"If sports got reported like science"

June 18, 2010

Items of Interest: If sports got reported like science

A couple of times recently I've heard people complaining that sports coverage in the news is expected to be highly technical and laced with jargon, but that if a science or technology story uses any specialist language or jargon whatsoever it's derided publicly as "elitist" and "inaccessible".   Let's take a trip to a parallel universe..