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Dear dimwit on the phone

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Starman, Jan 21, 2010.

  1. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Shee-Shee will have six kids by the time she's 24 by four different guys.
     
  2. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    There's always a line. Shee-Shee may not be on the wrong side of it, but accepting shortened names does not make us honor-bound to accept anything the kid chooses to go by. What if a player declared their name was NumbahOne111!111onee!!!!EEE-leetPlayah! Jones?
     
  3. Rhody31

    Rhody31 Well-Known Member

    If that's what everyone calls the person, then that's it. If you don't, then you're providing inaccurate information.
    If you're printing Tiger Woods, and not Eldrick, then you've already established what you do and don't accept.
     
  4. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    No, you haven't.

    You've made a decision about Tiger Woods. That doesn't mean you forfeit the right to make future judgment calls.
     
  5. sgreenwell

    sgreenwell Well-Known Member

    But you have made it more difficult to defend your position when you are using nicknames.
     
  6. Boozeman

    Boozeman Member

    This.

    As I asked before, where do you draw the line? Another coach sees Shee-Shee and wants to get nicknames for his 3 or 4 players that don't like their real first name. Then another coach does the same. Where does it stop? We're a newspaper, not a team PR program. I don't care what their favorite activities are or what their grandma and grandpa call them. I just want their stats and their names.

    If I was covering Tiger Woods in high school, I'd have likely called him Eldrick. I believe I read somewhere that the NY Times stopped referring to him as Eldrick around 1997.
     
  7. WolvEagle

    WolvEagle Well-Known Member

    Stereotype much?
     
  8. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member

    Tiger also is a professional, and an adult.

    These are kids we're talking about here.
     
  9. Stitch

    Stitch Active Member

    Prove me wrong Shee-Shee.
     
  10. txsportsscribe

    txsportsscribe Active Member

    ethically? seriously?
     
  11. rtse11

    rtse11 Well-Known Member

    We go by what's in the program. If the A.D. and the school principal are OK with it, who are we to argue? (We assume they've signed off on it.)
     
  12. schiezainc

    schiezainc Well-Known Member

    Using Shee-Shee is no different than using "Shooter" or "Lucky Larry". Just because they're "known" by some piece of crap nickname does not mean you have to use it.

    I personally go with whatever is on the roster but will make exceptions if I cover a team for a while and know that "Adrian" really is known by "Addie" ... even if I'd rather punch myself in the face than acknowledge someone's ridiculous nickname.
     
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