Sports Justice or Sports Whitewash?
John Royal noticed something interesting about Richard Justice's blog:
I need to call out Richard Justice for cowardice. I happened to go to Chron.com during the game yesterday. And around half-time, Justice had this post on his blog about the team being a disaster and about how they just needed to blow up and start all over again. By firing Kubiak and hiring Marty Schottenheimer. And I’m sure some of you reading this are saying, Wow, I’d like to read what Justice wrote about this. There’s just one problem. You can’t. He deleted it. Don’t believe me? Think I’m making things up? Well: “I'd like to apologize for all the bad things I [Justice] said about Gary Kubiak and others. I'll just hit the delete button.”
Yep, he said some nasty things about Gary Kubiak, but because the Texans got back into the game, he changed his mind and hit the delete button. But there’s nothing in what Justice said that would’ve been changed by a victory. He got on Kubiak for poor clock management. For failing to have a good game plan. For bad personnel decisions.
So what’s the deal? Are you hoping that no one read the original entry? Are you hoping Kubiak didn’t see it, or hear about it, and won’t cut off your access?
One of the informal "rules" of blogging is that you don't go back and significantly change blog entries with no warning. Minor edits or updates (usually with an "update" or "updated" tag) are fine, but not wholesale changes to posts (or deletions). For one thing, blog aggregators and google and such tend to pick up the blog entries, so it won't do much good to change it anyway. For another thing -- the main thing -- it's dishonest.
It's not the first time Richard Justice has had a little temper tantrum on his blog and then gone back for the do-over. It's also not the first time he's been caught.
One time is a mistake or perhaps ignorance. Multiple incidents suggest a dishonest journalist, albeit perhaps one who is at least embarrassed at some point after he loses his temper (hint: Maybe work on that temper BEFORE hitting the post button or sending out bizarre emails to people).
Posted by Kevin Whited @ 10/22/07 02:31 PM | Print | Comments (1)
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