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Originally Posted by rivethead

The vast majority of PR is blatant hypocrisy. To hold you to the same standard you'd like to hold the casionos, why aren't you strident and outraged every time dana massages the truth in a statement, or goes back on his word?

Because you care about some things, and you don't care about others. Everybody does.

I'm just as bothered when Dana does something stupid or says things he shouldn't. I'm far from a Dana White fan and hold him to the standards I'd expect from someone else. I don't in general give people passes when they do things that bother me.

I actually see that as a good thing. I see it as pressure for zuffa to tighten up it's game and make fewer mistakes to be exploited in the media. It's not like they're in a position to topple zuffa and there is no UFC. But the pressure can make the product better, and that's what I want.

We both know how Dana responds to things of this nature and it usually doesn't involve taking the message to heart and usually involves a lot of swearing. So probably not going to be a good thing.

I can't tell if this is someone who is pretending to care, or someone who genuinely takes an interest in these issues and is coincidentally focused on looking for weakness in zuffa. I don't think anyone can.

I think it's pretty easy to see if they care or not based on the continual target of their letter campaigns. Not once have they ever expressed a concern about anything else but the UFC in this manner. They don;t have websites deriding the NFL or any number of other organizations that have issues with employees being charged with serious crimes

But ultimately, they're right. To me, it doesn't matter where the information comes from, if it's accurate. I don't care about their agenda, because they're actually right.

To each their own personally I always consider the source of the message.