Erin Andrews and the Cubs locker room: Discuss

With the way ESPN craves PR, they may encourage Erin Andrews to wear a halter top and hot pants, figuring that would get more columnists than Nadel responding.

 

buck, I admire your integrity. I'm not quite so sure about your journalistic instincts on this one.

 

Yeah, I took that last line out.

I just automatically distrust when media members use their platform to pass judgment on how other people in the media act in a clubhouse, no matter how much of a "celebrity" they are. We've all seen bad behavior -- if it bothers you, then say something to them. Or let it go.

 

Yes, whatever you do, don't tell the <i>readers</i> about it.

 

The same old bacon on this board, fizzing and sputtering in its own fat and grease.

 

Smasher, I thought it made Nadel appear just as unprofessional as he thought Andrews acted.

 

You do understand that this took place in the clubhouse, and not the press box. Her interaction with the players is the point of the column. He did not eavesdrop, did not peek through a crack in the door.

I can't see any way to apply the word "unprofessional" to the column.

 

It came off as petty, IMO. Petty > unprofessional as a word choice? I can live with that. Either way, I didn't like it.

 

I disagree.... If I think my readers will be interested in it, I'm running it.

 

That's because we, as a profession, would rather cut our forefinger off than point it at ourselves.

Very thin-skinned, defensive bunch, especially considering the ridiculous (and, judging by this board, hypocritical) standards to which we hold the people we cover.

 

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It was a weak column/blog. Perhaps it was intended as something along the lines of what the headline suggests it is, but it really doesn't read that way.

Not even addressing my opinion of this piece as a story/column idea, there just is not enough connection made between the pedestrian, AP-style game stuff, and Andrews' presence in the clubhouse, and there is not enough analysis of the reasons for, and reactions to, the Cubs' recent turnaround.

Moreover, this back-and-forth discussion and all these various hits-and-misses of any intended point to the original story would have been both helped, and minimized, with one simple sentence.

Andrews declined to comment.

Or, something along those lines, if not at least one direct quote from her addressing the topic(s). I mean, did Andrews have any idea, at all, that this column/blog was going to come out?

As it is written, this piece -- on a potentially explosive topic, from what possibly could be construed as a sexist point of view, and veiled in implied-but-otherwise-unsupported innuendo without any context -- fairly cries out for a comment from Andrews. Or, at least, an assurance that some attempt was made to get one.

Even if the writer is a columnist/blogger.

Otherwise, neither is being what he/she should be first and foremost: a journalist.