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And Meltzer has to report on hearsay to a degree. That's the nature of wrestling. Journalists also don't have to be unbiased. Don't try and straw-man me with that. The issue is that if he said "Vince McMahon is plotting to launch a nuclear bomb at Dailys just to fuck over AEW" you would eat it up.
I don't hate Meltzer or anything, and it's not like the guy has never broken a story. But his mates are in AEW and can peddle him whatever bullshit they want. They have completely slipped the "AEW was super-nice to New Japan" absolute tosh past people. Vince McMahon was definitely getting involved in how NXT was run. WWE are both simultaneously incompetent for promoting NXT not enough and doing too much. NXT is like WCW because Sam Shaw exists, but AEW is fine with its teleporting.
Meltzer, like The Young Bucks with their t-shirts, has worked out that the wrestling fan base is getting smaller and smaller because this shit sucks. But they're getting nerdier and nerdier, so they will spend more money per head. None of them are concerned with increasing wrestling's reputation, and are perfectly happy to monetize whoever is left. For The Bucks (and the other AEW executives), that means doing PWG-style horse-shit and being self-indulgent until the billionaire pulls the plug. For Meltzer, that means saying stuff that the audience that is left wants to hear to get as many subscriptions as possible. "Yay AEW; nay WWE."
Meltzer has a business to run and the money, sadly, is in pandering to whatever the fuck is left, and that means actively going with this online narrative that anyone that is not Vince McMahon is a good guy. It's completely fooled some people -- yourself and BigCrippyZ included. You'll root for anything that is not Vince McMahon, regardless of how shit it is.
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