NY Times: Examining Fans' Rights to Jeer at Games

[grunewar]

I believe a Congressional Inquiry is needed!

Let's start some hearings!

[Bad Zebra]

Originally Posted by grunewar

I believe a Congressional Inquiry is needed!

Let's start some hearings!

As much as this is meant to be a joke, how disturbing is it that the ACLU is actually mentioned in the article?

[amusedofficial]

The pontificating from the Times was dismal. They should have done a bit of reporting, rather than just make assumptions based on Twitter and the braying of people tossed from the arena. A good reporter would have asked the question that still begs an answer -- were these clowns interfering with the officials interaction with the table?

Maybe I missed it, and I miss a lot (ask any coach or parent) but I don't see anything approaching a reprimand over anything other than the failure to follow "protocol" in the manner in which the ejection was effected. Sports reporters are notoriously lousy journalists, just watch how they are cowed by coaches and managers in news conferences and are too intimidated to ask follow-up questions.

But I would have expected the Times to have asked the people at the table something more than whether the two "used vulgarity."


Moreover, this nonsense about the whiners being among NC State's "all-time greats" is as irrelevant as irrelevant can be. Doesn't matter if its an all-time great or a mascot, when you gotta go, you gotta go.