Wade, McGinn didn't base his opinion off of that picture. He didn't even post that pcture with his story. I found that picture somewhere else.
His opinion is based off of what he has seen in camp so far, from the sideline. Of course, you would have known that if you would have actually read the article.
"IronMan" wrote:
I did read the article you linked. And in *it*, McGinn states his conclusions which include the statement that it has been "commonplace". If so, then I expect him to have reported on it before.
But since I don't read most of McGinn's writing (because you have to pay for it), I don't know whether he has been harping on this for some time or not. Which is why I asked what he's (McGinn) been saying before. It's not my responsibility as reader to pay money to check up on him, and I'm not going to do it.
Observation of one practice is not evidence of "commonplace" behavior. It's one practice. If he's dogging it in one practice, that's bad but explainable in lots of ways -- everyone has bad days, IMO. If he's regularly been dogging it, that's another matter entirely.
If McGinn has been reporting on Harrell's bad attitude and body language for some time, that's one thing. If he's generalizing from one practice to a "commonplace" practice, he's being journalistically irresponsible.
If you're a true journalist, you don't make that kind of claim without backing it up, either in the individual article itself (which IMO he categorically did not do here) or in previous articles (which he may or may not have done).
Of course, as NSD will tell us, most so-called journalists today don't bother worrying about any of this, so McGinn would just be illustrating, ahem, the commonplace "journalist" practice if he didn't either.
But it still is irresponsible reporting IMO.
That's what I'm saying about McGinn.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:2 (NKJV)