document is “red lined” it means that an original copy was marked up with comments and suggested improvements. In my day job outside of TNAStars.com, I frequently review “red lined” versions of legal documents. For the younger population of wrestling fans that surf over to TNAStars.com, I’m sure that you’ll run into “red lined” versions of your original work in college or once you are working full-time. Back to the story…
What I liked most about Bischoff’s red line was how he said that “mistakes” on wrestling websites impact real people in the business. Here is the original commentary that Bischoff singled out (in italics) and his response (in bold):
We have made mistakes in our 23 history. We haven’t lied. With all due respect to Bischoff, an item about the X Division isn’t a make or break story for our readers or our livelihood
NO BUT GETTING HITS ON YOUR SITE BY POSTING STORIES YOU KNOW ARE HOT BUTTONS IS HOW YOU MAKE YOUR MONEY-AND THAT’S MY ISSUE WITH YOUR SITE. THE “MISTAKES” YOU MAKE LIKE THIS AFFECT PEOPLES LIVES (THOSE THAT ACTUALLY HAVE JOBS IN THE BUSINESS), AND THE FACT THAT YOU CONSISTANTLY PULL CRAP LIKE THIS JUST TO GET HITS YOU CAN SELL TO YOUR ADVERTISERS MAKES YOU A PARASITE IN MY OPINION.
Bischoff has a point here and it’s one that I think too many of the “copy and paste” generation of wrestling webmasters don’t understand. I’m not suggesting that the folks who wrote the original commentary that Bischoff is red lining are copying and pasting (they’re not), but I am suggesting that the hundreds of wrestling websites that copy and paste false news and rumors are really hurting people in the business that they claim to love.
Click here to read the original commentary with Eric Bischoff’s comments embedded within the text. It’s a very interesting read and I encourage you to check it out.
Wow. I don’t always agree with Eric Bischoff’s wrestling philosophy but I never doubt his success.
Bischoff really takes these guys to task and proves in bright red what we have said all along, these dirt sheets are mostly rumors or flat out lies. Great job Eric I really hope he continues to push this.
BTW I’ve noticed a great deal of the copy and paste sites have ignored this story.
Interesting stuff, right?
This is what I see… The popular internet writers that Bischoff references have been allowed to run rampant because the vast majority of their reader bases are kids, teenagers, and young adults with little, if any, real world life experiences. As such, these internet writers have knowingly redefined and denigrated the internet wrestling community’s journalistic standards.
Now that’s an assumption on my part, but after doing this internet wrestling game for 15 years and being an extremely engaged member of society, there is a clear difference between what is accepted as “news” in the internet wrestling community and what is accepted as “news” in the New York Times, FOX News, CNN, my local paper, etc.
In short, most of the internet wrestling community’s “news” is what you’d find during prime time on cable news channels or on the editorial page of newspapers. That is, I think, one of the main cruxes of Bischoff’s argument and I believe he’s winning this battle hands down. Bischoff’s red lined version of the popular internet writer’s commentary was amazing. Absolutely amazing.
That’s the type of cold, real world slap in the face that the internet wrestling community has needed since day one.