MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2006
SlateThe primary duty of sports journalism isn't to be impartial and objective but to delight and divert the audience, no matter how boring the game or dismal the team, says
Jack Shafer. "Beat reporters routinely skirt journalistic objectivity to subtly pull for the home team because for fans, reading a neutral account of yesterday's game is like kissing your mother," he writes. "Many of journalism's best writers are assigned to the sports pages in order to entertain. The ones who don't make the grade can always be retooled into war correspondents."
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