Wrestling needs real journalists to ask tough questions, not just be fans

[Former158]

Compared to other big budget sports, elite wrestlers and coaches are shielded from answering tough questions. Imagine if the Snyder situation was basketball, or Bassett was the number 1 football recruit. In these sports, the coach and those around the program would be pressured constantly to make a comment. Instead we live in a world where Snyder was shielded from the media at Final X and Cael never had to go on record about it. While the situation has improved in recent years with FLO and other outlets, sports journalists are still too scared of having access to top programs cut off. Fans and supporters are left to follow social media rumors and debate via chatrooms without fact checking.

What would it take to have a better wrestling media other than money?

Edited 11 hours ago by Former158

[1032004]

I honestly don’t really blame the media, I blame the programs.  It seems their fear of “being cut off” is legitimate, IIRC I think those types of threats were basically what led to the situation that ultimately caused Willie to leave Flo.  It would’ve been nice for someone to push the Snyder issue, but I’m sure they would’ve just said “we can’t comment on an ongoing legal matter” or something anyway.  

[headshuck]

Make Press Briefings Great Again.

"The challenge is the same every year. The battle is in-state. The battle is Big Ten and regional. The battle is national. The battle is planet Earth. If they find life out there, then the battle will be universal."

- Tom Brands

[Jimmy Cinnabon]

To answer the question: fan interest.  Wrestling is a tiny, tiny non-revenue sport that has 0.001% of the fanbase of football and basketball.  No money = no media interest.

[1032004]

Speaking of the Snyder lack of interview, here is a comment from I believe one of Intermat’s correspondents (although the podcast is no longer called the Intermat podcast), saying that holding Snyder out was “egregious.”  Starts at 19:00

 

[Scouts Honor]

yes, flo or one of the other MANY wrestling rags should hire jemele hill as an analyst

[nhs67]

The last journo to ask a tough question got tea-bagged by the entire fanbase.