Sports journalists play vital role in sports world

The role of the sports journalist in my opinion is to present all sports stories good or bad in a non bias view. Sports Journalists do play a significant role in telling us if athletes are good or bad. Although they tend to just present the facts of what is happening, journalists tend to over analyze or over show controversial new stories surrounding athlete’s specifically troubled athletes. I do believe that we should hold sports journalist’s to a certain amount of responsibility for issues such as class, race, gender, etc. Simply because they choose what they want cover and also how they are going to portray. For example look at Sports Center typically during the fall months on Saturdays and Sundays they will show the best or most dramatic football game on that happened that that day. That means in terms of equality is that they somewhat neglect the other sports specifically female sports that may have happen that day. The connection between the media and sport does have a direct correlation with athletes and their high salaries because they get fans to turn on the TV and see these high profile athletes.