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Originally Posted by MattyC
Yes. As I said, much much worse is said around every locker room ever and you never hear about it. Why? Because most reporters have tact, class, common sense and brains. If Botchford can't figure out the difference he needs to find a different line of work. All the other reporters seemed to have good gauge on it.
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Okay, that's fine, totally reasonable perspective to take on it. I'm just saying I can see the other side of the argument, where if you interject into an on the record discussion you've tacitly put your comments on that record as well and it's not up to the person transcribing them to decide what should and what shouldn't be censored on the basis of some vaguely defined notion of tact and social nicety.
I'm not saying that other side's argument is
right, I think I agree with you that there's got to be a line somewhere and this is probably on the other side of it. I just don't think it's as cut and dry as people are making it out to be because the standard everyone apparently wants applied, no one has bothered to spell out. Probably because it CAN'T be spelled out; it's a "know it when you see it" judgment call sort of thing. And there are a lot of situations I can think of where it'd be tough to decide what side of the ledger to come down on.
All of which is qualified by the fact that I don't really care if he should or shouldn't have done it because again, it was funny.