How to read an MLB.com article if you must

• From Helene Elliott interview in Sports Media Guide, 9/12/06:

"Q. Are writers for the league websites doing real journalism? Mlb.com for example?

• A. It's an arm of Major League Baseball. If you are an mlb.com correspondent and you start writing things critical of Bud Selig do you think you would keep your job? It may not be edited by MLB but MLB would remember what you wrote. When it came time to pick the correspondents for next season they would go in another direction.

Q. How should readers approach league sites?

• A. With healthy skepticism."

From Sports Media Guide interview with Helene Elliott, 9/12/06, last item in interview Ms. Elliott was hired as a baseball writer by the LA Times and covered the Angels for 3 years, reported on other sports as well for the LA Times, hockey 'on and off since 1980,' stated in the interview. Became a general sports columnist in September, 2006.

• Posted originally here 9/6/07

One voice, one government, no questions. Lots of money.

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