Shameful: Couric's softball interview with Mayweather

[JCS]

glad someone brought this up. be warned the article is poorly written, but the point is clear.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more- ... -1.2172000



An absolute a failure in journalistic integrity. Floyd should be taken to task for his past history of domestic abuse, not given softball interviews.

Because it makes sense to keep rehashing a negative unrelated past rather than focus on the present.

[ReggieDiggs]

The United States killed a ton of innocent civilians during WWII with a nuclear f#cking bomb. Should the US still be answering questions about that every time another country talks to us. "Hey we're looking to export some bananas with you guys....but ummm first we'd kinda like to hear the nuking innocent people story one more time". At some point you gotta quit harping on things. The media knows this. Haters don't understand the concept.

[chucktaylor]

Why does she have some responsibility to try to stir sh*t up with him? Maybe that wasn't the goal of the interview. FMJ has received plenty of negative press over the years over his various personal issues. I don't see what Couric would accomplish by bringing those things up anyway and she probably didn't want to compromise the interview by pissing him off.

[ReggieDiggs]

Maybe that wasn't the goal of the interview.

Exactly. Plus I'd assume at certain levels of media/celebrity, that Katie & Floyd are probably among, they talk beforehand about what'll be talked about & what won't be talked about or a list is given by a manager or publicist to the interviewer that'll say topics or questions that'll be off the table. From there the interviewer & interviewee can decide if they wanna go forward with it.

[caldo2025]

Aside from the prison time, the public has brushed FMJ's abusive past aside like it never happened. This is not a good guy we're talking about here. If you think that this was the first and only time that he's laid his hands on a woman than you are naive. IMO, and i've been saying this for years, once the bright lights are gone and there's no more fights to make, FMJ will end up in jail or dead. He's not Tyson or a SRL who can hang around in the public eye because of his personality. Once the interview requests are gone and his star dims, you will see.

[Badhusker]

glad someone brought this up. be warned the article is poorly written, but the point is clear.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more- ... -1.2172000



An absolute a failure in journalistic integrity. Floyd should be taken to task for his past history of domestic abuse, not given softball interviews.

It would be like a reporter asking Manny about his past mistakes with adultery, animal abuse, drug use, association with criminals, etc. You hear very little about that stuff, and rightfully so. Not everyone dwells on past mistakes.

[caldo2025]

Tyson's personality? Your memory lapse is laughable

Floyd doesn't have a marketable personality like Tyson so your comparison is a swing and miss. Do you think people are going to want to sit around listening to how great Floyd is when he's no longer fighting in the ring? You're delusional. His interviews are clumsy and awkward. He says the same things over and over again. Waste of time.

[amwsnw]

Get over it. The biggest fight in history is on our doorstep and that's what should be concentrated on. The other issues, as serious as they are and I am not for one minute trying to down play it, has been done to death and in the eye's of the law governing the good ol' USA FMJ has paid his dues. Shite, he had to answer more questions and scrutiny about his indiscretions than Manny ever did. I think Couric did ok not to bring any of it up.

[DaveyMac]

The United States killed a ton of innocent civilians during WWII with a nuclear f#cking bomb. Should the US still be answering questions about that every time another country talks to us. "Hey we're looking to export some bananas with you guys....but ummm first we'd kinda like to hear the nuking innocent people story one more time". At some point you gotta quit harping on things. The media knows this. Haters don't understand the concept.

Um...you know the Germans killed a few innocent civilians in that war too, not like we had some monopoly on it.

[DaveyMac]

Get over it. The biggest fight in history is on our doorstep and that's what should be concentrated on. The other issues, as serious as they are and I am not for one minute trying to down play it, has been done to death and in the eye's of the law governing the good ol' USA FMJ has paid his dues. Shite, he had to answer more questions and scrutiny about his indiscretions than Manny ever did. I think Couric did ok not to bring any of it up.

The biggest fight in history? Lol.
Maybe it will be the biggest fight of the year. I doubt it is one of the 20 biggest fights ever.

[Rodian]

no doubt if Floyd was a white dude with a bad history she'd lay into him good.

[ReggieDiggs]

The United States killed a ton of innocent civilians during WWII with a nuclear f#cking bomb. Should the US still be answering questions about that every time another country talks to us. "Hey we're looking to export some bananas with you guys....but ummm first we'd kinda like to hear the nuking innocent people story one more time". At some point you gotta quit harping on things. The media knows this. Haters don't understand the concept.

Um...you know the Germans killed a few innocent civilians in that war too, not like we had some monopoly on it.

My point has nothing to do with Germans in WWII

What in the hell

Got me Bnovelist-level loling.

[KBB]

glad someone brought this up. be warned the article is poorly written, but the point is clear.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more- ... -1.2172000



An absolute a failure in journalistic integrity. Floyd should be taken to task for his past history of domestic abuse, not given softball interviews.

So let me get this straight, Floyd has went to jail already and served time for this and yet you still feel that he should be given more time or some other type of punishment? How much does it take for a black man to be forgiven?

I'm going to use this man as an example: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/16/roe ... .incident/

No one is still mentioning these rape charges vs him in every interview but yet whenever someone speaks about Michael Vick the thing with the dogs still follows him and is brought up, how about Michael Jackson, the man is dead for Christ's sake and yet people are still making news about him paying people off and whatnot in regards to supposedly molesting kids. I can bring many more examples if anyone would like.

These are just some examples of how things are still being carried on in regards to men who have paid their dues already and shouldn't be judged any longer on their past because society has given them a second chance and they never made those alleged mistakes again but yet anytime they are mentioned or interviewed the first thing that is brought up is their past or their past convictions.

Would you rather they took Floyd out and hung him from a tree??