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The first amendment grants Americans the right to freedom of speech, but does that give reporters, talk show hosts, or the average Joe behind the computer the free pass to slam an athlete on their achievements? Athletes face tough training regiments and long hours pushing themselves to their limits. Additionally, when it comes to criticism many athletes find themselves as their own biggest critic. Many of these individuals fight the constant badgering from articles, highlight clips, and even segments of shows that focus on only the errors and mistakes that happened in a game. Have negative reviews taken over sports reporting? Some find these people to be super humans capable of the impossible when they are only humans. The negative feedback that athletes accumulate might seem harmless and easily cured by some thick skin, but from a deeper perspective this kind of verbal, written, and cyber abuse is destructive to the psyche and professional image of an athlete.
Olympic athletes are considered the planet’s greatest athletes. Picturing seven billion people is impossible, and believing that an athlete is among the top tier of those seven billion in a particular sport is hard to wrap any brain around. More difficult than this is a fourth place finisher in the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London being slandered on many different news sources the following morning. Lolo Jones is a three-time Olympian, six-time SEC track and field champion, and eleven-time All-American. The word "accomplished" can easily be associated with her career. She gained her fame and fortune from her athletics, sponsorships and use of social media sites, such as Twitter, to have a closer relationship with her fans. On August 5th, 2012, the New York Times released...

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Greenstein, Teddy. "If Manziel Allegations are True, It's Hurting More than His Reputation." ChicagoTribune.com. Chicago Tribune, 4 Aug. 2014. Web. 17 March 2014.
Jones, Lolo. "Lolo Jones: Media 'Ripped Me to Shreds' before Race." Today Show. NBC, 8 Aug. 2012. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.
Longman, Jere. "For Lolo Jones, Everything is Image." NYTimes.com. New York Times, 4 Apr. 2012. Web. 17 Mar. 2014.
Peeters, G., & Czapinski, J. Positive-Negative Asymmetry in Evaluations: The Distinction Between Affective and Informational Negativity Effects. In W. Stroebe & M. Hewstone (Eds.), Europeanreview of social psychology (Vol. 1, pp.33-60). New York: Wiley. Web. 17 March 2014
Taylor, S. E. Asymmetrical Effects of Positive and Negative Events: The Mobilization-Minimization Hypothesis. Psychological Bulletin; 110,67-85; Google Scholar. Web. 17 March 2014

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