Trevor Bayne/Daytona 500: Cheering in the Press Box

Racists.

 

Wrong thread.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/81667/

 

Dammit.

 

....or Mexican media at a soccer game that involves the Mexican National Team.

 

Agreed that the "no cheering" thing is a decidedly American/Canadian virtue. But let's put this in another context.
I, like a lot of my liberal media friends, voted in the 2008 presidential election. I, like some of my liberal media friends, ended up helping out in our election coverage. I was at the election headquarters of a notable Republican senator when it was announced that Obama had won the election.
I voted for him. I understood the importance of the moment.
I did not cheer. And neither did anybody else. And I'm imagining there was no cheering from the media in Chicago at Obama's rally or booing in the media center at McCain's rally (save perhaps for the fine folks at Fox Noise).
Why? Because it could have been construed as bias. Two, because you just don't do it.
I understand the Daytona 500 is not on the same level as a presidential election, but a high school football game isn't the Super Bowl, yet we treat (or should treat) both the same when it comes to our journalistic integrity. Don't clap. At least until you get home.

 

Tom Bowles was on with Steve Mason and John Ireland on ESPN 710 in Los Angeles yesterday. I didn't hear the interview, but from hearing the hosts talk after the fact, it seemed pretty clear that Bowles is definitely still more defiant than chastised and humbled.

 

Oddly enough, I was covering McCain that night from his "victory party." Nope, no one in the media cheered... but then, McCain's people killed the audio on the big screens the moment Obama began his acceptance speech.

As a side note, McCain's election staffers were the dumbest people I have ever encountered on the job.

 

Can you take the high road after you've been black-flagged?

 

I heard it...the first 10 minutes or so, then I got bored. My first thought was "this is an awful lot of inside baseball for 4 pm on a Thursday, the hour when that show gets by far the highest number of listeners." My second thought was, "the kid went to Syracuse, as he kept reminding us every third sentence. So no wonder he doesn't know ethics. Shoulda gone to Mizzou."

When I turned it back 15 minutes later, I was a bit surprised to hear Mase & Ireland throwing their guest under the bus...but when he stuck to his "I did no wrong" guns, well, he deserved the scorn.

Amateur.

 

Sounds like Bowles doesn't know when to shut up.

 

I certainly don't know, but to me, this feels like one of those sickening situations we've all experienced where you talk yourself into a situation, and you just keep talking and getting yourself in deeper, and at some point, there's really no way out except to just stop talking, but you can't help yourself -- and maybe you're trying to convince yourself -- and on it goes.

 

There's literally thousands of young folks trying to make it in this business who would do anything to be in Bowles' position, including myself. Throughout this whole process, I'm absolutely shocked at how he's conducted himself and blown a wonderful opportunity.

Yet I'm sure Bowles will get a job somewhere making twice what I do.

He's from <snicker> Syracuse, after all.