Shaughnessy: "We now have a bad connection"

So the way to solve limited access is to limit access even further?

 

Which is it?

 

But if you are one of the 10-20 your access is much greater.

 

I don't know the answer.

But in thinking about this more... I think the Billy Wagner dust-up a couple weeks ago was a real-world bubble up of this very issue.

Wagner is known to be media-friendly-- a go-to if you're desperate.

He was being interviewed by a horde on a night he didn't play, then said why the hell are you interviewing me.

You get the idea he's sick of being the go-to guy for a quote-desperate media. You get the feeling NONE of the other Mets talk much at all-- much ever.

 

Well bully for the major media outlets. And that's not necessarily true. In fact, it's not even probably true. Instead of 30 reporters getting a tepid reception in the clubhouse, you'd have 10-20.

 

Well, then. If you're still a sports journalist, I'd like you to turn in your press card and get to work covering fatality accidents. Clearly you're not needed at the ballpark.

Sorry...reporters contribute a lot of stuff readers enjoy that go beyond gamers. And to claim that readers don't care about an athlete as a person...I call B.S.

 

350 yards, splitting the fairway

 

Alley - I'm not a reporter. I have a family to feed.

 

Not saying it is the solution, but with everyone bemoaning the current situation, I was just looking at what a "solution" might look like.

 

The proper thing would have been for Tom Werner's company to hire John Canzano, while letting Dan Shaugnessy's daughter go to work for Paul Allen's radio station.

[Absolute, glaring, ongoing conflicts of interest, undermining the ethics of those writers and their newspapers. No matter how Dan's daughter procured the gig.]

 

There is conflict of critical thought all over this thread.

 

I agree that if the daughter went to work for Werner, then Mr. Shaughnessy needs to make the disclosure, or even recuse himself from coverage.

But since the poster offers no evidence, and then contradicts himself, I'm not sure how much of this I'm prepared to believe. Does Mr. Shaughnessy's daughter work for Werner? In what capacity? Was she paid? Did she intern there one summer? Is this widely known? Were the editors aware of this, and sign off on it? Or not?

Just curious.