OSU Reporter Should Stick To Antics On The Field
Kevin Kelly
Issue date: 9/13/07 Section: Impact Staff Blogs
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(OCT. 1) - Last week, a reporter wrote an article about an Oklahoma State athlete questioning his heart and mental toughness, practically calling him a "mama's boy". His head coach unleashed a verbal tirade against the reporter at a live press conference, calling the story "three-fourths fiction"and "garbage." He left the podium mumbling, "I wanna puke!"
Within the story, she alluded to a scene after a game in which the athlete's mother was hand-feeding him chicken.
The fact that this reporter, Jenni Carlson, from The Oklahoman is ripping the integrity and heart of Oklahoma State University's former number one quarterback Bobby Reid is simply bad reporting. If she is going to be covering the Cowboys season and events occurring about the team, than she should stick to the sports aspect to it and not bring up the fact that his mother was hand feeding him chicken.
So what! That has nothing to do with college football and a sports reporter should know that. I have no problem with someone questioning a players injuries, especially when that player is laughing with coaches at the end of a blowout loss, but bringing private situations into the article is bad reporting. Should Reid turn around and say that a woman shouldn't be reporting college football because she has never played? No. Nobody outside of the football world exactly knows what happened and why Reid lost the starting job. Maybe the backup is just acting as a spark for the team or maybe Reid is injured. Maybe he a bad week of practice, as the coaches contend.
For Carlson to call out a college athlete who never did anything but play poorly is absurd. This is not someone who is being paid to play the game. This isn't a high file player from the NFL. He is a student athlete. No reporter should attack a college student who is playing football, and maybe he isn't the toughest athlete, but that is no reason for a reporter to attack someone and there personal characteristics.
Also good for coach Mike Gundy for calling out the reporter for what she was doing to Reid. Gundy, in my opinion had every right to embarrass himself and the reporter on national television, because he was backing up his player and his team for that matter. Gundy has every right as the coach and the leader for the Cowboys football team to stick up and defend his players. Carlson should go back and look at it from the players perspective. How does Reid feel now as a national story about how Carlson just about called him a momma's boy?
The Oklahoman should take a close look at its sports reporters and see how they treat college athletes.
Read Carlson's initial article
http://newsok.com/article/3131543/1190555866
See Gundy's tirade on YouTube by searching "Oklahoma State" or Mike Gundy".
Within the story, she alluded to a scene after a game in which the athlete's mother was hand-feeding him chicken.
The fact that this reporter, Jenni Carlson, from The Oklahoman is ripping the integrity and heart of Oklahoma State University's former number one quarterback Bobby Reid is simply bad reporting. If she is going to be covering the Cowboys season and events occurring about the team, than she should stick to the sports aspect to it and not bring up the fact that his mother was hand feeding him chicken.
So what! That has nothing to do with college football and a sports reporter should know that. I have no problem with someone questioning a players injuries, especially when that player is laughing with coaches at the end of a blowout loss, but bringing private situations into the article is bad reporting. Should Reid turn around and say that a woman shouldn't be reporting college football because she has never played? No. Nobody outside of the football world exactly knows what happened and why Reid lost the starting job. Maybe the backup is just acting as a spark for the team or maybe Reid is injured. Maybe he a bad week of practice, as the coaches contend.
For Carlson to call out a college athlete who never did anything but play poorly is absurd. This is not someone who is being paid to play the game. This isn't a high file player from the NFL. He is a student athlete. No reporter should attack a college student who is playing football, and maybe he isn't the toughest athlete, but that is no reason for a reporter to attack someone and there personal characteristics.
Also good for coach Mike Gundy for calling out the reporter for what she was doing to Reid. Gundy, in my opinion had every right to embarrass himself and the reporter on national television, because he was backing up his player and his team for that matter. Gundy has every right as the coach and the leader for the Cowboys football team to stick up and defend his players. Carlson should go back and look at it from the players perspective. How does Reid feel now as a national story about how Carlson just about called him a momma's boy?
The Oklahoman should take a close look at its sports reporters and see how they treat college athletes.
Read Carlson's initial article
http://newsok.com/article/3131543/1190555866
See Gundy's tirade on YouTube by searching "Oklahoma State" or Mike Gundy".
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