Originally Posted by
Bloods05
That, in a nutshell, is precisely what is wrong with the football media (and I might add, a great deal of the political media as well, but that's another story). Mike Sheahan is a career journalist. That carries a responsibility to ask probing questions in the search for truth. If he is not prepared to do that, if the program is premised on him taking a soft line with his guests, then it is not worth a cracker and should be taken off air. At the very least, it should not pretend to be anything other than a matey chat show, and Sheahan, who can be a very good journalist, should stop pretending to be one.
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