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Full-court press Washington Post gets up close and personal with MJ
So roll over, Bob Woodward, -- tell Carl Bernstein the news. The Washington Post has assigned a reporter to cover Michael Jordan this season. Full time. Twenty-four/seven. Three hundred sixty-five days a year. The newest, most famous member of the Wizards is going to get the full-court press treatment normally accorded only presidents, poohbahs and other heads of state. Ugh. What are the scoops this intrepid journalist is supposedly going to unveil? Is he going to bring us daily updates on Michael's choice of hosiery, breakfast cereal or deodorant? Is he going to analyze every medium-range jumper, each no-look pass, maybe chart them out with those little graphic aids that newspapers seem to like so much these days? Is he going to bring us up close and personal with Michael's family, assorted friends and cooks and bottlewashers?
Is this only the beginning? Will the San Francisco Chronicle now assign a reporter to follow Barry Bonds every day, all the time? Will the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have its own man-to-man coverage of Mario Lemieux? Will this whole thing escalate, reporters assigned to every player on every roster, updates on each broken shoelace during a season? Will someone soon be giving us the details in the daily life of Martin Gramatica? Jorge Posada? Juli Inkster? Ugh. Michael Jordan plays basketball. Michael Jordan plays basketball very well. Until he starts giving press conferences in the Rose Garden, do we have to know a lot more? Leigh Montville appears regularly on CNN/Sports Illustrated. The opinions expressed here are solely those of the writer.
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