Yid (Israel)
Carlo Cudicini
A friend of mine's career got me thinking about this sort of things lately.
He's a Sport Journo, a young one and just starting out. Pretty much fresh out of college he got a job covering local sports in one of the newspapers, after that he worked in a website as a more senior journalist and after that another newspaper, so far so good.
Recently he accepted an offer to become pretty much a senior journo (to cover exclusively one of the biggest teams, Hapoel Tel Aviv) for this website I'll call X. X is a pretty big thing here, they've got a radio show and a TV channel along with the website. But X is also very infamous for being a yellow rag, for covering only parts of the stories depends on who's the reporter's friends with, or most of the time-who's the lady who run X is friends with, etc.
Me and him used to joke a lot about the low quality of X, he more than once posted their mistakes or examples of their ridiculous low-level journalism on his facebook page etc. He was very adamant about how that lady who runs X is horrible and is just bringing the level of sport journalism in this country to the ground.
So now he got that offer, of more money, more coverage, a chance to be on TV a bit, some radio time, and he took it. Is it right to say he sold his principles? I actually hope I wouldn't have done the same in his situation, but I don't know. Maybe it's just his profession, and that's one of the reasons I won't go into journalism or sports journalism for that matter even though I love football and I would have loved to have that as my job (as player probably won't happen).
What do you think?
He's a Sport Journo, a young one and just starting out. Pretty much fresh out of college he got a job covering local sports in one of the newspapers, after that he worked in a website as a more senior journalist and after that another newspaper, so far so good.
Recently he accepted an offer to become pretty much a senior journo (to cover exclusively one of the biggest teams, Hapoel Tel Aviv) for this website I'll call X. X is a pretty big thing here, they've got a radio show and a TV channel along with the website. But X is also very infamous for being a yellow rag, for covering only parts of the stories depends on who's the reporter's friends with, or most of the time-who's the lady who run X is friends with, etc.
Me and him used to joke a lot about the low quality of X, he more than once posted their mistakes or examples of their ridiculous low-level journalism on his facebook page etc. He was very adamant about how that lady who runs X is horrible and is just bringing the level of sport journalism in this country to the ground.
So now he got that offer, of more money, more coverage, a chance to be on TV a bit, some radio time, and he took it. Is it right to say he sold his principles? I actually hope I wouldn't have done the same in his situation, but I don't know. Maybe it's just his profession, and that's one of the reasons I won't go into journalism or sports journalism for that matter even though I love football and I would have loved to have that as my job (as player probably won't happen).
What do you think?