IncuboRossonero said:
@ Swag, Pado and others: Sorry but telling off an official for calling a bad match is one thing: Locking him up in a room is forcible confinement and a crime.
And as a crime, it should be pursued as one. And not as an organized act for which an entire club is held responsible for his actions.
Secondly, giving journalists like Biscardi a rolex to speak about things you want and downplay other things that don't favour you is against all that journalism stands for.
But since when has journalistic integrity become a core tenet of team Fair Play?
And if anything, this underscores a failure of ethics on behalf of the
journalists.
The entire public relations industry was founded on, and is funded on, the notion of influencing the media to reflect as favorable an image as possible of their clients. They offer corporate freebies, spin, wining and dining the influencers, etc. -- though most often they offer journalists the gift of laziness by offering to find and wholly write their stories for them. But yet nobody is suggesting that its existence constitutes corporate crime.
Thirdly, speaking frankly with the head of the officials as Moggi did and saying you want to see the ref gone AND dining at his house and bringing him gifts CROSSES the line....gifts (checkers anyone...Tricky Dicky Nixon) is a gift when you are in a certain position and the fact that someone who should be unbias is receiving gifts and Juve jerseys none the less speaks volumes about his impartiality.
This is definitely code-of-ethics type stuff. Conflicts of interest, etc., abound in Serie A should be included in some real refinement of a clear code of ethics for the league.
But like the above example, I would say this is more reflective of a failure of
referee ethics than anything. Moggi is a complete sleazeball for doing it (though I doubt he's the only one who tried). But for comparison, corporate ethics policies have to deal with these conflicts of interest all the time.
The sales guy for a vendor offers you tickets to the baseball game, and the next thing you know... And it happens to senators and congressmen in the U.S. too, and that's just the U.S. government. And as it is, while in very poor ethical taste for the "donor", code of ethics behavior in government and corporations puts the responsibility on the potential receiver for what they should and should not accept. It is not a crime for a lobbyist to offer a senator, or a sales guy to offer a potential corporate client, a gold watch. But it's a big ethical problem should the person decide to accept it.
So let's remember what side of the equation matters most in these examples. These last two examples speak volumes about the ethical breakdown of journalism and referees. They say much less about any criminal guilt of Juve or Moggi in anything.
If distinctions like this aren't made and it's made to focus instead on Juve, every crime gets diluted in this mess. Let's make sure who gets pointed out for the core failure in each of these situations.
The popularity and ubiquity of Hitler analogies only serves to make Hitler a common criminal.