Sports Journalism

In sports journalism, there is a lot of stress on being fair, unbiased, and balanced. This is because sports journalist only have the job of presenting a particular sporting event and commenting on what they witness. They can speculate about the thoughts of coaches and of players, but they are generally guaranteed a press conference with coaches and players after every game. Because of these things, I propose that sports journalism is the closest thing we have to the original pure journalism of centuries ago. This realization is extremely disheartening because it shows that a news form based in entertainment holds the qualities that hard news should hold. This is perhaps why I would like to be a sports journalist. I want to present sports in a way that allows people to decide on who has true talent and who doesn't. Sports journalism is fact based and that is how many fans see it. You often hear people debating about the abilities of a specific team or player. Because sports journalists have concrete evidence of the stats they report, they can be fact checked. Because they can be fact checked, they hold a higher standard than a lot of news that is digested by the public today. Perhaps hard news journalists should take some tips from sports journalists.