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Here's wishing you guys the best this season. May the 2007 NFL Draft turn out to be the very best for Kansas City. Nobody can write and analize your team better than you do. I truly mean that. ...
Now to my pet peeve -- Sports Journalism 101
I am specifically addressing my concern on the part of sports writers that veer away from their role as journalists to do something immoral -- predict the news.
With the explosion of the Internet, we're dealing with very different sports outlets. False information is passed from blog to blog. Predictions seem to be the norm. Sports is not a difficult place to work, except for people afraid of being left behind. Instead of gathering the news, discussing the news, interpreting the news, reporting the news, they're predicting the news. It's worthless. They're nothing more than fortune tellers.
While their errors may be amusing, false conclusions are not. That's much harder to fix. However, it's common knowledge that mock drafts sell. Whenever you click on a Web site, advertisers take notice. It may be fun, and a few fortune tellers may be right or lucky on individual players, but until the game is played, and until the very end of the season, nobody can write the story.
I'm not here to offend -- My story applies to sports journalists that fall into the trap of predictions. Not to the entertainers and ex-NFL players that appear on sports networks daily. They're in a worthless class all by themselves.
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