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Sunday, December 26, 2010
MLB.com and censorship
Blogger Murray Chass pulls no punches and shows why he was in the running for the highly-coveted Tangotiger Blogger of the Year Award.
The A.P. article was the result of a request made by the A.P. and other news organizations under the Freedom of Information Act after Steinbrenner’s death last July. The information came from Federal Bureau of Investigation files on the Yankees’ owner.
The article, however, did not appear, nor was there any mention of it, on mlb.com. So much for the censorship-free Web site of Major League Baseball.
When you talk about the absence of censorship on mlb.com, though, you have to do it with a wink. The articles that appear on the Web site might themselves have not been censored, but mlb.com reporters censor themselves, avoiding subjects they know they cannot write about. They learn what those subjects are either from mlb.com or the clubs they cover, and they adhere to the “rules” because they like their jobs, especially in today’s shrinking job market.
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Cardiologist. Funny guy that Murray. Funny guy. Card-iologist.
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