The Anti-Media Media

[Gmanc711]

Originally Posted by FRPLG

So apparently "journalists" are too good to sit in a press box with us regular folk! This just shows the smugness and superiority complex of today's so called "journalists". This is not just an issue with sports writers but with "jorunalists" in general. Seems they in general think they know better, do better and are better than the rest of us regular people.

I understand where they are coming from with the cheering in the pressbox. I've had the chance to cover a couple (minor league) games and the number one rule told to me by everyone was that you dont cheer in the pressbox. Thats why I dont know if I could achive a dream of covering the Redskins. I honestly dont think I could sit in there and be professional.

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Gmanc711

I understand where they are coming from with the cheering in the pressbox. I've had the chance to cover a couple (minor league) games and the number one rule told to me by everyone was that you dont cheer in the pressbox. Thats why I dont know if I could achive a dream of covering the Redskins. I honestly dont think I could sit in there and be professional.

My father had the chance to go to a Skins game and was a guess of a friend who was a guess of Jerry Jones. He sat in the owners box and watch the most exciting game he had ever seen as the Skins hit Aikmen in the end zone he fumbled and we recovered for a TD in the last minutes of the game (I think the game was in the mid 80's). My father could only sit there and watch as RFK was shaking from all the cheering fans. It was pretty cool because he sat beside Clarence Thomas and he has a pix with him and you can see the band playing on the field durn half time.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by Gmanc711

I understand where they are coming from with the cheering in the pressbox. I've had the chance to cover a couple (minor league) games and the number one rule told to me by everyone was that you dont cheer in the pressbox. Thats why I dont know if I could achive a dream of covering the Redskins. I honestly dont think I could sit in there and be professional.

They're fans. It is not their job to be unbiased. They are reporting for a fan site for fans. Just because the other journalists have to appear unbiased doesn't mean they should have to also. I think they're taking themselves too seriously if they honestly think the press box must be this bastion of anti-bias and "honesty". If they can't deal with a little competiton then their insecurities show right through. It's not like the fan sit reporters are pawning themselves off as unbiased. That would be a problem.