I once said something personally disparaging about one of our players when he transferred (very early in Norm's regime). I felt bad about it afterwards. I realized that no matter what is going on with the team or a player, I should not attack personally. It bothers me when posters lodge personal attacks at the players and coaches, rather than objectively criticizing their work. It is especially bad and uncalled for coming from a reporter.
His job is not to objectively weigh things, that's a judge. He's just going to pass along what he hears. And, maybe occasionally, throw in his own opinion.
That's reporting. Some people think coach Lavin is getting lazy in his recruiting, that's news whether we want to hear it or not. It doesn't have to be true.
He's not saying it's a fact that Lavin is lazy, but that other people think that and have told him that.
It doesn't have to be true? I'm not a journalist but that doesn't sound right to me.
No, because he's reporting that people think Lavin has gotten lazy.
Half the reporters in town are writing stories about how people in my neighborhood think debasio purposefully screwed us and sent extra plows to Staten Island. Does that make it true ?
No.
They're just reporting on the perception of people on the UES.
Listen , I understand what you're saying - and in some contexts it's obviously a good virtue. Actually I'm going to try to remember that for my own posts on here. But in terms of what's written in the paper, if sources are telling zach that...then that's the story. And it's not dirty, it's just a story.
The better question for us on here is probably why are sources telling reporters that our coach is lazy? Is it spiteful coaches who were passed over? Or is it observers who never see him around anymore? Just because the allegations haven't been proven doesn't mean they're false.