Bad Form

When they're not whining about the location of their free seats (second item here) Tribune reporters are crying that they don't feel special. Here's a post by Cubs beat reporter Paul Sullivan and a couple of select responses from readers:

Bad form. Cubs general manager Jim Hendry announced the Kendall trade during the Cubs telecast on WCIU-Ch. 26 last night, making the media wait until afterward to learn of the deal. The Cubs PR department had the press release already written and was simply waiting for Hendry to announce it on TV before telling the beat reporters. Maybe this is the wave of the future, but it shows how little the organization cares about the reporters who cover their team every day. I don't know of any other team that announces its trades on TV, but the Cubs apparently believe they're above it all. -- Paul Sullivan

Comments

On your last "Bad Form" report, wasn't Hendry's action just a way to reward to the VERY interested, listening, and immediately "present" fans? Why the intermedia jealousy?

This is just making you - and your employer - look like a bunch of carping beat writers. Paul, you already have a tendency toward - ahem - uptightness. Just relax! I'll bet that if you spent a year being laid back around the team, they might begin to treat you differently.

And, aren't you forgetting that you work for The Newspaper with the ~very best~ access to all things Cubs?

Please do get off the high horse. This last point highlights the dangers of blogging: writing about topics that exhibit poor thinking on the part of the author. Here's where an editor is helpful! - TL

Posted by: Tim Lacy | Jul 17, 2007 10:49:16 AM

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Paul, if you are complaining like this when the Tribune still owns the team, at least sort of, I do not even want to think about how you are going to scream your lungs out when the Cubs are independent of the Tribune, and can give you the treatment that it sounds like you deserve. Like maybe replacing your seat in the press box with a high chair, and putting a bib on you so that you can be spoon-fed the news. Hendry was totally correct in telling the fans, who have stayed with the Cubs through an incredible drought of non-Series years that the Cubs were going to do their best to do it THIS YEAR. Now shut up, stop your carping, and enjoy the wild ride to October.

Posted by: Dale Ridder | Jul 17, 2007 2:00:39 PM