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re: Sorry Auburn. You're getting Marcello'd
Posted on 3/4/13 at 5:53 pm to whataboar
Posted on 3/4/13 at 5:53 pm to whataboar
The purpose of a beat writer shouldn't be as an antagonist to the university.
KV and Locke are both OM grads and it showed.
Marshmallow came from NWA.
KV spent most of his time covering MSU athletics by trying to win a Pulitzer for uncovering shite we were doing.
KV and Locke are both OM grads and it showed.
Marshmallow came from NWA.
KV spent most of his time covering MSU athletics by trying to win a Pulitzer for uncovering shite we were doing.
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Posted on 3/4/13 at 5:54 pm to MaroonNation
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the pank butthurt is palpable
wut?
Posted on 3/4/13 at 5:55 pm to MaroonNation
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The purpose of a beat writer shouldn't be as an antagonist to the university.
KV and Locke are both OM grads and it showed.
Marshmallow came from NWA.
KV spent most of his time covering MSU athletics by trying to win a Pulitzer for uncovering shite we were doing.
speaking of butthurt
Posted on 3/4/13 at 5:55 pm to RebFeBrees
you too
Posted on 3/4/13 at 5:59 pm to MaroonNation
Please enlighten me as to what I have to be butthurt about regarding your thread? A thread, by the way, that is nothing but you whining about yalls beat writers.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 6:05 pm to MaroonNation
Sure, there's some amount of decorum to maintain, especially when you deal with people every single day, but then there's doing your job. If there's an injury, your editor who never leaves a windowless room will ask "Did you ask him about the injury?" you can't say "I didn't ask him about the injury," because the paper wants to say that specific day "Coach declined to comment on the injury," and your editor wants to know you're not lazy and you're doing your job.
And don't say that you could print a disclaimer about a certain coach's injury policy, but that's giving some guy's personal policy authority over your newsroom.
And don't say that you could print a disclaimer about a certain coach's injury policy, but that's giving some guy's personal policy authority over your newsroom.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 6:17 pm to whataboar
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but that's giving some guy's personal policy authority over your newsroom.
Actually that is the policy of the Athletic Department, the same department your boss employees you to cover for the fans of that department to read about. The public pissing matches between State beat writers and the Athletic Department are as old as the fights between Democrats and Republicans. We are never given a fair shake in the print media in Mississippi. It would just be nice for once to have a beat writer for the largest paper in the state not be out of the loop with the athletic department because he annoys the shite out of the university and the MS State readers
But saying all of that I am sure that the Clarion Ledger is begging Richard Cross at this very moment to be the next Mississippi State beat writer
This post was edited on 3/4/13 at 6:20 pm
Posted on 3/4/13 at 6:32 pm to MaroonNation
Did you copy and paste that straight from genespage?
Posted on 3/4/13 at 6:47 pm to OBReb6
I remember all that anger being toward brad Locke. He was the one that kept asking about injuries. We should have electric shock installed in the damn seats. When Locke opens his mouth buzz his arse and say next question please. Brandon was not as bad as y'all are making him outt to be. I wish Brad Locke was the one we were losing.
This post was edited on 3/4/13 at 6:49 pm
Posted on 3/4/13 at 6:53 pm to MaroonNation
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Actually that is the policy of the Athletic Department
Either way it's someone else's policy and not a rule in a newsroom. If I'm a reporter and I get paid to cover the local school board or state legislature I certainly don't owe them anything. Furthermore, I would never let a school official tell me that it's their policy not to talk publicly about personnel matters if their superintendent just disappears.
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It would just be nice for once to have a beat writer for the largest paper in the state not be out of the loop with the athletic department because he annoys the shite out of the university and the MS State readers
That sounds like the athletic department's problem and some weird inferiority complex. When I worked in news I wanted the University of Arkansas to win every game because I'd much rather end the year covering them in New Orleans than covering them in Memphis at the Car Quest Bowl or whatever.
Anyway, I like State. You guys were the most welcoming to media and had the best food. I still think about the ice cream.
The worst was whatever aTm provided at Jerry World. The food was dry and cold, and their cannon smells like a persistant fart.
These are the real things that beat writers care about.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 6:55 pm to whosyourdawgy
The Original one to ask question was Marshmallow then Locke jumped in too and wouldn't shut up about it even after Mullen said "you know I don't answer questions about injuries, we have been over this every time"
Posted on 3/4/13 at 6:57 pm to whataboar
And then the school yanks your credentials
Posted on 3/4/13 at 6:59 pm to Slippery Slope
Isn't this the douchebag who is a a regular on Bo Bounds' show?
Posted on 3/4/13 at 7:02 pm to Jimmie Rustler
Al.com is garbage
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Posted on 3/4/13 at 7:05 pm to MaroonNation
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And then the school yanks your credentials
Man, if coaches yanked credentials for every reporter they didn't like you'd be left with no one you'd want to read left in the press room. And besides, credentials are given to papers and media outlets, not individual reporters unless they're freelancers.
If a coach gets mad at a reporter and stops talking to them, it only hurts their PR and hype machine. Also, being shitty to reporters doesn't work well in the long run. Bobby Petrino can tell you about that one.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 7:07 pm to Slippery Slope
He's replacing Woodberry and Goldberg, the standards weren't too high.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 7:08 pm to Slippery Slope
State fans always think their beat writers are closet Ole Miss fans that are out to influence recruits and local / national media in Ole Miss' favor.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 7:09 pm to whataboar
And all that said, I know how agonizing it is when some a-hole keeps asking the same question over and over during a presser in hopes the person will answer it a different way. We can talk all day about ineffective and inefficient reporting, but just reporting and sticking to your guns is okay. You're better for it. I just wish that every reporter covering the state legislatures would do the same thing.
Posted on 3/4/13 at 7:11 pm to OBReb6
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Posted by OBReb6 Did you copy and paste that straight from genespage?
Never been to Genespage. Your mom actually helped me write it because she agrees with me
BRB. She here
Posted on 3/4/13 at 7:12 pm to sorantable
Yes! Yes we do. And most Bears think their beat writers are closet Bulldogs. Nature of the beast.
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