Modern sports media is compromised and broken, often acting as an infomercial for promoters rather than providing credible, objective reporting.

“When I said earlier in the show that the media is dead, it is not dying, it is dead. uh what you're seeing happen with billionaires being able to change something as historic as like even CBS News or uh the fighting of late night hosts or the undercoage by the mainstream media of Trump's NPM7”

When a respected journalist makes an allegation of unethical conduct by a peer, it is inherently credible because the accuser likely does not want to make the claim.

“I totally believe Ariel everything that he's saying there because if it'd be like if I came out and I was really offended and upset with things that Eddie Veter said. You would even if you didn't know anything about what Pearl Jam is doing right now”

A broadcaster's financial relationship with a promoter can create a conflict of interest that impacts their professional journalistic integrity.

“But if Dana White in any way is paying Max Kellerman, then Max Kellerman has probably an obligation to put the best possible slant on whatever he's talking about.”

Holding a degree in journalism validates one's status as a journalist.

“Well, that's great that you don't consider me one, but if you were ever to come to the Zaslo mansion, you would see that there is a degree from uh school of journalism, and that makes me journalism.”