Fisher talks about Hopkins because he knows a large chunk of the Dallas fan base is wanting Hop on the Cowboys. He 100% does that for clicks.
I haven’t clicked on that link but it is likely that he doesn’t have anything new to tell us. No “inside info” from someone with the team. Nothing that hasn’t already been written by other media members. He actually uses other articles as the source for his information, which of course, anyone can do. In fact, when someone makes a thread here at CZ, they are doing the same thing. Being “at the Star in Frisco” doesn’t make that any more new news or inside info than it does for anyone else in the world. Yet he tries to make out like it is. He always puts “at the Star” out in your face, and uses phrases like “exclusive” that tend to make you think that what he’s saying is some kind of privy information that he has some how uncovered. It isn’t.
And really, my issue with Fisher is that he tries to act like a lot that he talks or writes about is some inside story or from a source with the team. It never is.
I used to read (and watch) his stuff sometimes, but he never told me anything that I didn’t already know. Didn’t have someone with the team that was feeding him anything, and basically was simply rehashing things that had already been talked about in a thread here at CZ.
And that is fine… but it isn’t going to get me to read or watch anything he does because it is almost never anything more than what I already know.
Even then, I might read or watch some of his stuff if he didn’t try to make it sound like it was something you couldn’t read anywhere on the internet. But he does. He uses words that try to make the viewers/readers thing what he’s saying is “from the Star in Frisco”, when it has already been talked about on message boards all over.
Couple all of that with him trying so hard to get clicks and viewers (which is very obvious), and it is a really bad look… which is why so many here have a problem with him
Oh, and what makes it worse is that he used to try to charge viewers for that every day information by putting that stuff behind a paywall. Many here will remember he did that. Imagine reading stuff here and then paying money to hear the same thing from Fisher.
At least he has realized that he can get his money for clicks and stopped charging people for it.
