Dan Le Betard: “It felt to me like the game changed forever that day”
Miami Herald |
March 8, 2010 4:44 p.m.
"I remember the first time I felt the shift," Dan Le Betard writes, adding, "It was while viewing a photograph of Alex Rodriguez that made me feel dirty in June 2007. He was getting on a hotel elevator late at night with a curvy blonde woman who wasn’t his wife. It was gotcha! gossip disguised as . . . what? Investigative journalism? Regardless, it was in a major American newspaper. And it felt to me like the game changed forever that day. America’s endless entitlement and fascination with celebrities had never made its way into sports journalism in that way before, with a New York Post photographer blurring the line between private and public by secretly taking pictures that could wreck a man’s family. . . . I guess I sort of/maybe/kind of understand covering the politician or pope or people of real power this way. . . . But the third baseman?"
