CIMINI dept. : Classless Cimini's Double Standards ~ ~ ~

Don't waste your time reading this worthless "article". It's basically a blogger bitching about a beat writer who brought up another media guy.

 

I think Cimini's one of the most dedicated journalists following the Jets, he constantly posts on his blog and writes more articles than anyone else as well -- articles of good quality i might add.

 

Cimini is a douche.

 

Fuck Cimini. The guy's an immature journalist who wishes he could be Peter King. Every time I read his blog during TC I saw more and more references to his hotels and meals than to the team he was supposed to be covering. Now, in today's story, he starts calling Sanchez a "turnover machine" as if he's been throwing INTs in bunches over the past 6 weeks. The rookie QB has a bad game and all of a sudden the franchise in is in deep shit, as if we didn't beat better opponents before. At least he's not using poise as if it were an indefinite article anymore.

 

Cimini is a strange writer. One of the traps involved in writing about a team as extensively as he's written about the Jets is that you begin to lose your objectivity. You're not a fan, or shouldn't be if you're a professional sportswriter covering the team, and yet after you watch them and interact with them as many times as a beat writer does it's hard to maintain your objectivity.

We saw this with Steve Serby decades ago, when he turned from a relatively intelligent and objective source into a ranting, Jet-hating (jumping on the bandwagon during their few bright streaks) unfan who was incapable of doing much more than stoke the fires of frustrated Jet fans in the inevitable downturns that resulted from the latter stages of Leon Hess's clueless ownership.

I see it with Cimini's stuff all the time. You can see the determined attempt to take 3 steps back and watch the Jets dispassionately and then the moments when human nature sets in and he just goes off in a quiet rant about the things he's seeing happening and the way they fit in the Jets long-term failure pattern.

I think there's a really good argument for professional news organizations limiting the amount of time that a person spends covering one team and rotating responsibilities over a range of people. Nobody can keep their objectivity when their job is to dissect the things that are working and not working for a team on a daily basis. Certainly they can't do it over a long period of years.

Cimini should be covering something else 90% of the time at this point. His viewpoint is valuable for Jets fans but we need to see it from a vantage point of 10,000 feet and much less often. He's skimming the trees now and headed for a crash.

 

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I think this is a pretty level headed, solid assessment of Cimini. His first instinct is towards the negative with this team. I also agree with your critique of long term beat writers and the need to shuffle them around, SPECIFICALLY with(to be miserably frank about the organizations I root for) dismal franchises like the Mets and Jets. A lot of times, whether he's right or not, reading Cimini after a loss is like salt on an open wound, and I get the sense that he sort of likes it that way.

-X-

 

The fans first instinct is also towards the negative w/ this team which is why I always wonder why he is so hated?

 

PS,

I agree with the author of the piece when he calls Cimini hypocritical. I also think Cimini's comments highlight the bitter scorn that members of the traditional media have for independent bloggers who, for whatever reason, weren't able to work in traditional media. The fact of the matter is, most of these people are very talented and simply didn't do the right internships or know the right people. Cimini and others need to adapt as the tide turns away from them. Quite simply, journalism isn't really a difficult trade to ply.

-X-

 

Vacchiano should cover the Jets. Isola should cover the Jets. AND Cimini should cover the Knicks (he deserves them).

 

Because the fan has already beaten himself up enough. I think as much as the Jets fan is more likely to be negative, the common bond is that glimmer of hope that they're wrong, that the Jets will surprise them. Cimini is like a nail in the coffin.

-X-

 

Wow, theres a CIMINI dept. now? I did not know!

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