Saturday 13 December 2014

Football's Court of Public Opinion: A Brief Case Study

Typecasts and Perception

Reputation is a powerful thing. Once a person becomes associated with certain character traits or attributes in a public platform, it becomes an innate factor in how they are judged by the world.

This is a way of saying that Ronaldo and diving will be forever linked in the domain of football media regardless of reality. Confirmation bias develops – as a result of what was (perhaps) at a time a true characterization of the player – and influences the way we interpret certain moments.