I normally give the press a pass on information. The team presents a position and the press prints it. The position could be misinformation because they are playing a cat and mouse game with other teams about trades, drafts, injury, ect. So if someone from the press is wrong, I don't rail on them like some do. They can only work with the information they receive. Especially mediots who are not local and don't know every nuance of every player on your team.
However, there are journalists who I find to be disingenuous at best and damned liars in practice.
Bayless is one of those guys. His ranting about Aikman being gay back in the 90's is what ultimately ran him out of Dallas. He held on to that stance while other journalists laughed at the notion. (This is not about being gay for me. It is about Bayless being controversial to gain readership. The same move as SAS when he rants. He must eat blood pressure pills like M&Ms. There was a writer for one of the Dallas newspapers back when they had two that was considered a poison pen about the Cowboys. No matter what he took a contrarian posture on the team. I don't abide those types who are elbowing their way to the top through malicious content versus real sports news. Dale Hansen has an agenda. He still is pissed about Barry Switzer punching him in the arm during an interview and being fired by Jerry Jones. His commentary about the Cowboys shows his bias.)
I like the Dragnet style of journalism. Just give me the facts. I'll form my own opinion.
So to that end, I wouldn't believe Bayless if he told me water was wet. And announcing Stephen went around the agent would do what with his future relationships with agents? That sound like a pile of bull nuggets to me. Not you, Latin, but Bayless and his self importance.
