effdamets
03-30-06, 11:42 AM
After getting home late from work last night, I was flipping through the channels like a zombie when something caught my eye.
Stephen A. Smith on the show "Quite Frankly" starting ranting about Randy Johnson. For some reason I kept the channel on. I don't like Mr. Smith mostly because of the 'inner city' attitude he brings to a show. But that is a personal opinion.
He said something about the Big Unit and the media last night, that might change my mind about him. He was speaking about how he could stand there and go crazy about Randy not paying the child support or Randy not having a relationship with his kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then Mr. Smith said something which I considered smart. He said that he won't do that because "it's none of his damn business!" "What people do in their personal lives is not anyone's business but their own and the media needs to leave the bedroom/personal activities alone". It is because we nor anyone else has all the facts. We can never be sure that the girl sent letters to Randy, asking for a closer relationship. We can never be sure that Randy paid the right amount of support, or if the mother is a raving lunatic, spending all the money Unit gives her for the kid, on drugs.
I think this is so true about so many things. Why can't the press leave people's personal lives out of the newspapers? Is it that they don't believe enough in their ability to come up with another story so they have to sling mud at prominent figures (local or otherwise)? Is it a malicious thing? Like a reporter trying to get back at the star or distract him from having a good season.
Anyway, I thought the segment was great and I think that more reporters should listen to it.
Stephen A. Smith on the show "Quite Frankly" starting ranting about Randy Johnson. For some reason I kept the channel on. I don't like Mr. Smith mostly because of the 'inner city' attitude he brings to a show. But that is a personal opinion.
He said something about the Big Unit and the media last night, that might change my mind about him. He was speaking about how he could stand there and go crazy about Randy not paying the child support or Randy not having a relationship with his kid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But then Mr. Smith said something which I considered smart. He said that he won't do that because "it's none of his damn business!" "What people do in their personal lives is not anyone's business but their own and the media needs to leave the bedroom/personal activities alone". It is because we nor anyone else has all the facts. We can never be sure that the girl sent letters to Randy, asking for a closer relationship. We can never be sure that Randy paid the right amount of support, or if the mother is a raving lunatic, spending all the money Unit gives her for the kid, on drugs.
I think this is so true about so many things. Why can't the press leave people's personal lives out of the newspapers? Is it that they don't believe enough in their ability to come up with another story so they have to sling mud at prominent figures (local or otherwise)? Is it a malicious thing? Like a reporter trying to get back at the star or distract him from having a good season.
Anyway, I thought the segment was great and I think that more reporters should listen to it.