Houston Texans RB Arian Foster: ‘There’s No Real Journalism Anymore’

Houston Texans running back Arian Foster opened up with the Houston Chronicle about his disdain for the media and other topics in a recent interview.

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Arian Foster got some attention during training camp when the Houston Texans running back when he was issuing repetitive non-answers to questions from the Houston press corps in response to criticism he had received in the local papers.

It’s not certain when things went sideways between Foster and the Houston media, but it definitely went sideways for a spell.

This tweet from August, after all, doesn’t sound like a guy who is getting on well with the press:

When you don't give them what they want or expect, they chastise you. Don't put me in your little athlete box. #Staysuckafree
— feeno (@ArianFoster) August 14, 2014

But Foster, as part of a feature story by Brian T. Smith of the Houston Chronicle that will be published Sunday, opened up a bit about his issues with the media.

"“As people, we all individually, we love to claim onto that, ‘You know, don’t believe everything you read.’ We love that. But nobody does that. Everybody for the most part, the majority of people, kind of go along with whatever the media or the popular view says.“And I don’t. And I’m conscious of that. Especially kind of living in a fishbowl, you kind of really understand that everybody has an agenda. And that’s part of my quarrel with the media in general is like, I don’t think a lot of people take serious the fact that they hold people’s opinions in their hands.”"

Based on the interview, it appears the process is part of Foster’s beef.

"“It’s more of a pump out. Who can do it the fastest? Whereas journalism used to be in the ‘30s and ‘20s, journalism used to be taken seriously and you couldn’t even publish something unless it had three editors and reputable sources. So you had to crosscheck all your sources. So it actually had to go through a process.“Whereas now, it’s like, whoever gets the story out the fastest just to cause a headline or a buzz on Twitter or whatever, Facebook. That’s the world that we live in today. So that’s where my disdain for4 the media comes. It’s like there’s no real journalism anymore or it’s rare.“And I choose not to be a part of the show.”"

There’s more material there, but since there was a hurry to pump this story out, the process had to be cut short. Not at all like it was in the 1920s and 1930s, when Arian Foster was around to observe the best practices in the industry.

Oh, wait ….

Houston Texans running back Arian Foster opened up with the Houston Chronicle about his disdain for the media and other topics in a recent interview.

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