Wednesday, September 30, 2009
I agree with James I think that sports journalist can be a athletes best friend or worst enemy. If they like you they will always talk you up and make sure you get alot of ink in there magazine or newpaper, but if you are viewed like T.O. no matter what you say i believe they will turn your words around to make you seem like you were talking bad about somebody to cause even more turmoil.. I think the media can be great at times because they about sports and creat a bigger fan base, but i think they can also hurt sports by putting a bad image on the players and teams.
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I think its important to differentiate between good journalists and bad journalists. I agree that bad journalists focused on ratings can do things like those idiots did to T.O. However good journalists are more interested in bringing their readers facts and information about players and teams.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tyler about how the media can put a good image on sport teams\players or they can put a bad image on them. The only time we hear about TO is when he is saying something negative about his team. We dont see the other side of the coin (if there is one, I'm not sure). We as fans dont know the athletes personally so we only get the bad news when it comes to certain players.
ReplyDeleteImage is a HUGE part in the professional sports, again look at TO with the eagles and with the cowboys. He obviously is a freak athlete but nobody ever wanted to be around him because of his attitude and such. And along with that comes the journalists who try and put words into peoples mouth like stated before. Like someone mentioned in class the other day when TO was being interviewed it was as if the media was trying to egg him on to say something that would end up hurting him in the end. When it comes to that point it is absolutely ridiculous.
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