Worry About Integrity of Sports Reporting Instead
From Hooked on Golf Blog:
Should fans, press or persons other than players or officials be able to “report” possible rules infractions? There have been a few cases on the PGA Tour where fans actually called in after seeing a rules infraction on TV, and in some of those cases the players were penalized or disqualified.
Fans in many other sports (except perhaps occasionally baseball) can’t affect the outcome of the game directly. Fans don’t call in the NFL offices and report pass interference to the officials. Reporters don’t tattle to the umpires in baseball that the last pitch was a strike and not a ball.
Actually, reporters regularly tattle on umpires, it’s just that umpires and officiating crews don’t cave when pressured and go back and change the outcome of a call they missed.
Though a member of the press may be citing a possible rules violation “for the integrity of the game,” who is keeping that press member in check for “the integrity of sports reporting?”
An editor of a local Honolulu newspaper once said, “We keep the sports department in another part of the building so they don’t contaminate the newsroom.”
Hooked On Golf Blog: Should fans or press be able to call out rules infractions?
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