Jailblazers7 wrote:Honestly, we’ve gotta stop letting reporters into the locker room. Players should get privacy to shower, dress, and decompress before hitting the podium to answer question.
This is something I've felt passionately about forever, and it's only now coming back up and I'm all like, "About freakin time..."
There was a recent news video or YouTube etc. talking about it - I guess one of the big-4's PA's wants it banned and reporters are taking the position, "You
CANT keep ups out of the Locker Room... we have
THE RIGHT!!!" I'm a Capital City police commander's son and a Penn State Political Science Major that had a few minors including History, and let me assure you - in my humble experience, like oh I don't know, 99.9% of the time you here people claiming "rights" - they either don't understand the right they're claiming or simply don't have that right whatsoever.
Some video from back in the day was attached to the YouTube thing I saw (on reporters in locker rooms etc.) and I guess a famous woman sports reporter who must have been a pioneer in women reporting sports etc, - says something like "When they ask me, 'Why do you think you can go into the locker room, why do you want to go in?" - I {her} respond: I don't WANT to go, I HAVE to go, it's *my WORKPLACE* ... it's MY
OFFICE..." === Uhh no biatch , it's THEIR workplace & office, and it belongs to the team that owns the stadium, If I owned a team, I wouldn't let them in without buying a ticket ... ain't no Free Lunches around here ... Do you have the right to send an email to a player asking for comment? Sure. If you can somehow get their phone number, should you be able to call them? I guess, until you get a response like souperdouche Rodgers who told Scheft to "Lose his number" ... just because you chose to be a Reporter as a career doesn't give you any right to bother me, contact me if I tell you I don't want to be contacted, certainly not bother me in my "workplace/office" WHEN I'M NAKED BTW...
I just don't get it. The Entitlement is strong in that occupation. And what's the worst is , these days every swining-douche with a camera phone just whips it out, sticks it in people's faces, and claims "I'M A MEMBER OF THE *MEDIA* !!!
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.. I HAVE THE RIGHT!!!
Kindly reference that 99.9% of the time not-having-said-rights. I'm with the players here. 101%