Current Problems with Sports News, Social Media, and AI-Generated Images

There’s a lot of important journalism to be done surrounding professional sports. But when the leagues own the media outlets covering them, there’s a real limit to how far the reporters can go. This situation, with the NFL owning a network, ranks up there with the problems created years ago with ESPN sucking up to the leagues so they wouldn’t lose the cable rights. For example: How ESPN and the NBA handled fights over civil rights in Hong Kong and China.

Saw great comment that Elon Musk is running Twitter into the ground in the manner of a cartoonish “chaotic evil” villain. Thoughtful analysis of the tech billionaire’s mismanagement of the bird site.

Talk about AI-generated images have been everywhere as of late, including concerns about  intellectual property of artists whose images are being modeled, the need to support human artists (my Twitter avatar was drawn by graphic designer/web comic artist Gordon McAlpin and my Zoom avatar created by graphic novelist Sophie Goldstein), and the emerging problems of deep-fake deceptions.

And finally, some disturbed person put together a Banshees of Inisherin video game!  Colm has to go through a Pac-Man-like maze trying to collect his severed fingers on the way to the pub before being caught one of his annoying pursuers.   (You may remember that Banshees was my “most memorable” movie of 2022.)