{"id":201,"date":"2012-11-10T15:05:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T20:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=201"},"modified":"2012-11-10T15:05:58","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T20:05:58","slug":"it-doesnt-have-to-be-us-vs-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2012\/11\/10\/it-doesnt-have-to-be-us-vs-them\/","title":{"rendered":"It Doesn’t Have to Be Us vs. Them…"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s easy to be star struck sometimes as a journalist, no matter what the grizzled veterans of the Fourth Estate say…The first time you’re in an interview situation with the likes of Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Tiger \u00a0Woods, it’s real…I know I was…I hoped i didn’t embarrass myself or worse, draw the dreaded glare!…So when Celtics rookie first round draft pick Jared Sullinger stopped by the Boston University sports journalism seminar series recently, I could tell the students were somewhat in awe…After all, here was a guy who just started the last two games for the Celtics and he was younger than everyone in the room!…<\/p>\n

But ya know what, he was as down to earth as they come and in his time with the students, he made sure they knew he was just another regular guy, albeit a multi-millionaire, \u00a0but a person \u00a0who likes Twitter<\/a>, a guy who watches “Storage Wars”, a guy who carries a picture on his phone of the new Ohio State basketball uniforms( he secretly wished he could wear)!<\/p>\n

Athletes have always had contentious relationships with the people who cover them…Some more than others … I can tell you one thing though , no matter how long Sullinger stays in the league, he’ll be a media darling…a “go to” guy… Why?…Because he’s up front and he lets you know what he expects from you, “K-Y-P, know your personnel. \u00a0You gotta know there are certain things you can ask,,,you gotta find a side door to ask it, you can’t just come in the front door.”…which is not to say you can’t ask about key moments in the game, just do it tactfully…<\/p>\n

And don’t try and fool an athlete with a comment like “just between you and me”….With so many outlets vying for anything, someone is liable to run with anything<\/em> said, “Nothing’s off the record, we know that, said Sullinger. \u00a0There are people where you say something and they’re gonna write that, so you understand that. \u00a0In a matter of minutes it’s gonna be on the internet.”<\/p>\n

Very well spoken for a player who should be a junior in college…Obviously he learned from an early age to keep those antennae up… But those are good lessons for young journalists to learn…Whether you’re working at the high school level ,the college level or the professional level, you need something from them…Know the rules of “engagement” and you’ll get your story…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s easy to be star struck sometimes as a journalist, no matter what the grizzled veterans of the Fourth Estate say…The first time you’re in an interview situation with the likes of Larry Bird, Michael Jordan, Tiger \u00a0Woods, it’s real…I know I was…I hoped i didn’t embarrass myself or worse, draw the dreaded glare!…So when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201\/revisions\/202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}