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May 11, 2005
In The Interests Of Full Disclosure
From the stifled yawn file: In a survey of 285 newspapers, about 43 percent of sports editors agreed that accepting such "freebies" didn't affect reporters' objectivity, said Marie Hardin, an assistant professor at the Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State. Just in case any of you didn't already know, I can be bought.
Eric
11:20 PM
Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsNo, no, meal freebies do not do anything to influence a story. In fact, they are mostly just taken for granted by the beat guys who have had them for the last twenty-odd years. The real thing I didn't like in that article: It also found that 39 percent of editors reached in the survey agreed with the statement that sports coverage "should boost the home team." Wow. That is just plain awful. Posted by:
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