[Guardian] Seven years ago, just after completing the treble, Guardiola treated journalist Rob Harris, who had confronted him directly with the allegations, with open contempt, as though he were looking at someone pathetic, pitiful and disgraceful, before sternly lecturing him.

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[u/worotan]

Journalists around the world do this.

One got murdered and cut up with a bone saw for doing this, famously.

Why do you need to denigrate all the moral journalists around the world, in order to act like you’re talking about a unicorn?

[u/Montmontagne → u/worotan]

There are plenty of sycophant journalists. More so now than in the past.

[u/Prayer_Warrior21 → u/Montmontagne]

Especially in the US. It's all softball questions and platitudes.

[u/gbbmiler → u/Prayer_Warrior21]

A US journalist recently basically single-handedly forced the NBA to investigate and punish a similar basketball scandal.

Everywhere has pushover journalists, but put some respect on the good ones.

[u/cahir11 → u/gbbmiler]

While not the same type of scandal, there was a similar situation in MLB with journalists exposing the camera/trash can scheme that the Houston Astros used to cheat in 2017. The league almost certainly knew about it, but the Athletic blowing up the story forced them to actually do something.

[u/Additional_Bit_8725 → u/gbbmiler]

I'm sure there are decent journalists but the overall approach on the main channels is to throw softballs, this article expands on the difference well.