Georgia Football: Isaiah McKenzie In the Clear, a Reader’s Lesson Remains
The Isaiah McKenzie Incident is now behind us. At least one reporter got it just about right – hopefully, the good work goes unpunished.
Related: It happened at Chili’s
Isaiah McKenzie will not be charged with making terroristic threats at Chili’s.
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And we were just getting started.
Jason Butt of the macon.com reports that according to a spokesperson of the police department the “victim declined to prosecute so the case is closed.”
Sounds a lot like, “Alright, break it up.”
Move along, nothing to see here.
Butt, to his great credit, reported the event in an even handed, fair fashion yesterday and is one of the first to report that no charges will be filed.
In Butt’s report, “McKenzie was not arrested or charged with a crime.”
He was not “accused”, nothing was “alleged”
Move along, nothing to see
Thank you, Mr. Butt.
In Butt’s report, “The [incident] report lists four witnesses on site, which are Georgia football players.”
Football players were not “listed in the police report”, football players were not “mentioned in the police report.”
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Thank you, Mr. Butt.
Jason Butt will not receive a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on this story. If anything, for not milking it for a few more page views, he will be penalized by his readership.
I write, but I am not a writer. The only ethics classes I took were on Sunday mornings and at the dining room table. I occasionally received a lesson across my backside. I know right when I see it. Jason Butt doesn’t care what I think and he shouldn’t. But I think pretty well of him right now, anyway.
Unfortunately, football is news in the Empire State of the South and Mr. Butt did his job.
If any other 19 or 20-year-old man got into a beef at Chili’s with a 20-year-old woman and no charges were filed and no one was arrested at the time, the incident is never noted. No one aside from the man’s momma and the woman’s daddy care.
But, football players are the dog that bite than man. They’re news, they sell papers, and they earn writers internet page views.
It’s not fair, but we know why they are news.
You are why.
I am why.
Did you not click through to the McKenzie story yesterday afternoon and evening – all evening long.? Did you not read every story that popped up on facebook and came across your twitter feed?
Did your fingers not sprint across your keyboard to the message boards?
Me, too.
I am not here to chastise the human race for its human nature. The next time a football player is in the news, we’ll do it again.
But I know who’s report my fingers will run to next time.