Comments on: Why Mariotti is Right http://sportsmediajournal.com/2009/06/30/why-mariotti-is-right/ Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:24:32 +0000 hourly 1 By: jvwalt http://sportsmediajournal.com/2009/06/30/why-mariotti-is-right/comment-page-1/#comment-2504 jvwalt Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:36:33 +0000 http://sportsmediajournal.com/?p=1309#comment-2504 My problem with Mariotti is the absolute hypocrisy. As others have pointed out, he's got his own history of rumor-mongering -- when he was a print journalist, no less. Now that he's effectively a blogger himself, he's criticizing other bloggers for doing what he did as a newspaper columnist. My problem with Mariotti is the absolute hypocrisy. As others have pointed out, he’s got his own history of rumor-mongering — when he was a print journalist, no less. Now that he’s effectively a blogger himself, he’s criticizing other bloggers for doing what he did as a newspaper columnist.

]]> By: Brian http://sportsmediajournal.com/2009/06/30/why-mariotti-is-right/comment-page-1/#comment-2500 Brian Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:35:00 +0000 http://sportsmediajournal.com/?p=1309#comment-2500 So if a guy sits at a bar or in the stadium and tells everyone stuff he thinks and he's off the mark, it's OK. If he buys a domain and writes about it and is off the mark, he all of a sudden should be vetting his sources? Leitch and Deadspin are one thing. That's a media company. This is a guy who set up his own blog called "Midwest Sports Fans." Not Midwest Sports Investigative Reporters. Not Midwest Drug Testers. Midwest Sports Fans. Once guys like Mariotti start equating bloggers with the dudes at the bar, they will get it. Some are right. Some are idiots. Some are in between. But getting your BVDs in a bunch without trying to distinguish these differences just makes you look like as big of a fool as the ones who have no clue what they are talking about. Besides, the notion of Jay Mariotti chastising people for not doing legwork is just comical. For someone who likes to preach about journalistic basics, he has nowhere in any of his bios where he did anything other than work as a columnist, i.e. free from the bonds of doing anything other than pontificating. So if a guy sits at a bar or in the stadium and tells everyone stuff he thinks and he’s off the mark, it’s OK. If he buys a domain and writes about it and is off the mark, he all of a sudden should be vetting his sources?

Leitch and Deadspin are one thing. That’s a media company. This is a guy who set up his own blog called “Midwest Sports Fans.” Not Midwest Sports Investigative Reporters. Not Midwest Drug Testers. Midwest Sports Fans.

Once guys like Mariotti start equating bloggers with the dudes at the bar, they will get it. Some are right. Some are idiots. Some are in between. But getting your BVDs in a bunch without trying to distinguish these differences just makes you look like as big of a fool as the ones who have no clue what they are talking about.

Besides, the notion of Jay Mariotti chastising people for not doing legwork is just comical. For someone who likes to preach about journalistic basics, he has nowhere in any of his bios where he did anything other than work as a columnist, i.e. free from the bonds of doing anything other than pontificating.

]]> By: SoxAddict http://sportsmediajournal.com/2009/06/30/why-mariotti-is-right/comment-page-1/#comment-2498 SoxAddict Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:02:32 +0000 http://sportsmediajournal.com/?p=1309#comment-2498 Oh, and whoever is posting those 'unconfirmed steroid lists' is a moron anyway. The problem is half as much the person posting it, and half as much the idiots that read those sites knowing that they could be getting bad information. Oh, and whoever is posting those ‘unconfirmed steroid lists’ is a moron anyway. The problem is half as much the person posting it, and half as much the idiots that read those sites knowing that they could be getting bad information.

]]> By: SoxAddict http://sportsmediajournal.com/2009/06/30/why-mariotti-is-right/comment-page-1/#comment-2497 SoxAddict Tue, 30 Jun 2009 19:00:51 +0000 http://sportsmediajournal.com/?p=1309#comment-2497 Ken Rosenthal is an idiot. Wait until the trade deadline approaches and see how many articles he posts that he will later have to rescind because the trade fell through or ended up not happening but he wasn't privy to that information. Everyone makes mistakes but the fact that his title has 'Fox Sports' in it makes him seem to think he's better than everyone else. I'm pretty sure it was him that posted an article last year saying 'the trade deadline has passed with no significant moves' blah blah. Then it came out that Manny Ramirez had been dealt a minute before August 1st. Do people attack his face because he was speculating that nothing had been done because he hadn't heard about it? Ken Rosenthal is an idiot. Wait until the trade deadline approaches and see how many articles he posts that he will later have to rescind because the trade fell through or ended up not happening but he wasn’t privy to that information. Everyone makes mistakes but the fact that his title has ‘Fox Sports’ in it makes him seem to think he’s better than everyone else.

I’m pretty sure it was him that posted an article last year saying ‘the trade deadline has passed with no significant moves’ blah blah. Then it came out that Manny Ramirez had been dealt a minute before August 1st. Do people attack his face because he was speculating that nothing had been done because he hadn’t heard about it?

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