{"id":92,"date":"2011-10-10T09:49:56","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/?p=92"},"modified":"2011-10-10T09:49:56","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:49:56","slug":"everyones-a-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/2011\/10\/10\/everyones-a-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone’s a Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Who gets to watch the watchers?”…indeed George (Cain<\/a>), who?….Is that the lone reason sports media critics exist?…so that someone can watch (and comment) on those who cover the games?…I’m not sure….Why, as sports fans, do we need to read(listen to) someone tells us what we just saw?…we have our own opinion(s)…isn’t that good enough?<\/p>\n

Boston has a long history of critics reporting on the sports media scene…Jack Craig of The \u00a0Boston Globe<\/em> invented the position with a regular column and a national voice in The Sporting News…<\/em>He was followed by Jim Baker of The Boston Herald <\/em>and over the years a host of others that have now jumped online…Bruce Allen, Dave Scott and most recently Cain and Ryan Hadfield<\/a> have taken up the mantel of those who dissect the sports landscape…But why?…As a visitor to the Boston University Sports Journalism Seminar series, Cain, who regularly contributes to Boston Sports Media Watch went on to say “It’s good to know this person is more trusted, this one is right down the middle, you’re getting the facts”….<\/p>\n

Reasonable enough methinks…but can’t we just change the channel, turn the page, switch the dial if we don’t like (agree with) whatever is being put out there?….it’s no secret sports fans love to argue, love to voice an opinion…I wonder if those who “watch the watchers” need an expertise of their own…”I was just like you guys, recounted Hadfield, I used to do yard work on Saturdays with my dad, I was like eleven years old and listen to sports talk radio and yeah I wanted to voice my own displeasure or pleasure with whatever was going on in the media at that time.”…Is that all it takes?….apparently…that and a platform…<\/p>\n

I’ll be honest…as someone who was regularly roasted and toasted by the sports media critics i may be too close to the issue…or maybe i’m just trying to get even!…. but just stick to the cardinal rule – tell me something i don’t already know…<\/p>\n

And finally, on a totally unrelated subject, if you will remember, two weeks ago i talked (in class) \u00a0about one of the keys to being successful in whatever endeavor you choose, be it a journalist or not, was to find the one thing you do better than anyone else….I repeat, you may not know what that is but there is something inside you that you just do instinctively better….let me offer for your perusal, the case of Stephen Wiltshire<\/a>…i think this makes my point….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Who gets to watch the watchers?”…indeed George (Cain), who?….Is that the lone reason sports media critics exist?…so that someone can watch (and comment) on those who cover the games?…I’m not sure….Why, as sports fans, do we need to read(listen to) someone tells us what we just saw?…we have our own opinion(s)…isn’t that good enough? Boston […]<\/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\/92"}],"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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}