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Message: [QUOTE="A Clockwork Orange, post: 28243, member: 16"] I'm not sure what you do for a job, but lets just say you're an insurance agent. Your job requires you to ask people to buy insurance from you. Sometimes you have to make cold calls to people and ask them. Sometimes you have to ask people two or three times -- stay in touch to see if something might happen at some point. That's the sucky part of the job, but it is your job, and you have to do it. That's what Rahme has to do as well. He has to ask the questions regardless of whether the coach says he will answer or not. It's part of his job. He wouldn't be doing his job if he at least didn't ask. If Coach Marrone came out after a game and said, "I'm not talking about this game, I'm only talking about the next one." Would you expect the journalists not to at least try to ask him about this game? About the story that is important RIGHT NOW? Now lets be absurd and broaden this a little. When Woodward and Bernstein started sniffing around the Watergate stuff, should they have just said "okay, forget about it, these people don't want us asking these questions," and packed up and gone home? I know YOU don't think of Dave Rahme as a journalist, but that's what your taught in journalism school. Ask the tough questions, even if the interviewee doesn't want you to ask them. That's journalism, that's how stories get broke, that's the job. You may not like that he does it, but he's not paid by SU, and his job isn't always to be sunshine and lollipops. Tough if you don't like it, that's his job. And by the way, the Post Standard IS losing money, but it's not because of SU, or anything like it. It's economics, and people who read their content online for free, and then b!tch about said content anonymously on sports forums. Maybe they should charge you to read and/or watch what they report? I'm sure you'd be p!ssed about that as well. [/QUOTE]

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