Twitter: Add Me to the List

OMG. So, like just about everybody seem to be obsessed with Twitter, right? And, I don't want to be the only slow bunny NOT on twitter, right? So, it ONLY makes sense that I sign up, right!?

Well...I just did!

https://twitter.com/mediamaxim

The sign-up process was REALLY easy! Now, I see why congressmen/women want twitter accounts...another reason to NOT pay attention in a business meeting. YAY! I hope the update while they are laundering the nation's money.

Anyway, I'm having a little trouble adding my cell phone device, though.

(insert sad face here.)


According to Twitter FAQ's my screen should show this:

but mine shows this:

Where is my box to enter my cell phone number?

Where is my ability to ALWAYS tell my loyal followers what I am doing?

HELP!

Media portrays Athletes as Heroes?!

Earlier this week NFL fans got the news of a lifetime about the oh-so-loved/ever-so-hated Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Terrell Owens. [img credit]

I was sitting in the barber's chair as it came across the screen that Owens had been released by the team for his on the field antics and off the field drama.

When Sports Center went to commercial my barber STOPPED cutting my hair (which made me mad because in today's world EVERYBODY is on a time restraint) to rant about how the media portrays athletes as heroes.

These were his three main topics:
1. The all around glamorous life athletes supposedly have.

2. The peachy-keen endorsements

3. All of the fine print of their contracts that requires them to do SO many hours of community service with the United Way and Boys and Girls Clubs of America.

I agreed whole-heartedly with EVERYTHING the guy said. Here at the University of Memphis it seems like EVERYBODY flocks to the jocks of their favorite sport. Then, next thing you know the players are arrested and interrogated for following their girlfriend's home from the club and slappin' them upside their heads and everything goes down the tubes.

Or, on a national level, Michael Phelps, hero from the latest Olympic games, lost his endorsements after being photographed inhaling marijuana. He was supposed to be such a good guy since he had done SO much work charity work and seemed to have such a promising future...

[img credit]Then, they go to the ULTIMATE extents to tear them down. In the article "Sheriff Too Aggressive in Phelps Case?" a defense attorney tells his opinion about the sherriff investigating Phelps case.

"The efforts that are being made here are unlike anything I've ever seen before," said Jack Swerling, a defense attorney in South Carolina. "I know Leon Lott, I know him to be an honorable guy. I've known him for 30 something years. But the efforts here are extraordinary on simple possession cases."

source

Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott arrested EIGHT people and questioned them to death about a man they know NOTHING about except what they've seen on television.

I'm sure those eight people were just stunned/amazed to see Phelps with a bong (as if ANY of them were even there) and wanted to photograph it to tell their friends how outrageous it seemed.

Anyway...
this is the end of MY rant.

Do, you think the media portrays athletes as heroes?