Did he die of multiple gun shot wounds?

 

Is that the point of the question?

 

I wonder how it would be if an interview was reported say this way:

 

How do you feel since your father drank himself to death at an early age?

 

How do you feel since your father smoked to the point lung cancer occurred and he died a painful death?

 

Your father died being murdered by his girl friend in an apartment while still married to your mother. How does that make you feel?

(BTW that is how it would look if the interview was with one of Steve McNair's children)

I wonder how UK will feel when the L-H stops cleaning up quotes from these athletes (and oh god do quotes from athletes get cleaned up.)

I don't understand why they changed the question. Couldn't they have just noted that fact in the article somehow without changing the question?

 

It seems like that approach would have allowed them to get the information in the article without altering anything. And, I ask, would it have been a problem had they done it that way?

I wonder how UK will feel when the L-H stops cleaning up quotes from these athletes (and oh god do quotes from athletes get cleaned up.)

 

Apples and oranges.

Question: Was this thing about his father not widely known?

 

If it was, which seems likely, wording it in print that way does two things: A) Adds context for the readers and B) Serves to make sure the focus of the piece is on the interviewee, not the interviewer.

I had no idea about it.

I wonder how UK will feel when the L-H stops cleaning up quotes from these athletes (and oh god do quotes from athletes get cleaned up.)

 

Lest we forget these are 19-20 year old college kids...as good as they are and as bright as their futures may seem, they are not pros yet. The kid just left home for the first time a few months ago and has had 2 "father's" already pass away...IMO you don't press the envelope on this issue as the HL did!

Petty...I'd wonder how his dad died if it wasn't in there.

Not petty. People have to remember that Tipton also asked Ryan Harrow about his "high-pitched voice." Also asked Harrow if he wished he "had a huskier tone" to his voice. Seriously? You ask a kid about his voice? And you use the phrase "huskier tone?"

 

Tipton is a creepy old man/negative-Nancy & he's itching for retaliation.

Lest we forget these are 19-20 year old college kids...as good as they are and as bright as their futures may seem, they are not pros yet. The kid just left home for the first time a few months ago and has had 2 "father's" already pass away...IMO you don't press the envelope on this issue as the HL did!

 

By the same token, if questions such as those are never asked, how then do readers find out about heartwarming redemption stories of overcoming great tragedies, or when players use said tragedies to motivate them?

 

At 19-20 years old, those "kids" can go vote and fight for their country. They are young men at that age, and it does them a disservice to coddle them as though they were 8-year-olds.

As someone who manages to get into these media opportunities and games, I have to side with UK on most of this. I'm very much admitting that I'm not even a journalism major, but I know the rules and I know what is frowned upon.

 

What rules are you speaking of? Is there some codified rule that says "don't ask players about their murdered parents?"

 

By agreeing to arbitrary "rules," it compromises the journalist's integrity and throws their objectivity into question. At that point, you're just a shill for the basketball program, and they have won their battle to control the message.

Not petty. People have to remember that Tipton also asked Ryan Harrow about his "high-pitched voice." Also asked Harrow if he wished he "had a huskier tone" to his voice. Seriously? You ask a kid about his voice? And you use the phrase "huskier tone?"

 

Tipton is a creepy old man/negative-Nancy & he's itching for retaliation.

Or maybe Tipton is trying to deliver some insight on players and their personalities, etc., to a fan base that clearly craves it.

By the same token, if questions such as those are never asked, how then do readers find out about heartwarming redemption stories of overcoming great tragedies, or when players use said tragedies to motivate them?

 

At 19-20 years old, those "kids" can go vote and fight for their country. They are young men at that age, and it does them a disservice to coddle them as though they were 8-year-olds.

 

Then why can't Tipton treat him like a man ask him the same question word for word instead of posing like he asked him the question man to man? Seems like Tipton is doing the coddling by not being man enough to ask him the question the way he obviously wanted to word it.

Petty...I'd wonder how his dad died if it wasn't in there.

 

Then maybe Tipton should have asked him properly how his dad died during the interview instead of trying to sneak it in after the interview.

Petty...I'd wonder how his dad died if it wasn't in there.

 

Then maybe Tipton should have asked him properly how his dad died during the interview instead of trying to sneak it in after the interview.

Then why can't Tipton treat him like a man ask him the same question word for word instead of posing like he asked him the question man to man? Seems like Tipton is doing the coddling by not being man enough to ask him the question the way he obviously wanted to word it.

 

Then maybe Tipton should have asked him properly how his dad died during the interview instead of trying to sneak it in after the interview.

 

I can't speak for Tipton because I don't know the nature of the interview setting. Was it a one-on-one? Was it done by e-mail? Maybe he did. In Q&A's like this, sometimes editing happens for clarity -- such as a particular question being asked in two different ways and the answer is combined.