From Wigderson Library:
I lost all respect for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel sports section, and Drew Olsen in particular, when I read what a cancer Chuckie Carr was to the Milwaukee Brewers after he left the team. While he was with the team, there was no story. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other Wisconsin newspapers with sports sections are so institutionally tied to the sports that they are covering that they do no real coverage at all. These supposedly "accredited journalists" couldn't even find steroids in a locker room when baseball and football were awash in the stuff.
Yet they're great at reporting rumors (or even making stuff up) that will make a nice headline, complete with a "look inside" on the front page. How many times did ESPN retire Brett Favre? How many trade rumors are reported that turn out not to be true? How many single-source anonymous references make it into sports coverage?
They aren't even experts in the subjects they cover. Want proof? This football season watch how many of these "experts" who get paid to watch 40-plus hours of football, get paid to get inside information on the teams, get paid to analyze each game, do worse than 50-50 on making game predictions. If the guy who runs your office pool does better than half the writers at CBS Sportsline, there's something wrong with the writers at CBS Sportsline.
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