That’s not true at all. But it depends on who you’re talking about.

Local journalists are great when it comes to covering local teams.

There’s one website that Yahoo! constantly has on their homepage with the most ridiculous clickbait titles I’d ever seen. No real journalism. Just pure fantasy speculation used to drive views. It drives me bonkers that it probably works.

Oh…this isn’t true at fucking all. The amount of upvotes you’re receiving is frankly depressing cause media literacy is shit these days. I know so many small time guys who actually put in the work and check sources and are careful in their reporting while making dickall.

Podcasts ≠ print journalism in terms of rules. People confuse the two now though even though actual hard sports journalists keep saying do not take this as reporting.

TBF the vast majority of sports media are not real journalists.

Whenever I see comments like this on Reddit I genuinely don’t understand what they’re trying to say. Which is weird because they usually have hundreds to thousands of upvotes, so other Redditors must understand what they’re saying.

Are you saying that sports reporters aren’t “real journalists” and therefore they shouldn’t be allowed to use anonymous sources?

Or that “real journalists” don’t use anonymous sources and therefore sports reporters using anonymous sources makes them not “real journalists”?

A lot of them are real journalist, they are just on tv which participating in shows which isn’t the same as journalism.

Yea like Dave Mcminamin is so far up Lebron’s ass i wouldn’t be surprised if LeBron’s team just sends him
The statements he wants put out

I mean it’s easy to understand his frustration.

This fuggin guy.

IMO he was too trusting of that front office. He thought his ten years of service earned him loyalty and he doesn’t want to believe they would snake him like that. But it’s very obvious

I haven’t either

At least, not the one you are referring too 🤣🤣

Comparing front office interns to deep throat is quite a stretch

This sub has millions of people bro. It’s not a monolith of people in agreement

It’s always so funny to me that Redditors on the sports subs always imply that “war journalism” has better sourcing and ethics than sports journalism when in reality “war reporting”, is by far, the area with the most bias, the lowest standards, and the most falsehoods.

This is what he is spot on about. It’s one thing to be a source, it’s sleazy to slander someone anon to the world.

The Cowherd quote wasn’t that he was a disease, it was a descriptive way of saying that his ego has grown a lot and he now thinks he’s the smartest person in the room and doesn’t want to listen to people. The word disease pretty clearly seemed to be describing how they were saying that it’s gotten worse.

Who live and die by clicks and traffic metrics. You have a system that rewards lying for engagement.

I mean yes, if they aren’t credible then you should ignore them. Reporters are not making up anonymous sources to hide sharing their opinion. Bobby Marks absolutely had a source, and he shared it because it was shocking and interesting, that’s the point of reporting something.

Maybe some tv/radio hosts are doing it, but they aren’t exactly reporters and they lie or embellish all the time about all kinds of things. Anyone who takes SAS at his word is kind of a sucker.

Good god, it is not very easy to do that at any reputable media organization. There is a process for these things. Stop pulling stuff out of your ass

That’s you trust journalists with good reputations

I honestly think Americans would ban journalism if they could

This only sounds ridiculous because you’re making it up. Imagine an actual human being working in the NBA community saying something negative about LeBron James. Yes, they might want to remain anonymous.

It sounds ridiculous until you remember LeBron and his representatives are known for contacting individuals and telling them not to speak on him even  when recanting stories. The NBA is a massive league  and many people will try to get others fired/punished, I’ve seen people try to get others fired over much less at a minimum wage jobs. People would absolutely use this type of info to get others in trouble throughout the league, the quotes about brown suddenly become a lot worse if we find out the source is Brad Steven’s or his right hand manz

In this case these people aren’t real journalists, they’re “journalists” and their “sources” often hide behind that title and the anonymity it grants them to take cheap shots at players/people within their organisation/in other organisations. In this case they are firing shot after shot at JB to justify trading him at the expense of his character. It’s cowardly to be frank

What about Stephen A Smith and Colin Cowherds career makes anyone believe they are too scared to directly criticize Jaylen Brown? Am I on the wrong planet?

And yes, it is the job of a reporter to sort through the convos with insiders and decide what is exaggerated or ad hominem, and what is actually newsworthy, but if someone is a shit journalist, then call them a shit journalist liar, don’t act like it’s the anonymity that’s the problem because it isn’t.

It’s basically just gossip…honestly a lot of sports “journalism” is just gossip.

Actual sports journalism is what Pablo Torre does.

Its professionalized gossip. Source safety has its place but what “talking head” phenomenon has created is people taking shots at guys surreptitiously throught veiled reporting.

This is sports. Tell me about trades. Dont narrate people’s contracts and livelihoods under the guise of journalism.

These anonymous sources are hardly whistleblowers that need to be protected. This isn’t journalism. It’s closer to reality tv. They’re just weaving their own agenda and propaganda and using these blowhard “journalist” as their puppet and mouthpiece.

Brad stephens should talk about Jaylen Brown’s ego directly at his press conference if they feel this way.

Sports is one thing, there is a lot more important things than sports that get reported on. That’s why this rule applies.

If you say something harmful or false, it does harm the journalist repuitation, unless they’re not a fucking journalist and they are Stephen A Smith and the whole outrage cycle is the point.

dude needs to stop grouping together bobby marks and stephen a just because marks said one thing he felt insulted by, clearly he was fucking right and JB was not valued highly by the league.

Unfortunately the death of reputable journalism and rise of clickbait journalism has lead to this. Keeping sources anonymous is considered a right for a reason: historically it’s been to protect vulnerable people from retribution. Now that anyone who pays for twitter or bum with a substack can get a “story” out faster than an ethical news source has time to fact check, anonymous sources can be weaponized from anything from being completely made up, some random guy without any provable connection, or shit like talking to children without parental consent which there’s been a shocking rise of.

This is a multi billion dollar business where people make a living. It’s not just a sport.

I guess u could have asked marks to have had some commentary in there about “it did seem a little tongue in cheek” but if its true and controversial and he had a front office guy tell him that directly, why shouldnt he report it.

I think its extremely easy to believe one guy out there likes his spreadsheets enough to say JB would be their 7th best player based on RAPM or whatever, and I imagine he wouldn’t have reported it if it was an outlier, but based on the actual material return for JB I think he was totally vindicated, and he was trying to convey that the league is way lower than the media on him.

Where did this idea that the source said him having confidence in himself was a disease come from? He said the problem was that Brown thought was smarter than everyone else and because of that wouldn’t listen to people within the organization like his teammates.

It’s a pretty common saying. I have no idea how you think it’s racist.

But to say that’s a bigoted comment or attack on his character…

I heard he taught at Oxford.

Wonder if they’re Oakleys

I don’t follow his streams or watch his interviews, but I’m starting to wonder if there isn’t substance to some of the criticism about his personality, which is ironic in the context of his comments here.

Throwing fuel on what fire? The people who actually watch his stream are likely fans and like they get to interact with him. It’s only bitter fucks on reddit who seem to take every hit piece that comes out as gospel.

Also what else should he do? It’s not like being quiet has stopped any of the noise coming out.

Bulk of the damage to his character is coming from him, and he’s oblivious.

Funny, I could’ve sworn it said that Jaylen called for MEDIA to stop using anonymous sources … Not specifically Colin.

Which ironically was not from an anonymous source (the hack known as Cowherd said it publicly edit: quoting two anonymous GMs)

Edit: Correction by NeverNotOnceEver.