“Where’s Walter Cronkite when you need him??? Probably rolling over in his grave with disgust at what the media has come to. There was a time when you could trust the news media and what they said was the truth without spin.”

Walter Cronkite was an undercover agent for the CIA and was used to cover up things like the Kennedy Assassination. They would even bring him out of retirement and prop him up in front of a camera to help cover up things like the 9/11 “attacks.”

Google Operation Mockingbird.

“In the 1950s, outlays for global propaganda climbed to a full third of the CIA’s covert operations budget. Some 3, 000 salaried and contract CIA employees were eventually engaged in propaganda efforts. The cost of disinforming the world cost American taxpayers an estimated $265 million a year by 1978, a budget larger than the combined expenditures of Reuters, UPI and the AP news syndicates.”

Cronkite was a trusted and valued part of that huge mass propaganda effort.

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Maybe I am off, and I apologize if I am. Again, I don’t even think there’s anything wrong if you did. I just happen to disagree with the belief that you can find RB’s later in the draft, yet somehow you can’t find corners late as well. All I want is for us to take the best player available at any position besides QB.

As for writing negative about TR, no you haven’t, but it would be awful hard to find something negative about him. You have, however, written articles that back up your thought that you don’t take a RB that early.

I’m not going to say anymore, because it really doesn’t even matter to me, and I don’t want it to seem like I am attacking you. I love the site and appreciate all the work you do for it. Just keep doing what you are doing.

@Hawaiian – Really think you’re way off. Absolutely no reason for you to believe Joe would have crafted a negative story about Richardson from a Tweet like that.

Don’t recall Joe ever writing anything negative about Trent Richardson. However Joe’s written numerous times about the Bucs not being wise to invest the No. 5 pick on a running back, and how you can get great backs later in the draft, and how the Bucs’ bigger need is at corner. … All that has nothing to do with Richardson.

I think Chris makes a solid point. I’m sorry Joe, you know I love this site, but do you really expect anyone to believe that you wouldn’t have made an article had Trent Richardson made that tweet? I don’t even care, as this is your site and I enjoy arguing daily with people about TR vs. Claiborne. But come on, you would have tore TR a new one for saying that. But again, I could really care less if you show both sides of it. I probably wouldn’t either if I had my own site. But you could at least admit it:)

Thanks for the reply. Solid and I hear you. There’s always more than one way too look at things and now I see both sides. I’d also be lying if I didn’t say admit that part of what sparked me to mention it is because I believe Richardson is the better player, hence I wanted to hear some “anti-Claiborne” post as well as the “anti-Richardson” ones that have been up here.

If Richardson and Claiborne had been reversed, and Richardson had the score of 4 on the Wonderlic, and he had Tweeted something that made me (partially) question his judgement/attitude, then I may have let it go, too…considering I’m slightly higher on him than Claiborne.

All that being said, I won’t be upset if they draft Claiborne at all…it is true that CBs last much longer than RBs (typically) and I don’t see us competing for a Superbowl in the next few years.

Although it would be great to control the clock and have two threats at RB like most other teams.

Blount just feels like he’s “the guy” and spending the #5 overall pick on the position is a waste of an amazing draft pick. Only the Richardson junkies can disagree, and just barely. Back me up on this one, Joe.

@Chris – Thanks for your feedback. Couple of things:

Here is the Claiborne Tweet in question. “Some peopl don’t no what the test is about r what it is for. But u guys will have to do more then that to bring Momo17 dwn!!! $$$$$ ”

Joe read the Claiborne Twitterings at the time and didn’t think anything of them. Others made a big deal but it really didn’t stimulate Joe positive or negative. So Joe didn’t address it. Claiborne also didn’t write about money, just the $$$, which is quite a bit different. Basically, you’re saying Joe should have read deeply into that and that’s not exactly fair. Still, Joe’s initial reaction was that it wasn’t interesting or worth widly speculating about. Joe did write about the negative Wonderlic score extensively. … Joe’s post here reminds readers that Blount made a foolish quote on April 3, but this post is more about the media and not about having Blount’s back.

I mean, imagine if someone had floated the idea that the Bucs want to trade up to get Luck — how would we have expected Freeman to react if questioned about that?