As a broadcast journalist, your job is to generate interest, not to kiss butt of the interviewee.
Radio and T.V Networks make money selling advertising, and they can't do it, if their content is "yes man boring".
I don't know if it was rigged or whatever, but I admire Finebaum, for standing his ground.
Coach Saban is possibly the best football coach ever, but he's not some non-accountable God!
He should answer legitimate questions, and he has a tendency to avoid that situation in controversial scenarios.
If I were a journalist, and was at the next press conference, my first question would be, "Coach, why are you holding up Maurice Smith's transfer"? I really wouldn't care what he said, I'd hammer him for any reason he gave. Maurice Smith isn't Nick Saban's slave, he's going to graduate in August, and deserves to go where he wants to go.
Is there anybody who wants to seriously argue with that?
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So if Finebaum gets a DUI and then charges are dropped 3 months later, based on his way of thinking he should still get his license suspended and insurance rates increased, just because he did something 'we' all view as illegal and that is what should fit the crime? Saban is upset because the media has made up their minds about what the punishment should be long before any real facts come out, most of which Finebaum has no clue what are and never will. He even admitted to this on tv yesterday. All Finebaum basses his view on is a stolen gun and pot. Sure, ask the questions all you want since no other media guy did, but leave your jury, judgement and executioner opinion out of it. I highly doubt Saban would have reacted the same way if Finebaum would not have made it known he did not agree with the punishment, which I think shocked Saban. My view on why Saban gets upset with the media, is because they are all stupid and are un prepared to have a logical conversation. They all ask the obvious with no real observations behind the questions. Finebaum generally does not do this during an interview, but he did yesterday. I think Saban put Finebaum in the same catagery as all the other media guys he deals with after yesterday, just another idiot with a laptop and tape recorder.