Credibility and performance can be unrelated subjects, but are not always so. In fact, credibility and performance are often intertwined, as performance in a given field often enhances credibility.
Credibility with the MSM has been a problem since the latter 1950s as the New York Times began increasing its influence by decreasing the factual basis of its international coverage, to where today the MSM has degenerated into little better than a purveyor of distortion. MSM and pop culture have intertwined over that time period to where Rolling Stone magazine has been covering political stories since its inception. And it's easy to say that the magazine has not covered politics with much credibility, especially given their recent smear against scholar Michael Ledeen on Iran.
Credibility and performance are often intertwined in professional sports as well, and this look at the dichotomy between performance and marketing gives an insight into the credibility a sporting or other major endeavor can gain or lose by its strategy of marketing. That marketing can help - or harm - credibility is something that can be, and has been, forgotten over the years, and can give the truth to a Michael Nesmith lyric from the mid-1990s - "because you're only, only selling ads."
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