by Eddie Pipkin
Image by mcmurryjulie from Pixabay
I was catching up on the sports news from the weekend – don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I loooove sports – and in reading about the Kansas City vs. Green Bay football game on Sunday night from the storied frozen tundra of Lambeau Field, my eye was drawn to the link to read more about the attendance of Taylor Swift. The site I linked to was not an entertainment site like People or TMZ, nor even a music-oriented site like Rolling Stone. It was a serious sports journalism site, and its readers, judging by the comments section at the bottom of the Taylor-as-game-spectator blurb, were not happy that they had deemed this a subject worth covering. It’s hard to get communications right, especially social media. Ask anybody who works in ministry. People have expectations.
The article about Taylor Swift’s appearance at the Chiefs-Packers game was brief, and I scrolled down to the comments section. The sentiments were chippy. My favorite (and I use that word in a dark sense here) was the gentleman from Hackensack who wrote, “The only reason I clicked on this article was to skip down to the comments section and express my anger that you wasted space covering this topic.” I would be tempted to say that he had established a high threshold in t