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Sorry you don't understand the dynamics involved when a reporter is embedded with a professional sports team. There's a reason critics of any team are rarely media members that spend their working days with the teams. To think the access deals and mutually beneficial "arrangements" are isolated only to Fenway Park only is completely naive. All teams have ways to get "their side of the story" out and reporters often cringe but comply because their job depends on access. Without it, they become obsolete in a competitive industry. My wife was a news reporter for years and I am more than familiar with how the game is played. Access and deals...and some news dribbles out occasionally. The NFL home office feeds Schefter. NFL GMs feed King. Agents feed Borges. The Patriots feed Reiss. Pro sports is really just entertainment and everyone has a role and the pieces always fit together.
What's really puzzling in this pushback is the total dismissal of similar sentiments by two former embedded beat reporters that clearly know how the reporter/team game gets played. Felger called out Reiss for some homer reporting and I absolutely concur. I caught a few slanted Reiss pieces in the past few weeks and knew how un-Reiss-like the sentiments were for such a middle of the road writer. Clearly he was being steered and the extra critical types could argue he was being used.
I'm sure you believe Bedard is in the Patriots' pockets also (if you do, you don't know his work).
-After a full rundown on the moves of the past 2 days, he sums up:
"......Patriots have done a great job gauging this market. Stellar. We'll just see if they get the right pieces, again...... "
Talib, Wilson and state of Patriots free agency - Extra Points - Boston.com
Please, you lost all credibility when you claimed ESPN, of all things, is a Patriot water carrier. Perhaps now you will claim the same for the Globe.
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