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Posted on Tue, Sep. 25, 2007 10:15 PM
COMMENTARY
Columnist Carlson made a mistake
Why didn’t Gundy address Carlson in private? Because her column wasn’t published in private. It went out across the state.
Well, isn’t it silly to call Reid a kid and an amateur when he’s 21 and receives a full scholarship in big-time athletics? No. He is a kid. He’s not a professional athlete. And unless he’s accused of breaking the law or being grossly offensive, we don’t need to involve ourselves in message-board speculation about his personality.
I don’t know a sports journalist, particularly a female or minority one, who would appreciate having their careers analyzed based on “back stories told on the sly.”
Good journalists make mistakes. Rather than juvenilely asking Mike Gundy to explain why three-fourths of her column was inaccurate, I’d rather hear Carlson explain what journalism class at Kansas taught her to shred a kid’s character with “rumors and rumblings.”
Carlson responds
Go to www.NewsOK.com to read Jenni Carlson’s latest column about the Mike Gundy incident.
Go to www.NewsOK.com to read Jenni Carlson’s latest column about the Mike Gundy incident.
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