Moeller TV Listings 1/22/05
FOX Sports and St. Louis Cardinals' broadcaster Joe Buck will be featured on next weeks' "Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel" on HBO. The interview will touch on the Randy Moss controversy and Joe's relationship with his father, the late legendary sportscaster Jack Buck. According to press reports, the provocative moment comes when Joe is asked whether he would report the news if he knew a Cardinal was using steroids.He responds, "I'm not in a position as the Cardinal announcer to break stories. I can't solve the steroid issue with my little headset on calling play-by-play. That's not my job. I'm not a journalist," in that role.
I agree with these comments. We should always remember who's paying these broadcaster's salaries before we project journalistic ethics onto them. Of course, this also means that, among other things, they should never be allowed to join the print journalists in voting on Hall of Fame inductions, as many have lobbied to do.
The show airs at 9pm on Tuesday, and again ad nauseum on HBO and HBO2 throughout the next two weeks.
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"Sideways" star Paul Giamatti hosts tonight's Saturday Night Live.
posted by CM @ 10:55 AM
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The reason these broadcasters should not be voting on the Hall of Fame is because then Ron Santo could vote for himself and then we'd be forced to burn the place down.
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