Deadspin and a lot of other outlets beat me to it, but I thought this warranted a post. There was some hullabaloo in sports today over a cellphone camera video of Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, apparently drunk in a bar, ripping Bill Parcells and Tim Tebow. I couldn’t possibly care any less about this story because I don’t care about football. I am interested, however, in the pious handwringing of out-of-touch old people in the media who took issue with the Jones video being reported on by major news outlets.
Dale Hunter, who is apparently a prominent sportscaster in Dallas, objected to his channel’s decision to air the Jones video. He had this to say:
“Our business now, too many times, is a fat kid in a T-shirt in his mother’s basement, eating Cheetos and writing his blogs — and we make it news.”
When I watched the clip on Deadspin, I wasn’t shocked to find that Hunter is an old white guy. It’s incredible how much alternative forms of media scare the hell out of old media dinosaurs like Hunter. With newspapers closing across the country, does this guy really want to be on the wrong side of the sea change?
