[sumo] Update On Davaa Batbayar

[Carl Freire]

At 8:24 AM -0400 6/30/08, jdemund at aol.com wrote:
>In the article, interestingly, there is NO mention of his shikona despite
>the fact that he is semi-quoted as saying part of his popularity is due to
>his sumo career.

Well, it looks like the Reuters reporter is based in Beijing, so she 
probably doesn't really follow sumo and--pick one of the 
following--(1) didn't know that sumo wrestlers are given wrestling 
names, (2) knew it but because of her insufficient knowledge or 
interest didn't know that might make a better way of identifying him, 
or (3) stuck it in, but a decision was made at an editor's desk 
higher up the food chain that "well, that's nice that you know that, 
but he's not a sumo wrestler so we don't really need that 
information, do we?"

Not all that interesting, if you ask me, but then again I've been in 
and out of the media business over the years and know how these 
things can work.  In my opinion, they would have had a slightly 
better article by including it since you want to give readers 
whatever information you can to help them contextualize the story and 
adding "who wrestled under the name Kyokushuzan" would helped at the 
cost of only six more words--not a heavy hit by 
trim-everything-you-can-and-then-some wire service standards--but 
sometimes these things slip under the radar and before you know it 
you're dealing with the next crisis.

Interesting news, tho'.

Cheers,
Carl
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Carl Freire
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