Saints fired Dennis Allen

efil4stnias said

i get it. ( i said yesterday on Andrus post game tweet thread )

But if you are intent on holding back info from print, simply to maintain access, that would have a significant impact on decisions ( a la Locker room lost was weeks ago ) then why sit on it and wait for the "ok" ?

Saints dont pay his salary, subscribers/readers do. You erode trust of your audience, you find yourself looking for employment.

Its a fine line, i understand it. But at some point the "news" is waaaaay bigger and the story must get told.

Access journalism is an issue in sports reporting.

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I don't post a lot, but this is one area I think is misunderstood. I don't believe this is a question of "access journalism," rather, think of it more like obituary preparedness. A famous actor gets really sick and is on life support. Newspapers are going to prepare an article on his life and death, but they're not going to pull the trigger and publish the story until the heart stops beating.

Same thing here: The reporter, like the rest of us, knew it might be coming but didn't know when. So he wrote the bones of this story so that he'd have something to publish quickly when it did happen. It's the responsible thing to do, to wait until the firing actually happened and then pushing out the story at exactly the moment people are looking for info.