Jim Ross Discusses Nancy Grace and Colin Cowherd Incidents

Television moguls Nancy Grace and Colin Cowherd both made headlines over the past two days regarding their stances on the death of The Ultimate Warrior and steroids in professional wrestling.

For those who missed, Grace insinuated that steroid usage is rampant in wrestling, and that many men, including those who did not, like Owen Hart, all died from the drugs. WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross offered his own insight on his personal blog.

Regarding Grace:

“The polarizing Nancy Grace of HLN really was made to look ill informed and poorly prepared by her staff Wednesday night on her report of the death of the Ultimate Warrior. So much erroneous info was reported as fact that I actually felt bad for her. I’d like to believe that Ms Grace is not a mean person but she let down by her producers and research people notwithstanding those who wrote her script for her teleprompter.

For Ms Grace to implicate Owen Hart into any drug or steroid scandal is egregious and appalling.”

Ultimately, he believes this is a trend in television and journalism in general.

“Ms Grace was made to look incompetent by her own people who seemingly relied on old info for the thrust of their story on Warrior and apparently did little new research on the sports entertainment world as it exists today.

I’d like to say that I’m surprised by I’m not. Sensationalistic, controversial journalism is what sells and ‘selling’ IE ratings is all that matters when it comes to TV news on virtually every network.”   

He also touched on Cowherd, the ESPN Radio host who too blasted the wrestling industry.

“Same goes for Colin Cowherd of ESPN who has had the basic same stance on pro wrestling since he became a shock jock-like TV character on ESPN. Cowherd plays the role of a broadcasting antagonist on television, IE a heel, and he can’t be positive about ‘rasslin’ or show compassion for a dead man’s family as it would apparently adversely affect his show biz persona.

Cowherd is a talented guy and likely a decent man but his pro wresting bias act is getting old and stale and comparing today’s product to the tragedies of a decade or two ago isn’t good journalism and make Cowherd look like he’s grasping for ratings with heat seeking remarks.”   

The entire blog can be found here.

Editor’s Note

J.R., as usual, hits it dead on the head here. As a prospective journalist myself, it is embarrassing to see this happening on television. Pundits, all of them.

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