I think you might be picking nits over a question of semantics, but since I agree that most of what Scott did was news *reading* as opposed to "reporting," I'll concede the point (although I considered stubbornly continuing to argue by offering up the analogy of Walter Cronkite as "not a reporter" once he retired from the field and took over the CBS anchor desk. But I managed to resist the urge. :) ).
The rest of your response was good stuff.
Doug Fields
Tampa, FL
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Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] So long, Stuart Scott
From: Joe Hass <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, January 05, 2015 12:32 pm
To: [email protected]
On Sunday, January 4, 2015 5:04:01 PM UTC-6, Doug Fields wrote:On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 3:27 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:No offense, but if that’s all you saw in Stuart Scott, you *clearly* didn’t get it. He was a breath (a typhoon) of fresh air in the old-boy club of sports reporting. With very few minor exceptions, before his arrival on the national stage, the relevant faces and voices in sports were older, whiter, stodgier men…often ex-athletes and coaches picking up a check on their name recognition…all speaking in the same tired clichés to the same white audience.
“a man who did nothing but narrate sport highlights and host gameday programming.”I strongly disagree with the use of "sports reporting" when it comes to Scott. His Wikipedia page spends far more time on his hosting duties than the people he interviewed during his time at Bristol, which hardly qualifies as "reporting". Please feel free to correct me on this with things he did that would truly be reporting (think Jeremy Schaap as an example).
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