Tangential question: I read UK football news, and whenever there's a case of someone doing or saying something offensive (e.g. racial epithets from the crowd, nationalist epithets from one player to another, rando on Twitter publicly attacking a player), I cannot find any press outlet reporting what the offensive thing actually was. And …
Tangential question: I read UK football news, and whenever there's a case of someone doing or saying something offensive (e.g. racial epithets from the crowd, nationalist epithets from one player to another, rando on Twitter publicly attacking a player), I cannot find any press outlet reporting what the offensive thing actually was. And I do understand why, for reasons of discretion, some of the major papers would choose to leave this out. But it seems like no one reports it, not even half-censored versions. Is this a strongly adhered to journalistic convention, or would the papers be putting themselves in legal jeopardy for publishing the offensive thing?
As a Toronto-based Liverpool fan, I read such stories too and am confused. They never report what was said. And why do you never see such stories about North American sports. Are Canadian and American fans so much better behaved that they never attack players online? I see such stories from the UK and file them under, "That Would Never Happen Here."
Tangential question: I read UK football news, and whenever there's a case of someone doing or saying something offensive (e.g. racial epithets from the crowd, nationalist epithets from one player to another, rando on Twitter publicly attacking a player), I cannot find any press outlet reporting what the offensive thing actually was. And I do understand why, for reasons of discretion, some of the major papers would choose to leave this out. But it seems like no one reports it, not even half-censored versions. Is this a strongly adhered to journalistic convention, or would the papers be putting themselves in legal jeopardy for publishing the offensive thing?
As a Toronto-based Liverpool fan, I read such stories too and am confused. They never report what was said. And why do you never see such stories about North American sports. Are Canadian and American fans so much better behaved that they never attack players online? I see such stories from the UK and file them under, "That Would Never Happen Here."