steveg
Registered User
I dunno.
As a hockey player, he doesn't seem like a bad guy around the locker room and doesn't ask d*** questions. Stupid ones sure but still.
Doesn't seem to mind it when you goof on him either. I'd buy him a beer.
I understand your point here...yes, there could be worse folks with a pass to the players' locker room, such as someone who treated the players poorly. I understand what you are saying. He could be a real jerk. Fair enough.
My point though is, I believe that if you are going to be a "hockey writer," you need to have MORE knowledge about hockey than most of your readers -- that's your job. If you DON'T, then it's incumbent upon you (and you should realize this without your boss telling you so) to get yourself educated and "up to speed" regarding the sport.
I would hope that you would not hire me to be the beat writer for soccer. I know next to nothing about soccer, and you should not hire me for that job, as a result. BUT -- if you DO hire me, you can rest assured that I will immediately get MYSELF on a crash course to learn as much as I possibly can about soccer, so that I can perform my job with some level of confidence and authority. I would owe that to my employer, my readers, and myself.
I do not CARE if Rossi didn't know what an F3 was before he was hired. Fair enough. But, it bothers me that he doesn't know what an F3 is NOW -- as a long-employed hockey beat writer; however, even given that he still doesn't really know what the F3 is, it ESPECIALLY bothers me that he would write about an F3 given that he really doesn't know what one is. DO NOT discuss something you know do not know about -- because if you do, you are spreading mis-information and many un-informed people will be mis-led, as they would generally be assuming that you DID know what you were talking about. Instead, take the fact that something came up which you are not familiar with, and GO LEARN ABOUT IT, before writing an article in which you run the risk of mis-educating uninformed people (and exposing your ignorance to informed people).
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