The media is angry at the Vegas twitter account | upd: Vegas apologizes, page 13, post #305

[KCbus]

I had read a little bit about this, because I follow Portsline on twitter, but I didn't understand what it was about until about two minutes ago, because the initial tweet had been deleted.

Now that I've seen it... Jesus Tapdancing Christ. THIS is what we're worrying about now?

Yes, obviously, we want our reporters to be as objective as possible. But when you cover a team every single day for an entire season (usually multiple seasons), you talk to the players and coaches and executives on a daily basis, you travel with the team, you watch all the games, and you write to a fan base that's devoted to the club... isn't it natural that you'd enjoy seeing them succeed? And sports is supposed to be the toy section of life. What, you're supposed to get the dream job of covering pro sports, and you're just never supposed to enjoy it, ever? You're not allowed to be wowed by impressive feats of athleticism and good team play?

Everyone just needs to relax.

 

[PepsiMayWest]

This entire subject deserves the mother of all eye rolls. Demanding apologies.... LOL

 

[3074326]

Wish they applied those same professional rules to the Columbus media at OSU games ;-)

I didn't get to cover any of those... but I did cover a few press conferences. Definitely some fans not being too subtle about it.. lol

 

[MikeyMike01]

There is no group of people that disgust me more than the media. Journalists are leeches that only exist because of the talents of others. I look forward to their continued destruction.

 

[HaNotsri]

There is no group of people that disgust me more than the media. Journalists are leeches that only exist because of the talents of others. I look forward to their continued destruction.

While I'm also disgusted by modern media it makes me a bit sad that real reporters that risk their life and limb to get as close to the truth as possible are bunched together with the office rats. Imagine going to a war zone armed with pen and paper? That takes some serious guts and should be respected.

 

[PepsiMayWest]

There is no group of people that disgust me more than the media. Journalists are leeches that only exist because of the talents of others. I look forward to their continued destruction.

That's a rational and well thought out opinion, can't see anything going wrong with that...

 

[nyr2k2]

You shouldn't lump together the political media muckrakers and sensationalists with the legitimate journalists who do honest reporting to shine light on genuinely important issues that otherwise go unreported or underreported. And that's ignoring overseas correspondents who risk their lives to provide us scenes and reports from the ground of some of the world's most dangerous areas. It's really unfair to use such broad strokes to generalize an entire profession.

The issue here is that these journalists genuinely try to remain impartial in their writing. They take their job seriously like the vast majority of journalists that exist outside the sphere of political pundits and correspondents. So to have some bullshit Twitter feed try to undercut your professionalism without any evidence is going to be upsetting to those affected individuals. I know a lot of people don't care if the beat writers are impartial, but the writers themselves do care and do try. It was a stupid comment from a stupid Twitter account.

 

[Hobble]

You can hear the hard on under the table by every Rogers broadcast team when doing a Leafs game, and their partial during any other game.

How any different?

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

There is no group of people that disgust me more than the media. Journalists are leeches that only exist because of the talents of others. I look forward to their continued destruction.

Who is "the media"?

 

[me2]

That tweet from Vegas is incredibly stupid on so many levels. What down thought that was funny let alone smart. The overreaction is just as bad.

 

[me2]

Who is "the media"?

Anyone with access to a broadcast medium and an opinion you don't agree with.

 

[rent free]

everyone has biases whats the big deal?

 

[ujju2]

I personally love the VGK twitter account, so I hope this doesn't result in a change of staff running it.

 

[Damisoph]

I'm actually surprised there are so many people that don't get why media would be upset about this.

 

[Halakitlikethat]

I have read some members of the press mention that these reporters could lose their press credentials for cheering in the press box. How is this so hard to understand? This is why they deleted the tweet. It’s not just some people overreacting this is their job and livelihood.

 

[Price is Wright]

You can hear the hard on under the table by every Rogers broadcast team when doing a Leafs game, and their partial during any other game.

How any different?

The Rogers broadcast team is broadcast television. It's not sports journalism. There are sports journalists in broadcast, but not everyone in broadcasting is a credential journalist.

 

[Damisoph]

You can hear the hard on under the table by every Rogers broadcast team when doing a Leafs game, and their partial during any other game.

How any different?

lol have you watched a Leaf game called by Jim Hughson?

 

[Shaffer]

Golden Knights twitter should be professional.





Media shouldn’t be soft.

 

[Price is Wright]

Golden Knights twitter should be professional.

Media shouldn’t be soft.

What's soft about being lied about?

If someone said you were sleeping in the theatre closet at your janitor job, I doubt you'd be hard about it and act like it didn't matter.

 

[Joey Moss]

I would agree that some people are just soft. There are certain things Vegas has tweeted that got bad reception and really shouldn't have.

That said, IMO the account isn't that funny. Most of the tweets are forced, they try way too hard to. Need to tone it down a bit.

 

[Shaffer]

What's soft about being lied about?

If someone said you were sleeping in the theatre closet at your janitor job, I doubt you'd be hard about it and act like it didn't matter.

Yeah I wouldn’t like it, but I wouldn’t overreact about being told I was clapping when the team I liked scored. I understand policy, and I agree with the reporters. But they overreacted.

 

[ThirdManIn]

"The media" isn't a singular entity, by the way. A more accurate title would be that members of the media are upset with having been called unprofessional, publicly, with no actual evidence to prove it.

But that's not as vitriol-inducing, right?

 

[3074326]

Yeah I wouldn’t like it, but I wouldn’t overreact about being told I was clapping when the team I liked scored. I understand policy, and I agree with the reporters. But they overreacted.

Have you ever been a reporter? I have. It really isn't your place to tell them if they've overreacted if you have no idea what the ramifications are on someone's career if they're known as a press box fan.

 

[Shaffer]

Have you ever been a reporter? I have. It really isn't your place to tell them if they've overreacted if you have no idea what the ramifications are on someone's career if they're known as a press box fan.

What are they?

 

[3074326]

What are they?

You lose your credentials. Pretty obvious.

I said earlier in this thread that when I talked with ther reporters in the CBJ press box, they ALL mentioned how big of a no-no it was.