Reporter defends officials

[grunewar]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

It's about how Portland is perceived across the nation.

I have relatives in Philadelphia and have been to many a game there......

Nuf sed.

[26 Year Gap]

Isn't 'Jail Blazers' one of the terms used to describe the team? Or wasn't it in the past? Maybe this reporter heard Colin Cowherd on the radio the other day.

[WreckRef]

Originally Posted by 26 Year Gap

Isn't 'Jail Blazers' one of the terms used to describe the team? Or wasn't it in the past? Maybe this reporter heard Colin Cowherd on the radio the other day.

Yes, Jail Blazers was the term that used to describe the team of the past. It did in fact fit with the players on their roster. We had Bonzi Wells, Shawn Kemp, Darius Miles, Rasheed Wallace, J. R. Rider...do I need to keep going?

Luckily, management shipped out all of those guys (Darius Miles being the last) and now they not only have quality players but more importantly, quality people.

[jbduke]

Could the mods be a little more stringent in monitoring fair use? Lots of things get posted here in their entirety, rather than just summarizing and linking.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but my brother is a newspaper reporter who was just given a mandatory two-week furlough this year, so I'm pretty sensitive on this issue.

[icallfouls]

Originally Posted by jbduke

Could the mods be a little more stringent in monitoring fair use? Lots of things get posted here in their entirety, rather than just summarizing and linking.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but my brother is a newspaper reporter who was just given a mandatory two-week furlough this year, so I'm pretty sensitive on this issue.

You do know that newspapers are dying out right? They have been for nearly a decade or more. We cannot help when people make bad career choices. Maybe Obama could help him out, I hear that he is giving away lots of money right now.

[26 Year Gap]

Originally Posted by icallfouls

You do know that newspapers are dying out right? They have been for nearly a decade or more. We cannot help when people make bad career choices. Maybe Obama could help him out, I hear that he is giving away lots of money right now.

The Seattle paper just quit the print edition a few weeks ago.

[icallfouls]

BTW, the guy should be happy to still have a job rather than a little extra unpaid vacation time. How sensitive can you get? I am sure that there are plenty of people that would trade places and take a furlough or even a pay cut to ensure they can still feed their families, or have a roof over their head.

[amusedofficial]

Originally Posted by icallfouls

You do know that newspapers are dying out right? They have been for nearly a decade or more. We cannot help when people make bad career choices. Maybe Obama could help him out, I hear that he is giving away lots of money right now.

This is monumentally stupid. First, newspapers were relatively stable for a long time and only in the past few years have we started to hear of major market dailies suspending publication. Second, without newspapers, the Internet would have very little news since Internet news sites do very little reporting and generally rely on the pencil press to do the legwork. Finally, becoming a reporter is not necessary a "bad career choice;" it's actually a pretty good career choice, but we are now in an era when the way people get their news has changed, only time will tell whether the public is willing to support newsgathering, or prefers news blogging that is low on fact and high on emotion.

[jbduke]

Originally Posted by icallfouls

You do know that newspapers are dying out right? They have been for nearly a decade or more. We cannot help when people make bad career choices. Maybe Obama could help him out, I hear that he is giving away lots of money right now.

How completely appropriate that someone so incomprehensibly ill-informed--and therefore in such dire need of high-quality reporting--would go so far out of his way to dump on professional journalism (one of the most noble of professions) and its most important medium.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by jbduke

How completely appropriate that someone so incomprehensibly ill-informed--and therefore in such dire need of high-quality reporting--would go so far out of his way to dump on professional journalism (one of the most noble of professions) and its most important medium.

I thought that the most important medium of professional journalism was bathroom walls. That's where I get most of my information.

[Camron Rust]

Originally Posted by jbduke

How completely appropriate that someone so incomprehensibly ill-informed--and therefore in such dire need of high-quality reporting--would go so far out of his way to dump on professional journalism (one of the most noble of professions) and its most important medium.

You forgot the .

While a few newspapers may have something like high-quality reporting, most are not worth the paper they're printed on. I haven't bought a paper in over 10 years. There is good journalism out there, but it is rarely found in your local newpaper.