Blogger Bashers Rejoice

The NY Islanders have opened their "Blog Box," allowing bloggers to view the game from their own press area, giving them access to the home locker room and the chance to ask questions of players and coaches after home games.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/writers/richard_deitsch/10/08/islanders.bloggers/

As someone who has defended the idea of increased media access to bloggers, it's with a heavy heart I must report that according to SI.com, several of them mingled with the working media during postgame interviews while wearing Islanders jerseys:

 

Since they were "encouraged to cheer" by the Islanders, why would you expect them not to wear jerseys?

 

Self-respect?

 

But this wouldn't even occur to them, since most don't even desire to appear objective.

Objectivity is a relatively recent construct in the media anyway, if we remember history.

Pendulum swinging the other way? I'm just thinking out loud here.

 

Team blogs are kind of like Fox News. You go there knowing you're getting one side of the story.

 

You obviously haven't met Alan Colmes and Geraldo Rivera.

 

Are you saying that every blogger who writes about the Islanders is drinking the Kool-Aid? I'm sure at least a few of them have made some cracks about the backup goalie becoming GM or the starting goalie getting a 15-year contract, right?

 

No clue, Ben. Don't read the Islanders team blogs. But most team blogs give you the perspective of, say, a Bears fanboy. Not saying anything is wrong with that, either.

 

As one who spent half his college years witnessing firsthand Bob Hammel as Bob Knight's water boy and most of his staff outwardly cheering at Indiana games, and as one who has read many threads on this here board about fanboy newspaper, TV and radio reporters, I would caution anyone that while it may be fair to trash specific bloggers for being blatant fans, it would not be fair to conclude that bloggers should be trashed just for being bloggers because many are homers, while "legitimate" reporters are not.

 

Agreed, Bob. But in this, and all cases, jerseys = homers.

 

Sigh ... desperate marketing ploy ... some things will never change in hockey.

 

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