Why aren there standards for TV and radio announcers reporting?
Apr. 27, 2007 | Don’t worry, everybody. Bloody Sockgate is behind us. Our long national nightmare is over. We can all rest assured that Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s bloody socks in the 2004 American League Championship Series and World Series really were stained with blood, not red paint or marker. I think the lesson we can take from this incident, which shook Red Sox Nation — forcing Hub fans to actually spend work time discussing it! — is that I got into the wrong business. You get on the radio or TV, you can say whatever you want, and as long as it’s not racist, you’re good. Feel like “reporting” a “story” based on one offhand remark made a year or two ago, with no checking of facts, no asking for comment from the person you’re about to all but libel, no interviewing any of the many available witnesses or clarifying with the guy who made the offhand remark? No problem. That’s what Baltimore Orioles TV announcer Gary Thorne did this week when he said during an Orioles-Re
