[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by bainsey

It's simple, really. A reporter's job is to report. To leave out a key fact is not doing his/her job.

As for the criminality of it all, I think Rich is dead on. If we start filing criminal charges on every excessive contact in a sporting event, I can't begin to imagine how that would change high school sports as we know it.

Some papers have editorial policies. And it has nothing to do with reporting quality. Contact them and ask them if it is that important to you. Fouler's names are rarely given in any HS game report other than who may have fouled out of a contest. If A1 win a game with 2 FTs at the final horn, B2's name as the player who sent him to the line is almost always absent. They did not black out the kid's uniform number. If a company has a policy, they expect their employees to follow that policy. And perhaps the reporter DID include the name in the submitted story and it was edited out. I don't know. You don't know. Snaqs doesn't know. Rich doesn't know. The boss may not always be right, but he's the boss.