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although i don't agree with some statements he made i hate how everyone is bashing the dude. I definitely would of used better words but then again its the job of media to make everything he says sound worst than it does Hes had his good moments. I remember seeing him skate up to the local park and give all the little kids boards,shirts, stickers etc out the back of his car and hung out with them and answered all questions with a smile. I never seen negative things in vids or in person. i feel theres some truth to the LE situation he should've went harder and just gave it his all but also at the same time he dont have shoe sponsor cash or other checks coming in so compared to what he was making to go down to le where im sure its royalty checks only dont make sense for a skater who was one of the top dudes. at the end of the day keeping it real with homies dont pay the bills but also can fuck you over. Keep ya head up darrell.
Although I don't necessarily disagree with your statement about "the media", the way I understand it is that magazine interviews are usually published word for word unless there's a note about cutting away...that's the whole point of them. If people gave interviews and then media outlets took that, edited it all to hell to make people say different things, and then published interviews where, say, Brian Anderson was saying, "I have...a girl....friend who....knows that I.....am....not.....gay," no one would ever give interviews.
When the media uses snippets of sound bites to make a point for their own means, then yes, they're fabricating an angle, and that sort of thing does happen constantly. But this one unfortunately is on Darrell.
i interviewed some dudes for magazines- not any big ones, so this might be the reason- and shit always got messed up and things were taken out of context. and i gotta say it was never in the favor of the skater...
Magazines make edits, they revise what people say and correct grammar, they change sentence structure and cut questions down/out to fit to the pages. It's called journalism, if they didnt do that interviews would basically be stenography because each one would be so long/boring whenever someone doesnt have a good answer to a question. Might seem lame but thats the way it is/was/always will be.
i know what you and don t even wanna speak against it! i just gotta say that there are also bad journalists... that fuck shit up.
but who cares shit happens... and it s not like it happened to someone important
LOL...well I asked Darrell and he said that HE was important.
Just kidding.
Seriously though...I understand the need for editing because reading a transcript would just be boring as hell, but you can't tell me that Corey Duffel said, "One day I heard this racist jerk say that he thinks Stevie Williams is a trashy nigger," and that was edited to, "
One day I
heard this racist jerk say that he think
s Stevie Williams is a trashy nigger."
I know stuff is shuffled around, and I know there are bad journalists too (I mean, I DID watch The Wire), but anyone with any shred of journalistic or human integrity would not change the intent of someone's statement around and not catch shit for it from somewhere.
I'm a starry-eyed idealist I guess.
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