Media members angry about Steph Curry bringing his daughter to press conference

[Kayaugstin Kott]

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[Dick Whitman]

Looks like one media member.

Dusty Baker used to do this after tough losses with the Cubs, use his cute kid as a human shield.

 

[steveu]

Sure. Take the NBA player who is one of the most popular in the league, is always cooperative, doesn't have a bad background... and run him through the mud. Way to go, Skip.

 

[Kayaugstin Kott]

More reaction gathered by WaPo: Stephen Curry’s daughter Riley sparks discussion about kids at the podium - The Washington Post

 

[Big Circus]

I'm just glad we got Freddie Prinze Jr.'s take. (Fully acknowledging that he gave it unsolicited.) Perhaps someone can reach Andrew Keegan at his cult compound to find out his opinion.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Barry Bonds did this. I remember Ken Griffey Jr. doing this at an all-star game.

And people wonder why everyone hates the media.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

I'm just glad we got Freddie Prinze Jr.'s take. (Fully acknowledging that he gave it unsolicited.) Perhaps someone can reach Andrew Keegan at his cult compound to find out his opinion.

FPJ should be relieved his dad never did this with him. Gunplay on the set of Chico and the Man.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

Did Curry bring the kid up there to shield against any questions?

Sometimes I think the players bring the kid up there as a shield. Other times, I think they're handed their kid after a game and they take the kid with them wherever they go.

 

[Alma]

It's a middling matter.

But if you're going to seriously write that reporters shouldn't be annoyed by a 2-year-old kid mugging and telling her dad to be quiet, you're either being a fan (who doesn't know better) a pollyanna or dumping on the media as a matter of being falsely fashionable.

It's a celebrity doing celebrity things, and it's celebrated because he's a celebrity. Period.

 

[deskslave]

So ... you get video of a cute kid that probably draws millions of hits, instead of anodyne quotes about taking it one game at a time and how it's a team game, and this is somehow the end of the world as we know it?

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

What hard-hitting question is someone not going to ask because Seth has his kid?

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

It's a middling matter.

But if you're going to seriously write that reporters shouldn't be annoyed by a 2-year-old kid mugging and telling her dad to be quiet, you're either being a fan (who doesn't know better) a pollyanna or dumping on the media as a matter of being falsely fashionable.

It's a celebrity doing celebrity things, and it's celebrated because he's a celebrity. Period.

I disagree. For every member of the media who hates it, there's another who thinks it's the cutest thing in the world, or hates it so much that they use it in their lede. Windhorst may hate it, but SportsCenter sure as hell didn't.

The year Griffey Jr. brought his kid to the all-star press conference, it was in the first or second line of every story written about it.

I'm quite sure I complained about some ridiculous **** during my career, but coaches and players bringing kids into a presser definitely was not one of them.

 

[DanOregon]

Media upset that people actually watch presser to see cute kid and realize how inane some of the questions are. Though I would like to see someone try this on Meet the Press with their grandkids.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Skip Bayless is just bitter because everyone in the Bay Area thought he was the biggest tool when he wrote for the Merc. Don't make a habit of turning the pressers into daycares, but once in a while, having a cute kid on the podium with dad is perfectly fine. Honest to God, it is still better than Marshawn Lynch or others giving bull**** answers or no answers. Now that is a waste of everyone's time.

 

[swingline]

FPJ should be relieved his dad never did this with him. Gunplay on the set of Chico and the Man.

Loooooking good!

 

[jr/shotglass]

I disagree. For every member of the media who hates it, there's another who thinks it's the cutest thing in the world, or hates it so much that they use it in their lede. Windhorst may hate it, but SportsCenter sure as hell didn't.

Yes, NBA.TV was probably delighted, too. You might look at it from the print side of things, then. (Although print doesn't matter anymore. )

The people trying to hit a 1 am deadline and not incur the wrath of their desk didn't get that much out of the 2-year-old mugging. The people who are blasting the media about this stance are the same ones who will roll their eyes when Harry in the cubicle next to them trots out the toddler during work hours and shuts down the business for a half-hour.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

You might look at it from the print side of things, then. (Although print doesn't matter anymore. )

The people trying to hit a 1 am deadline and not incur the wrath of their desk didn't get that much out of the 2-year-old mugging. The people who are blasting the media about this stance are the same ones who will roll their eyes when Harry in the cubicle next to them trots out the toddler during work hours and shuts down the business for a half-hour.

It's interesting that it's the TV people bitching though.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I get what you're saying there. Fair point.

But they're there to get a job done, too. Not to watch America's Cutest Kids.

Do you see any parallel between this and when a fan slips into a press conference and asks fawning questions? I've seen that happen a time or two, too.

 

[joe_schmoe]

Agree with Shot. that was my first thought when I heard she was there.
And from the other side, how annoying would it be if the media were allowed to bring their children to the press conference?

The pro athletes work concludes after the press conference. Why should the kids be allowed there? They aren't allowed on the bench, not allowed on the basketball court, why allow them in the presser?

 

[Alma]

So ... you get video of a cute kid that probably draws millions of hits, instead of anodyne quotes about taking it one game at a time and how it's a team game, and this is somehow the end of the world as we know it?

Nobody called it the end of the world. That's a false equivalency on your part.

Next time a reader wants to talk to you about a story, hold a 2-year-old right next to the phone and have them babble into it. See how much the other person on the line appreciates it.

Again: The only reason anybody think it's cute is because Curry's a celebrity and, specifically, a sports celebrity. You think actors and musicians have 2-year-old kids on their laps during press junkets? They do not, and it's because their PR flak would flip their **** if they did. It's unprofessional. And when politicians do it, people rightly call it for what it is: Pandering. It happens in sports celebrity because PR staff has no power, rarely has spine, and rarely shows what spine they do have because the athletes in question are usually besotted with praise 24/7 and generally act like boy kings.

None of it is the end of the world. But it's annoying. And it is OK in life to, gasp, suggest a wealthy celebrity is annoying you. That's OK. It's allowed.