Originally posted by BIGPOPPAPUMP
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I don't understand people problem with youtube boxing channels. These guys aren't journalist. They're commentators like Skip Bayless, Sean Hannity, and Tony Kornheiser. While major papers were cutting back their boxing coverage or cutting it all together, guys like Seckbach, 78Sports, Karceno, and Dontae were spending their own money covering boxing because they love the sport and they're the pioneers for one of the biggest youtube communities on the site. I gotta go 3 tabs deep to find boxing on ESPN and Sports Illustrated websites.
They all have their biases just like the traditional boxing media has their biases. Steve Kim, the editor for this site, makes his bias against PBC known
He even thinks it's a good thing every time an Al Haymon fighter loses it's good for the sport. Is he a real journalist because he has a BWAA card?
Or Ivan Goldman. Putting out a fake story about the California commission investigating Haymon for venue blocking. Everybody ran with the story. It took me 2 minutes to email the CSAC and ask them if there was an investigation. The CSAC is a public committee. They have to have records for all meetings and investigations. They emailed me back the next day.
But he has a BWAA card so he's a real journalist.
You've got a boxing writer working as a consultant for HBO boxing while still covering the sport and their competitiors. At least Frank Rich had enough integrity and journalism ethics to stop covering HBO, Time Warner, and their competitors when HBO bought him off.
You got boxing writers cozying up to promoters at their homes and the next day releasing negative stories about the promoters rival.
Boxing writers should be the last people to call anyone out on journalism ethics.
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