NFL expected to keep locker rooms closed as sports reporters push for a return to access

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I actually agree with a lot of this, and still think, at some point, we'll turn a corner. At least some of it will be due to what I expect to be, in a decade's time or so, a major shift on youth exposure to tech and social media. And I think we'll see a much smaller shift in how we engage celebrity, especially on Twitter. I could be wrong. I just think Twitter is in a little overvalued right now in a lot of ways.

Do you expect kids to become less reliant and less wired on tech and social media? As the father of an eight-year-old, I sure hope you're right.

 

[Alma]

Do you expect kids to become less reliant and less wired on tech and social media? As the father of an eight-year-old, I sure hope you're right.

Personally - and much of this is true conjecture, only my opinion - yes. I think public schools are going to ban phones within ten years. Maybe within five. As in, not even in the schools. And I think the child psychologists or whatever will rebrand phones and tablets an absolute scourge. Now, some of this (not all) dovetails with my own personal beliefs, but I arrived at some those beliefs based on research of what it's doing to kids.

I think it'd be a win for schools, and only a small group of parents would protest.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Personally - and much of this is true conjecture, only my opinion - yes. I think public schools are going to ban phones within ten years. Maybe within five. As in, not even in the schools. And I think the child psychologists or whatever will rebrand phones and tablets an absolute scourge. Now, some of this (not all) dovetails with my own personal beliefs, but I arrived at some those beliefs based on research of what it's doing to kids.

I think it'd be a win for schools, and only a small group of parents would protest.

That'd be great. And I'm sure my wife the English teacher would love this. But you're absolutely going to get blowback from dipshirt parents who will screech HOW CAN I GET IN TOUCH WITH JUNIOR IF AN ASTEROID HITS THE HOUSE or WHAT HAPPENS IF HE DOESN'T FEEL WELL? You'll call the forking school, or the forking nurse will call you, as it happened 30-50-100 years ago. Parents fill out emergency forms for a reason and every parent has his or her phone next to him or her at all times.

 

[tapintoamerica]

We'll see what happens. I think access could take a hard dive for awhile but, over time, bounce back as players realize having their "own channels to share their message" is a a pain in the ass all its own.

Doing media is easier than becoming your own media, as enticing (and potentially lucrative) as the latter sounds. We're in a moment - and may be for awhile - where athletes are being encouraged to turn themselves in a virtual strip mall of product endorsements and political opinions but, sooner or later, it'll wear athletes out, because it'd wear anybody out - but especially someone whose career revolves around physically taking their body to the limit.

While creating and distributing your own content can be a big nuisance, keeping The Media out is sure handy when the news is bad and unpleasant to discuss.

 

[sgreenwell]

Personally - and much of this is true conjecture, only my opinion - yes. I think public schools are going to ban phones within ten years. Maybe within five. As in, not even in the schools. And I think the child psychologists or whatever will rebrand phones and tablets an absolute scourge. Now, some of this (not all) dovetails with my own personal beliefs, but I arrived at some those beliefs based on research of what it's doing to kids.

I think it'd be a win for schools, and only a small group of parents would protest.

If schools could ban phones, they would have done so years ago. As BYH points out, it isn't the school that wants phones in the classroom.

 

[Alma]

If schools could ban phones, they would have done so years ago. As BYH points out, it isn't the school that wants phones in the classroom.

They can. It'll take some political will to do it though. And it'll take the adults getting off their phones in the schools. Some legislature will take it up, I imagine.

But there's going to be ample research, I believe, to lean on in suggesting it.

Learning would improve drastically if not a single cell phone was allowed in school. Not one. Not from a teacher, or a student, or an administrator.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I'm reading this at the end of a week in which our local school board meeting was overrun by idiot Trumpies screeching it was unconstitutional for them to have to wear masks in order to attend said meeting. There's no way you're overcoming that block of idiots declaring their precious offspring need to have their cell phones at school because the parents' "research" proves the phones help them concentrate.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

BTW the BBWAA just announced on-field access begins Monday. Hopefully the first and not the last step.

 

[daemon]

This take, in particular, is embarrassing, but predictable. And it'll come from some journalists who stand to lose needed access, as well. The industry is increasingly populated by writers over reporters, tweeters over transcribers. People don't know how - and sometimes frankly don't want - to ask questions.

The media is getting embarrassingly easy to hack. All you have to do is invoke one of the SJW pet causes and 90 percent of these activist reporters will be with you in lockstep. Diversity, mental health, domestic violence. I saw at least one MLB writer cheering on Osaka. Watch what happens to MLB beat jobs when all the MLB players decide dealing with the media every day is bad for their mental health.