Hoops

Creek claims AFL stuff out of context, journo posts audio

Yeah, a journalist wants to keep his reputation. Now officially a dog! Or could apply for a job at Herald Scum in Melbourne. Perfect!

Karma's a bitch when it bites.

I jokingly call the Advertiser the "Crow-vertiser" because of the constant Crows stories throughout the year (even in the off season) The sports section is dominated by the attention. In the paper of Thu 6-Mar-14. AFL fills 7 pages (back pages as well), Cricket 1.86 pages, Soccer 1 page, Racing 1 pages, WNBL 70% of a page, bowls 25% of a page, Paraolympics 16% of a page, NRL 15% of a pageBaseball 14% of a page, Surfing 10%, netball 10%.

So I think that accounts for 56% of the coverage being on a sport that is actually in its off-season at the moment.

Mike Moore, Frontline, wrote the book on journalism

"A work is not a series of answers, it is a series of questions.....it is not the answer that enlightens, but the questions." Eugene Ionesco

(One time I asked tennews to hold the story for 24hours and they did. Two days later she came back and said to me; " We held the story as you asked , but every other tvnews ran it on the same nite that we did, so you have to give us the exclusive next time.")

SS, Commas are everything. For example:

"Let's eat, Grandpa" vs "Let's eat Grandpa"

KET, it was pretty much matter of fact. "if I was paid $1M to dig holes for 8 hours a day.."

Media training is important!

Remember years ago in the days of wet film cameras, there would be the staged shot for the story then the old trick of "we've just a few photos left of them film. It'll be a tragedy to waste them, how about a few fun shots?" Guess which ones were always used!

The media angle the journo wants to take is so important. Some years ago someone wanted to do a feature article on myself for work purposes and I reluctantly agreed. He was a huge baseball fan and asked if I played, or was a fan. I casually mentioned I had played a single game of junior baseball for one of the district clubs as a fill in in the 70's and at my only bat I was hit, had a walk to first, but brought 3rd base home. Naturally, that was the focus on the article. I felt a bit like the great Bob Neil. (i'm not worthy)

A footy journo will always have a different angle from that of a basketball journo.

"As someone that works in the basketball "media" I can say there's certainly an off the record."
That just means you don't attribute, though, not that you don't publish, doesn't it? Otherwise what would be the point?

That, and it only exists if the journalist in question is ethical enough to respect it. Of course, one who isn't quickly stops getting the more sensitive information, so it's certainly a good idea even just for pragmatic reasons.

Its one of the advantages of the NCAA system.

Athletes go under intense media training.

It appears nothing of the like happens here.

As someone that works in the basketball "media" I can say there's certainly an off the record.

Whenever I interview/chat with anyone if we are talking about something that I feel could be private I ask if it's off or on the record. A lot of players/coaches/reps even say to me "on the record" and answer the question then say "off the record" and expand on the answer if its sensitive info.

I understand why he posted the audio, still I think it's poor form.