This go-round, John Carvalho looks at how sports journalism ethics have changed as technology has changed. You can offer your thoughts as sports content readers below as well, and John will respond as appropriate. He promises to behave too. See if you can guess which ESPN personality made the following statement: “[The] principles and the […]
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Real Professors of Auburn University
The origins of those national headlines about A.J. McCarron and Katherine Webb’s wedding being a reality show? My 2 p.m. Reporting class, I suspect. And once it broke, it left me thinking about the ethics of being a university journalism professor — when to break news and when to hold it back. First, some background. […]
Columnists: They write and rant, but are they right to root?
Last week, Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy laid it down for Boston sports fans in a column titled, “Your Sports Columnist Is Here to Write, Not to Root.” (Read it quick; Globe links have a shorter life than fruit flies.) In the column, Shaughnessy makes the following statement about Boston sports teams: “I don’t care if they win. I don’t care […]
Iron Bowl Journalism, Part 2: The Bad
Part 1. Thank goodness there was not as much bad as there was good, in my opinion. I will present only two examples — because they are examples of not only bad journalism (in my opinion), but also bad trends. Here is the obvious disclaimer of being an Auburn fan and faculty member. I am […]
Iron Bowl Journalism: Who Scored and Who Missed the Play
When Chris Davis turned the corner and found open field, he not only ran his way into college football history. He also set off a media rave that extended nationwide. For those of us who were at the Iron Bowl on either side, the result is only half the stun. Almost as amazing is the […]