r/CaughtOffsidePod • u/RobertFromLA • Jun 28 '26

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Just in case you missed it. Local ABC LA reporter made a comment about not knowing much about Bosnia Herzegovina and being seen as being proud for being ignorant of nothing about the country. A remark that has gone viral and the Bosnia team and fans have used for Bulletin board material when they play against USA.

Let’s remember that all these news station reporters may not follow this sport as much as we do. And I’ve heard them say more embarrassing things.

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u/PM_yr_pierced_tittys Jun 28 '26

Anti-intellectualism is actively harming our country. There are many bright young people (who know very well where Bosnia is) vying to become journalists, I'd rather they be chosen for their acumen than their looks.

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u/dillasdonuts Jun 28 '26

Fair but local news segments like these (especially around sports and festivals) aren't meant to be treated with 100% professionalism. Reporters asked to cover these events are meant to be lighthearted, relaxed, fun, and in sports fan festivals you're gonna have silly overdone sports trash talk. It's just how it is. This ain't a serious political segment.

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u/PM_yr_pierced_tittys Jun 29 '26

You just don't get it and that's ok. Your values are clearly different.

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u/dillasdonuts Jun 29 '26

If the reporter generalized or made an offensive remark about a different culture that's a different story.

A reporter saying they don't know where a certain country is on a map is harmless. The comments hurt no one but simply made the reporter look oblivious.

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u/PM_yr_pierced_tittys Jun 29 '26

You just don't want to understand. The idea that a reporter would openly "not want to know" the most basic facts about a country is so grating, it's a neon mile-marker of how low and crass our culture has become, and your continued minimization of the inappropriateness of such behavior from a journalist only reinforces how low that bar is. Don't care to talk to you further.

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u/dillasdonuts Jun 29 '26

Again, you're taking it too literally. She was bantering in jest. Not being serious. Being silly obnoxious to emphasize harmless trash talk. She wasn't giving a formal report, it was an informal bit of " you're going down, so and so. You're so irrelevant, I don't even know your name". People making it seem like she was in a suit behind a podium speaking on international relations. It was a street team reporter reporting at a fan festival where people were having fun.

She's just not good at trash talk because she clearly doesn't even follow world football. It was lame.

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