There is a common disconnect within the world of journalism in 2021: the difference between opinion-based columns and fact-based reporting. While some get confused by the non-"Big J" public, there is oftentimes spillage from one to the other as the media world finds those who report on news also at times making news, and a convoluted label of who exactly is a journalist. This discussion was furthered on The Dan Patrick Show on Tuesday as Andrew "McLovin" Perloff alluded to an article calling itself a "report" on Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers' future, that was in reality, mostly conjecture.

"That's an opinion, that's not a report," Patrick said. "When you say report, then it gets clicks. Opinion? Not as much."

"More people in this business are opinion people, not just reporting, but it's opinion. Thats where we lost our compass a little bit. You need one source or two sources, you can't just go 'I'm hearing.'"

Patrick, a communications graduate from Eastern Kentucky, pointed to the evolution in sports journalism where a rumor from a singular source gets flipped to a another story into another. These seemingly endless game of telephone can muddy the waters of what is factual and what is a rumor from one individual.

"There's a science to all of this and how you present it."