Dan Le Batard Declares Sports Journalism Dead After Shams Charania Broke NBA MVP News
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Updated · Fox News · May 20
Dan Le Batard Declares Sports Journalism Dead After Shams Charania Broke NBA MVP News
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 20
Dan Le Batard said sports journalism is “dead” during a podcast segment sparked by criticism of ESPN insider Shams Charania for revealing the NBA MVP before the league’s official announcement.
Le Batard argued streamers and modern media figures have “no interest” in journalism and said reporters have already lost that fight, framing the MVP leak as part of a broader collapse in standards.
The report casts that claim as hypocritical, pointing to Le Batard’s 2024 interview with Doug Emhoff, in which he did not ask about a Daily Mail report alleging Emhoff slapped an ex-girlfriend in 2012.
It also cites Le Batard’s hiring of Howard Bryant after Bryant’s arrest in an alleged assault case and his defense of Deadspin in the Chiefs fan blackface controversy, arguing his own record blurs journalism and activism.
Has the line between sports journalist and culture warrior blurred so much that objective standards no longer apply?
When media figures decry journalism's death, should their own ethical inconsistencies discredit their entire argument?