Sports Media’s Double Standard Over Shams Charania Is Ridiculous
"The same people criticizing Charania Sunday morning are often the first ones sharing insider reports when those reports benefit the conversations they want to have. That’s the double standard." The post Sports Media’s Double Standard Over Shams Charania Is Ridiculous appeared first on Barrett Media.
Information is the most valuable thing in sports media . Everyone from the top CEO to the part-time producer benefits from gathering information and applying it. The insider role for networks has taken the local beat reporter position and amplified it on steroids.
Instead of covering the day-to-day operations of a given team, personalities earn these roles through relationships with agents, franchises, and trusted sources built over the years. Shams Charania is one of the best in the business. He has taken the mantle from what Adrian Wojnarowski helped build at ESPN and made it his own.
The job itself is simple; in fact, it’s journalism. That’s something many in sports media claim is dead or dying a death of ten thousand paper cuts. Regardless of the timing, sport, player, executive, or team, Charania’s success is built on the information he gathers and disseminates to the ESPN audience.
This Sunday, Charania did his job. Early Sunday morning, he reported that the NBA Most Valuable Player Award would be handed to Shai Gilgeous-Alexander for a second consecutive year. Was the news stunning?
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