Desire to seek apology from player's parents

Maybe, but there's a right way and a wrong way to handle things. And I'm not eating shit sandwiches for the next 30 years. That I can promise you.

 

Again, had the parents come to me with level heads. I would have run the whole roundup bit over again. I've done it before.

But when you go above my head before even contacting me first, telling me how shitty of a job I'm doing, don't think I won't remember. I can be one bitter fuck.

OK, enough ranting about something that didn't even happen to me.

 

People really don't understand the pressure to be perfect every day with only minutes to work with. Sometimes, mistakes happen. And there's always that asshole coach, you know the one who calls in his game with five minutes left to deadline, who thinks you did it intentionally.

 

Wait, you've run an entire story over again due to a small mistake in it? Your duty is to all your readers and not to one set of upset parents. Running a whole story over again serves no purpose for all but that set of parents.

 

Not really a whole story. We get 30-40 youth soccer games that we put in our paper every week. Each one is three sentences, and we lump them all together during the course of 2-3 days. Maybe 30 inches a day near the bottom of the page. If one of those games runs twice, but it makes a parent happy, great. Nobody would ever notice.

 

Clearly, Mr. X needs a break.

Maybe he should go for a ride in a car.

 

I've always thought newspapers should invite guests into the newsroom to gain a better appreciation of the process. I figure if coaches, parents and players witnessed the chaos of a Friday night, they might have more respect for reporters.

Most visitors I've talked to are surprised the technology is so dated, the workload is as staggering and it's not anything like newsrooms they see on TV where journos have all the time in the world to plot romantic endeavors, write a page 1 expose and dream up biting witticisms all at the same time.

 

I wasted a perfectly good mouthful of Jack Daniel's on that spittake.

 

This is the worst, most unprofessional advice on this thread. If you let your personal feelings toward parents influence your choices on how you cover a team/person, you need to get out of journalism. It doesn't serve your readers and undermines your credibility.

Brush it off, Mr. X. As many have said, if this is the worst you run into, you'll have a blessed work life. If you can't handle this, you may want to reconsider your career.

 

What the fuck is wrong with you Mr. X?? Are you fucking shitting me?

You are going to keep the kid's name out of the paper because YOU fucked up?? You want the Parents to apologize because they pissed in your pot and didn't flush???? Fuck you man.

You've been in this business 13 years? Bull-fucking-Shit! That's rookie crybaby reaction.

Here's a piece of advice you little turd smoker: Grow some thick skin, or get the fuck out of journalism. Dickwad.

 

Most delusional occupations:

1) Prostitute
2) Journalist
3) Movie star

 

Reached later by phone, Mr. Holliday said his remarks were taken out of context.