{"id":258,"date":"2013-12-06T14:02:01","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T19:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=258"},"modified":"2013-12-06T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T19:02:01","slug":"those-were-the-days-my-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2013\/12\/06\/those-were-the-days-my-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"Those Were the Days My Friend….."},"content":{"rendered":"

With apologies to Robert Burns<\/a>, I’m not sure the Scottish poet meant his traditional New Year’s Eve chorus to be used when reviewing the sports journalism stories of the year…But as is often the case with news and sports stories, shelf life is a factor...Should auld acquaintance be forgot,\u00a0<\/em>
\nAnd never brought to mind?…In news coverage, only if it’s fresh, one might argue…<\/em><\/p>\n

The Boston Marathon Bombing in April and the Aaron Hernandez murder case in July are ongoing stories and easily classify as \u00a0top sports journalism stories for 2013…But does the longevity automatically qualify them?…How about the Manti Te’o<\/a> story that captivated us with its outrageous story lines?. \u00a0Would he possibly ever have his own Wikipedia page had it not been for his imaginary girlfriend?.. .or the bullying in Miami that trickled down to a community here in Massachusetts (\u00a0Lunenburg<\/a>)?<\/p>\n

Steve Buckley<\/a> of the Boston Herald, Jess Camerato<\/a> from Comcast SportsNet New England and Adam Kaufman <\/a>of CBS Boston joined the Boston University sports journalism seminar series this week, speaking candidly about the nuances of what makes not only a good story but one with legs, be it negative or positive…”News that happened yesterday, said Buckley, is relevant to today if you make a connection to something that’s happening today”…(Advance the story!)…<\/p>\n

We like to look back on the year and define the stories as good or bad but while it’s usually easy to do that , we have to be careful that we learn something along the way…”Accountability is different now, on Twitter there’s such a rush to get it up there first, if it’s wrong you get chastised but \u00a0people are more forgiving because you you were just trying to get it up there first, \u00a0there’s not as much criticism”, added Camerato…As someone who teaches journalism I can’t begin to understand how we’ve gotten to that point….Simply put, we shouldn’t fall back on that…<\/p>\n

What started out as a discussion of which stories were big in 2013 turned into a scrutiny of what constituted one…feel good or back page be damned…”What you need to do at some point is rid yourself of the notion that it’s positive or negative, IT’s NEWS!, offered Buckley, And if it’s news you write about it in that fashion and let the readers determine if it’s positive or negative, you just have to cover it.”<\/p>\n

We’ll save the issue of provinciality for another time but however it is that you decide, “take a cup of kindness yet”<\/em> and do it with sound journalism,,,<\/p>\n

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With apologies to Robert Burns, I’m not sure the Scottish poet meant his traditional New Year’s Eve chorus to be used when reviewing the sports journalism stories of the year…But as is often the case with news and sports stories, shelf life is a factor…Should auld acquaintance be forgot,\u00a0 And never brought to mind?…In news […]<\/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\/258"}],"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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}