Widukind Diary Entry #23: Selena Roberts Sucks...Ass...Major Ass...And Cock

Selena Roberts needs to fucking die. She's got a new book coming out, A-Rod: The Many Lives of Alex Rodriguez, that traces Rodriguez's life back to when he was a child, exposing rumors and other stupid shit about how he probably used steroids in high school and probably about how he masturbated in the teacher's lounge in 4th grade or whatever. According to this article, the book also talks about how he has been a deceitful person his whole life; an example is how he claimed to have used wood bats in high school, despite pictures existing of him holding metal ones. Whatever. This is typical sports-journalist bullshit that we've all come to expect. Eyewitness accounts that will never, ever be substantiated; rumors from one person who knew somebody who rode the bus with A-Rod's dog walker who said they saw his neighbor fucking A-Rods housekeeper who told him that the dude was using 'roids, etc. Fine. She's a journalist. When someone gives her a quote that implies steroid usage, she can run with it, fair enough.
But wait a minute. Her book also sets out on quite an audacious task; her thesis, apparently, is that A-Rod's demeanor, his bizarre penchant for "lying" throughout his life stemmed from his father leaving the family when A-Rod was 10 years old. What? Who the flying FUCK does she think she is? Selena Roberts, you are a fucking journalist. Not a psychiatrist.
Let me explain. Here are some of her quotes from the article:

"I think like any child, you never want to be abandoned again... I think he always felt that he had to be better than good."

"I think in some ways he felt he had to be, you know, not just a great story, but a tall tale."

"He went through a phase where, I think, and maybe he's still going through the phase, I don't know, where he really I think felt as if he had transcended baseball and reached a different level with the public."

"I do think there's a very good Alex in there," said Roberts, who spent six months reporting and writing the book. "I think the good Alex has a very good shot at winning. I think the good Alex is there for all of us to see for the next nine years. ... No matter what stage he seems to go through, what sort of incarnation he seems to go through, I think that he is at heart a pretty tenderhearted person."

You are a journalist, shithead. You don't "think" things about people based on bullshit. As a journalist, you interview people, you use quotes (hopefully at least some from the person you're actually writing about), and you present the information you have retrieved. You don't go around forming theories of how the departure of someone's father at a young age affected their psyche later in life. That's some personal stuff, lady. You don't do that. Why this pisses me off so much is that this woman has basically made her career exposing A-Rod as a fraud, jerk, whatever, because he cheated the game of baseball. He used performance enhancing drugs when there were those in his same profession who were doing it by the books, and that's not fair.

But isn't this what Roberts is doing herself? This is not journalism. It's sensationalism. She is cheating the honest reporters out there who base their reports and books on concrete things people said or wrote that they found doing honest research with an honest goal. But the tabloids don't go ape-shit over those stories. People want to read about personal turmoil of their biggest stars; they want to see them go down in flames, even if it means writing about something as personal as the abandoning of a family by a father, and then making retarded conclusions that are based on nothing. You don't sell books by going by the books anymore. Selena Roberts knows this. Ergo, she=bitch.

What a hypocrite. Selena Roberts? You're fucking out.