Tuesday
Mar092010
"Are athletes now going to use social media as a form of retaliation?"
Garry Smits files an SI My Shot this week about the John Daly cell phone posting saga.
At first I was mostly amused and then a bit annoyed when the call count surpassed my usual golf score. But my main concern was the precedent. Are athletes now going to use social media as a form of retaliation? Daly posted my office cell number — in reality, no big deal. But many athletes have reporters' home numbers. Will that be the next line crossed? I would not have wanted my daughter to hear some of what her father heard. I can take it, but my child or my wife shouldn't have to.










Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 08:03 PM
Reader Comments (16)
A great majority of the "news" in general being bandied about on a daily basis(by both online and mainstream "journalists") lately seems to be of the tabloid variety, or recycled information stemming FROM a tabloid hit piece.
In those situations - why shouldn't the athelete have a platform to comment, if they choose to? It's doubtful a newspaper or magazine will give them the space to air grievances against fellow members of the media...
Anyway, watching the athlete have a hissy fit will only prolong whichever contrived "story" is currently being thrown at us...that being said - it should still be their right.
Cheers,
LK
Episodes like this are symptomatic of the funk golf has been in lately.
What a f'g joke.
Or maybe he would write just about anything to have it published by SI.
Public record is public, but Smits grabs this wet sheet and hangs it out for the whole world to see, Smits crossed the line, he made it personal.
The amusing part of all this is free speech!! New media and athletes no longer have to rely on writers to "get it right".
The one questionable point is the timing by releasing the article in the week Being John Daly premiered. That was an editorial decision to capitalize on Daly's name being in the news anyway. That is worth criticism.