First of all, Keith is again dancing perilously close to the edge of the abyss. Implicit in the piece is a criticism of ESPN. Big rich companies don't like it when you let "outsiders" peek behind the furniture. And your colleagues don't like being called out for their willingness to devote way more time to their hair and their investment portfolios than they spend on actually doing their jobs as reporters.
Second - substitute "government agency" every time Keith refers to a sports figure or a team or a league. And now we've got the typical (ie: huge fucking) problem of "reporters" acting in the capacity of PR flacks instead of telling us everything we need to know to make well-informed decisions on just about anything.
Wanna know what's killing off our little experiment in self-government? Well, there aren't any simple answers to that, but we could start with this: Press Poodles.
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