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Irrelevant. Descriptive response to a normative comment. It's one thing to say someone <i>would</i> get suspended for saying something. It's another to say someone <i>should</i> get suspended for saying something. Setting aside the actual state of the world, journalists presumably believe in a culture that promotes open dialogue.

 

Call me a realist.

 

Good lord, are you for real? If you have a beef against your employer, or hell, anyone, for that matter, you take it behind closed doors or at least a somewhat more intimate setting than the whole damn Internet. It's called a place and a time and a method for things. It's called maturity.

Sorry, but Stain already has the Spock role on the board cinched, and he at least has a sense of humor.

 

So you, as a journalist, prefer a world where sources lie and dodge questions? As Dan points out, tweeting to the "whole damn Internet" is the equivalent of speaking at a press conference where journalists will report what you say to the "whole damn Internet".

 

I'd prefer the guy to be injected with a truth agent and for me to have access to him for an hour. I'm saying it sure in the hell isn't wise for him to tweet like that, so as a human being I'd tell him unless he wants to fuck up his life to stop doing something that stupid.

 

Our next question:
"Coach, for the record, are you some kind of asshole?"

 

If you were covering that team and the player made those statements to you in an interview, would you, as a human being, not publish them?

 

As a Moc, I'll just say that the player was 100 percent accurate and the T-FP needs to hire him as a columnist.

 

Of course I'd publish them ... and then I'd say, "Man, that guy is stupid and probably should suspended," which is what I said in the first place.

 

The Stoops coaching brothers want to know what this thread has to do with them.

 

The drug dealer calls for his clients to be arrested...

If this athlete was asked about his relationship with his coach, what are his options?

• Answer honestly to someone who will use his words to call for his suspension
• Lie
• Say no comment, because he understands how broken this exercise is

 

Answer like an adult and say the relationship is strained. Don't say you hate him with a passion. That's childish and stupid. I'm sticking by that. The whole point here is there was better way for this athlete to handle the situation and he chose not to do it.

And I understand that you've moved it to a press conference situation, which is fine, but he did it on his twitter feed. He was not prompted, which is really stupid.