Reporters, Schlongs, & Double Standards

by swg777 on Sep 17, 2010 7:56 AM MDT

I can't find anyone in the mainstream media who seems to agree with me and so I have to vent. Here is my belief: I am against female (and male) members of the media being allowed in locker rooms. I don't care how "professional" you think you are. There should be a separate room before or after the players change for media interviews. There, I said it.

If we are going to allow men and women in a men's locker room then I hope we don't have a double standard of banning men and women from a women's locker room. If men are allowed to be in a women's locker room I will be the first to change careers and develop a sudden interest in journalism. I would be glad to stare at racks all day while operating under the guise of "professionalism." Wait, I can't think of a women's locker room I would be interested in seeing. Certainly not the WNBA.

Clinton Portis getting bashed by the media pisses me off! Can't a player have an opinion? Does every player have to be politically correct and march in lockstep with the mainstream media? This is the 21st century but a schlong is still a schlong.

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There has to be room for male reporters to conduct interviews in female tennis locker rooms.

by pubkeeper on Sep 17, 2010 8:23 AM MDT reply actions

I was coming to suggest that.

by Ramblin'man on Sep 17, 2010 10:57 AM MDT up reply actions

I would say a College female volleyball team would be a nice Locker room to visit...

Hey...How'd everyone get in my room?

by SFLChief on Sep 17, 2010 8:34 AM MDT reply actions

Second that.

"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood..."

by Alan_Smithee on Sep 17, 2010 9:17 AM MDT up reply actions

Tennis

would definitely be it. I doubt the LPGA? (Women’s Golf) would do it for me either – very nice. I like.

by PaleHorse78 on Sep 17, 2010 8:34 AM MDT reply actions

For that matter

I’d like to interview NFL cheerleaders in their locker room.

by PaleHorse78 on Sep 17, 2010 8:38 AM MDT reply actions 1 recs

According to J.A. Adande (ESPN NBA analyst)

Yes, men are allowed in the female locker rooms in the WNBA. He posted this on his twitter account yesterday. I have no link available at this time b/c my work blocks twitter.

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by Melo'sPersonofSeattle on Sep 17, 2010 8:42 AM MDT reply actions

It feels to me like

the locker room coverage is driven by TV and radio’s need to give the appearance of realism to their BS. Never mind that the player is mouthing platitudes, he is half-naked in the locker room looking pissed off, so our broadcast has cred. And lookee at our network, we gave you access.

"Kool-Aid Kool Aid, Tastes Great, We Want Kool Aid, Can't Wait"

by littletinybroncos on Sep 17, 2010 8:58 AM MDT reply actions

I was thinking about this yesterday.

What does being in the locker room really serve? What is the purpose? Can you not wait a half hour before getting answers to any questions you may have? What is the rush? Everybody is in such a hurry all the time. I prefer to ‘smell the roses’ as the saying goes. Of course I’m almost 40, and my opinion has changed from when I was 20.

It takes neither courage nor intelligence to cheer for a team only when that team wins. The true test of a fan's mettle is the same as it is for a player: Were you there when you were needed?

aka Solace

by Jason Witte on Sep 17, 2010 9:10 AM MDT reply actions

I've been thinking the same things.

Let the players clean up, then go to a friendly meeting room where they can mill around with reporters.

Take it easy, but take it. Studs Terkel

by bradley on Sep 17, 2010 9:22 AM MDT reply actions

Completely agree

I hate how Roger Goodell cares so much about the league’s image and the political correctness of its players. Why do they even bother conducting interviews when everyone should be saying the same things? It’s boring…

You can take the man out of Colorado, but you can't take Colorado out of the man.

by manbearpig5000000 on Sep 17, 2010 9:57 AM MDT reply actions

Men are allowed in professional women's locker rooms

Dudes, there are web sites if you want to look at girls, or athletes who slut up and then pose for your libido as opposed to those who put on a uniform and go out to win games.

Professionals are professionals. Athletes are athletes. Consider that for a moment.

Hand wanking and oogling is for boys, barflys, and guys who what to get the rush of all things penis-centric. Nothing is wrong with that way of living. My observation is that the MSM, especially Spanish Language TV, likes to blur the lines between the professional athletes/reporters and wants guys to be sexually aroused/frustrated at all times. It makes it a lot easier for the handful of corporations that own the media to manipulate guys into buying whatever sex appeal product they’re promoting at the moment.

I want my athletes to be athletes—professionals. I want my journalists to be journalists. And for those times that I enjoyed myself by whoring around, then I wanted my whores to be whores. But when I’m not in penis-satisfaction mode, it’s really quite annoying to having everything on TV trying to try to arouse me. Hell, I hate having to go to the grocery store and walk past the wall of soft core porn they call magazine covers that line the checkout isles. I just want to get a meal, not a hard on.

I just have to laugh when I hear and read comments from guys whose whole self image and image of women starts, stops and includes a description of body parts and their desire for them. Don’t get me wrong. I love sex, I love looking at beautiful women, and I love my girlfriend dearly. But when I’m enjoying a football game, and trying to learn more about athletes, the insistence by the media and guys who are literally dickheads (i.e. Rothlisberger et. al.) to turn the event into a contest of who’s package is bigger is just a bore.

First they ignore you.
They then laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then, you win.
--Gandhi

by Santa Fe Bronc on Sep 17, 2010 9:59 AM MDT reply actions 3 recs

It's an outdated practice.

And just becuase you and I are perverts doesn’t mean most male journalists in female locker rooms are also. :P

Verbose in style, dispersion of thought, procrastination in life.

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by Tim Lynch on Sep 17, 2010 11:33 AM MDT reply actions

I'm effing around of course.

I just think with all the access journalists have to players…why do they need to continue locker room access?? It seems old fashioned and completely out of touch with the times we’re in.

Verbose in style, dispersion of thought, procrastination in life.

The guy formerly known as ZAPPA

by Tim Lynch on Sep 17, 2010 11:34 AM MDT up reply actions

There is nothing gained

to get someone’s comments in the locker room that can’t wait until that player gets dressed. What information is gained?

Reporter in the locker room – “How do you feel about that game losing interception you threw?”

QB – “Horrible.”

Reporter 20 minutes later outside the lockeroom. — “How do you feel about that game losing interception you threw?”

QB – " Horrible."

The questions are always the same, and so are the repsonses. If you won you feel good. If you lost you feel bad. The reporters are going to ask about the players and teams performances. Why the @#$% it needs to be asked in the locker room is rediculous. I am surprised they aren’t hanging out by the unrinals.

Locker Rooms should be off to cameras and media.

by agentj007 on Sep 17, 2010 12:26 PM MDT reply actions

We fought, debated this stuff ages ago

Locker room access is all about multi-tasking. You really think these guys want get dressed and then spend yet another 30-60 minutes doing nothing but answering questions? They’re in the entertainment business and get paid damn well for being there – it’s part of the job – IMO.
Go Broncs!

It's "just" football

by Donkhead on Sep 17, 2010 1:34 PM MDT reply actions

I agree with you swg

but things like “Hard Knocks” and Reality based TV programs are not helping matters.

Character may be manifested in the great moments but it is made in the small ones -- Philip Brooks
My ship finally came in, but it was the Kobayashi Maru.

by KaptainKirk on Sep 17, 2010 2:36 PM MDT reply actions