The next major sportswriter who publishes Angel Reese's field goal percentage will be the first. The only real sports journalist out there today is Phil Mushnick.
That said, this is not really all that different from political journalism. Just that people don't want to admit that political journalists are in it for the money/power/fame just as much as the sports journalists. There isn't really any major political journalist who sees the kabuki for what it is.
Yeah when I was writing this I felt a lot of the points could be made about political journalism. Although, it's definitely way ahead of sports journalism in terms of the willingness to more thoroughly scrutinise those they report on. You just don't have that broad spectrum of journalism in sport as you do in politics.
The equivalent in sports journalism is when the New York beat writers interpret a called third strike as poor umpiring, when the Los Angeles writers praise the same umpire. They all cater to their perceived benefactors. For the national press, it's the league offices that get the slobber treatment - until there's a work stoppage, and those who write player features take the union side, and those who broadcast games take the owners.
The next major sportswriter who publishes Angel Reese's field goal percentage will be the first. The only real sports journalist out there today is Phil Mushnick.
That said, this is not really all that different from political journalism. Just that people don't want to admit that political journalists are in it for the money/power/fame just as much as the sports journalists. There isn't really any major political journalist who sees the kabuki for what it is.
Yeah when I was writing this I felt a lot of the points could be made about political journalism. Although, it's definitely way ahead of sports journalism in terms of the willingness to more thoroughly scrutinise those they report on. You just don't have that broad spectrum of journalism in sport as you do in politics.
The equivalent in sports journalism is when the New York beat writers interpret a called third strike as poor umpiring, when the Los Angeles writers praise the same umpire. They all cater to their perceived benefactors. For the national press, it's the league offices that get the slobber treatment - until there's a work stoppage, and those who write player features take the union side, and those who broadcast games take the owners.