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Mr. Bell is right. High-handed media "handlers" will slowly erode good will. Coverage will suffer. Eventually, the product will suffer. We need not go back to the days in Chicago, when George Halas used to bring free buffet spreads into the sports departments and hand out free tickets. (The...

Re: Abramson out and NYT editor, Baquet replaces her I am not an expert on The New York Times, past or present. I worked there only 20 years and took a generous and voluntary buyot in 2010. Since then, I've taught a lot of journalism classes, most recently "Journalism Inquiry" at N.Y.U. When...

Sure he's a "reporter" by today's standards. He's got access. He gets inside stuff. He knows everybody. Does he have a critical sensibility? Hell no.

I'll pretend your question isn't insolent. Yes, I've heard of the NFL Network. It's a publicity organ for the National Football League that features "reporters" like Deion Sanders hugging draft choices and telling them how wonderful they are. That's what "reporting" has become in this era...

Exactly. Mob influence was part of the reason these sports declined. Not the only reason. (And do you think the sleazy characters running some teams now are much better than the Mob?)

Discussing serious subjects with people like you is like arguing with hecklers in the bleachers. Which side are you on -- the media's or the people obsructing the media" Maybe if you signed your real names, we might know. Yes, my take is perfect for 1985 --and 1965 and 2015. There was a time...

By all means he should be allowed to cover the story. Good story, good reporter. What's the problem? Has the NFL become so arrogant that it thinks it can pick and choose who gets to cover it? Pete Rozelle must be spinning in his grave. Even his initials were "P.R." Any story on Johnny...

Lots of words in this column, many of them "I" and "me." A few good thoughts here amid the mush. Does this man have an editor?

"Common decency" and cell-phone etiquette should overlap. That's common sense. Some people here don't seem to get that.

Most of us grew up before cell phones. They are so recent that there is little etiquette about them. Our parents never taught us any manners. Cell phone users are like cigaret smokers used to be: They thought they could light up and poison your air any damn place they pleased. Cell phone...

JOBLESS JOURNALIST IN HEARTLESS BUSINESS

You make a fair point. 20 or even 10 years ago, such a deal would not go. But things have changed. People work on free-lance contracts. They are accountable only to themselves. Everything is blended now and lots of people are compromised. I love watching games on ESPN and I like the...

As our business continues to splinter and morph, more people are going to be working for more than one employer. Some will work part-time here, part-time there. The potential for conflicts will grow. That is NOT to say that this reporter in particular is violating ethical standards -- mine or...

My gut hunch is that the desk was indeed impatient about the writer filing his copy. Back then, papers put out a lot of "EXTRAS" and a perfect game in a local World Series would probably interest strap-hangers on the way home at evening rush. Interesting piece overall. No doubt there is more...

Battista one of the best "teammates" in the business. Knows her beat, works it hard and can write every variety of story, from running gamers to takeouts to columns. Good hire, NFLN.

Terrible news about Weiss and Smith. Few reporters on any sports beat were as prolific and connected as Hoops. Just saw him the other day at the College Football Hall of Fame, which honored him. As for Tim, I worked with him at The Times in the 1990s and competed with him when he went to the...

Lipsyte writes about sports the way Krugman writes about economics. This could be good.

Deadspin considers itself the "pirate ship" in the sports media fleet. With so many newspapers taking on water and laying off reporters, it is refereshing to see a web site breaking serious sports stories that APSE outlets have to chase. The Brett Favre foto story was distasteful, but everyone...

True, there is a lot to be learned -- by students and by veterans -- about the perils of email and twitter and text message journalism. It's easier than ever to be hoaxed. And my students certainly WILL study the Mainti Te'o affair this semester, which ends right about the time of the NFL...

I used to work in an operating room as an orderly and I can assure you I never did anything like that. Nor did the doctors. As for the tastelessness of the Lede, it's something you might expect in Canadian journalism, particularly in Toronto. There are a few writers there -- particularly...