Here's the way a Yahoo! Sports Editor (Yahoo? They have Sports Editors? Yahoo! is producing enough journalism to need editors?) explains why he deleted a quote by an NFL player, comparing the league to slavery:
So now the "editors" are there to protect the people being interviewed? Why not set up a PR firm on the side and offer questions in advance and let the players' reps select which parts of stories they like before they are broadcast or posted or printed?
And a second thought: When in the history of the institution of slavery has a slave been paid enormous amounts of money...multiple-millions...to play a game?
[The Monday Morning (and sometimes Tuesday afternoon) Media Memo is a regular feature of this blog.]
"I want to give him the opportunity to provide context as opposed to just running with it...I just feel like he should have been advised a little differently."Read the entire story on CBS (They DO have editors) here.
So now the "editors" are there to protect the people being interviewed? Why not set up a PR firm on the side and offer questions in advance and let the players' reps select which parts of stories they like before they are broadcast or posted or printed?
And a second thought: When in the history of the institution of slavery has a slave been paid enormous amounts of money...multiple-millions...to play a game?
[The Monday Morning (and sometimes Tuesday afternoon) Media Memo is a regular feature of this blog.]
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