Leaving aside all the
other factors - old - fashioned anti-Catholicism, eagerness to discredit a traditional morality most
publicly represented by the Catholic Church, and so forth - look
at it from a purely journalistic viewpoint: nobody is
going to win a Pulitzer Prize for exposing rude things done to a fourteen - year - old boy in the basement bathroom of, say, Second Baptist Church in Indianapolis.
much like when a country can't divulge highly classified information
publicly for obvious economic and military reasons, a professional soccer organization must keep certain things in - house so they don't devalue a player, expose a weakness, provide info that could give an opposing club leverage in future negotiations and / or give them vital intel regarding a future match, but when dishonesty becomes the norm the relationship between cub and fan will surely deteriorate... in our particular case, our club has done an absolutely atrocious job when it comes to cultivating a healthy and honest relationship with the media or their fans, which has contributed greatly to our lack of success in the transfer market... along with poor decisions involving weekly wages, we can't ever seem to get true market value for most of our outgoing players and
other teams seem to squeeze every last cent out of us when we are looking to buy; why wouldn't they, when you
go to the table with such a openly desperate and dysfunctional team like ours, you have all the leverage; made even worse by the fact that who wouldn't want to see our incredibly arrogant and thrifty manager squirm during the process... the real issue
at this club is respect, a word that appears to be entirely lost on those within our hierarchy... this is the starting point from which all great relationships between club and supporters form... this doesn't mean that a team can't make mistakes along the way, that's just human nature, it's about how they chose to deal with these situations that will determine if this relationship flourishes or devolves..
I, on the
other hand, being less knowledgeable than they, neverthless know enough to
go at it here on - line
publicly in defense of possibly the majority of Realtors» disenchantment with CREA across Canada.