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[Piotr Rasputin]

UT-Chattanooga athlete suspended for poor use of social media.

http://timesfreepress.com/news/2011/dec/17/utcs-early-suspended-anti-coach-tweets/?sports

WORLD Wide Web, kids. You put something out there, a kid in India with a modem can know how reckless you are with your thoughts.

 

[playthrough]

<i>On Nov. 20 he wrote, “I hate this man with a passion, each and every day I have to see him I become more and more miserable.”</i>

People can't really be that dumb, can they?

 

[KJIM]

Yes. Yes, they can.

It frightens me daily.

 

[Dan Feldman]

From a journalistic perspective, Tennessee at Chattanooga's policy troubles me much more. I certainly understand why the school has implemented it, but its counter to openness.

“When we started coaching, there was no Twitter,” Shulman said. “All that Twitter does, and tweeting does, is get people in trouble. You act emotionally and put it in print.

Why not stop letting players be interviewed, too? They might say something that gets them in trouble.

Maybe the player overreacted in his tweets, but maybe he didn't. Why, as outsiders, are you crucifying him without know whether his tweets were fair? Maybe this coach really deserves such disdain.

 

[imjustagirl]

Good work by Uch.

By "Kentucky radio blog" I'm assuming they mean Matt Jones. But I won't give him the click it would take to verify that.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Good work by Uch.

By "Kentucky radio blog" I'm assuming they mean Matt Jones. But I won't give him the click it would take to verify that.

It most likely is Jones.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Did Printdust write this thread title?

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

Did Printdust write this thread title?

Yes.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Well, keep him from hacking your handle, then.

 

[Gator]

From a journalistic perspective, Tennessee at Chattanooga's policy troubles me much more. I certainly understand why the school has implemented it, but its counter to openness.

“When we started coaching, there was no Twitter,” Shulman said. “All that Twitter does, and tweeting does, is get people in trouble. You act emotionally and put it in print.

Why not stop letting players be interviewed, too? They might say something that gets them in trouble.

Maybe the player overreacted in his tweets, but maybe he didn't. Why, as outsiders, are you crucifying him without know whether his tweets were fair? Maybe this coach really deserves such disdain.

Saying you "hate your coach with a passion" on twitter, or in a press conference, is stupid. And certainly an offense worthy of a suspension.

 

[lcjjdnh]

From a journalistic perspective, Tennessee at Chattanooga's policy troubles me much more. I certainly understand why the school has implemented it, but its counter to openness.

“When we started coaching, there was no Twitter,” Shulman said. “All that Twitter does, and tweeting does, is get people in trouble. You act emotionally and put it in print.

Why not stop letting players be interviewed, too? They might say something that gets them in trouble.

Maybe the player overreacted in his tweets, but maybe he didn't. Why, as outsiders, are you crucifying him without know whether his tweets were fair? Maybe this coach really deserves such disdain.

Saying you "hate your coach with a passion" on twitter, or in a press conference, is stupid. And certainly an offense worthy of a suspension.

Good to see journalists sticking up for authority.

 

[Gator]

From a journalistic perspective, Tennessee at Chattanooga's policy troubles me much more. I certainly understand why the school has implemented it, but its counter to openness.

“When we started coaching, there was no Twitter,” Shulman said. “All that Twitter does, and tweeting does, is get people in trouble. You act emotionally and put it in print.

Why not stop letting players be interviewed, too? They might say something that gets them in trouble.

Maybe the player overreacted in his tweets, but maybe he didn't. Why, as outsiders, are you crucifying him without know whether his tweets were fair? Maybe this coach really deserves such disdain.

Saying you "hate your coach with a passion" on twitter, or in a press conference, is stupid. And certainly an offense worthy of a suspension.

Good to see journalists sticking up for authority.

Go tell your boss you hate him. See how that works out.

 

[lcjjdnh]

From a journalistic perspective, Tennessee at Chattanooga's policy troubles me much more. I certainly understand why the school has implemented it, but its counter to openness.

“When we started coaching, there was no Twitter,” Shulman said. “All that Twitter does, and tweeting does, is get people in trouble. You act emotionally and put it in print.

Why not stop letting players be interviewed, too? They might say something that gets them in trouble.

Maybe the player overreacted in his tweets, but maybe he didn't. Why, as outsiders, are you crucifying him without know whether his tweets were fair? Maybe this coach really deserves such disdain.

Saying you "hate your coach with a passion" on twitter, or in a press conference, is stupid. And certainly an offense worthy of a suspension.

Good to see journalists sticking up for authority.

Go tell your boss you hate him. See how that works out.

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.

 

[Gator]

From a journalistic perspective, Tennessee at Chattanooga's policy troubles me much more. I certainly understand why the school has implemented it, but its counter to openness.

“When we started coaching, there was no Twitter,” Shulman said. “All that Twitter does, and tweeting does, is get people in trouble. You act emotionally and put it in print.

Why not stop letting players be interviewed, too? They might say something that gets them in trouble.

Maybe the player overreacted in his tweets, but maybe he didn't. Why, as outsiders, are you crucifying him without know whether his tweets were fair? Maybe this coach really deserves such disdain.

Saying you "hate your coach with a passion" on twitter, or in a press conference, is stupid. And certainly an offense worthy of a suspension.

Good to see journalists sticking up for authority.

Go tell your boss you hate him. See how that works out.

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.

 

[dooley_womack1]

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.

 

[lcjjdnh]

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".

 

[dooley_womack1]

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 **** up his life to stop doing something that stupid.

 

[Raiders]

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

 

[Dan Feldman]

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 **** up his life to stop doing something that stupid.

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?

 

[TigerVols]

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.