Should Dwayne Haskins' blood alcohol level at the time of his death have been reported?

[Sam Mills 51]

Damn. WTF is going on with journalism when this is questioned?

Not enough on this board - or the Web, for that matter - to comprehensively answer this one (assuming it was not rhetorical).

 

[MisterCreosote]

Damn. WTF is going on with journalism when this is questioned? It's legitimate news. He was a public figure. A lot of people wondered WTF an NFL player he was doing wandering around on a busy interstate system and didn't get out of the way of a dump truck.

To be fair, it still appears that the only person questioning it is a hot-take machine with one follower on Twitter and a middle finger in his profile pic.

Let's not toss the whole industry by the wayside over this.

 

[cjericho]

Josh MVP Allen only has one follower? Is it Mr. X?

 

[Liut]

Yes, though I initially put more into the thread title than I should have ... (well, until it's confirmed by toxicology results.)

 

[HanSenSE]

But we must be sensitive to the fanbois.

 

[Mr. X]

Josh MVP Allen only has one follower? Is it Mr. X?

No.

 

[Twirling Time]

If Haskins had been stone cold sober when it happened, it would have been bigger news.

 

[Col. Nathan R. Jessup]

It is certainly news.

If Adam Schefter hadn't clumsily broken the news about Haskins dying, I think this wouldn't even be a question. But, I think, the Schefter situation put a bad taste in peoples' mouths and now weeks later we are returning to this story with bad news, the kind that paints Haskins negatively. So, I get why people say, "Just let the man Rest In Peace already!" but it doesn't change the fact that it's a public figure dying in public.