News and Sports

As you might know, the past week was a big one for events in the sports world in Buffalo, particularly football, with Buffalo Bills' owner Ralph Wilson deciding to part ways with former general manager and president Tom Donohoe (a good decision, in my opinion).
But what caught my attention the most, and annoys me, is the fact that too many media outlets, especially broadcast media, treated the events around the firing of Donohoe, the retaining of coach Mike Mularkey (not the right decision, IMHO) and the hiring of former coach Marv Levy as general manager as, for lack of better words, real news, and assigned news reporters instead of sports reporters, broke into regular programming to carry the press conferences live and led newscasts and used front pages to announce the news.
Sorry, folks, this is sports, or sports news if you will, and not real news, again, if you will. No one's tax rates, rent, law enforcement, political representation or other conditions or status were affected, except for the direct three, four or five people involved, and not one news reporter uncovered and presented a single interesting fact a sports reporter could not have done.
Yes, I know that Buffalo/Western New York is sports crazy to a fault, but don't think that I am a sports hater; I blogged about University of Wisconsin sports a few days ago (and will probably do so again tomorrow), but more importantly, my first journalism job out of college was, yep, as a sports reporter, and I was fortunate enough to earn a first-place New York Press Association award for sports coverage.
But sports are real news? Um, yeah, but no. If you have to, take a few seconds in a broadcast to mention the firing or hiring, and then let the sports reporters report it during the sports part of the broadcast.