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Message: [QUOTE="Dogdeacon, post: 2550549, member: 1026"] Huh? These are people doing a job, its somewhat true that they respond, write, investigate and report what the public wants - because that's their job to sell newspapers/attract eyeballs. Its not like reporters received fat contracts b/c they glossed over problems or didn't do their job thoroughly enough - whereas lots of MState administrators and coaches were. AND THEIR JOB IS TO LOOK AFTER THESE STUDENTS/KIDS! Lots of people had a role in this long debacle, but to simultaneously blame reporters for not investigating it thoroughly enough and then digging in too deep once it breaks is hypocritical. Why do reporters need to be held accountable? They were not in charge and missing a story is far different than covering one up. Multiple people at MState favored the accused over victims, the media covers these things mostly for fans of the team - so its hardly surprising that fans reward the good stories. Does the UConn board jump all over Jeff Jacobs?! We don't want to hear it. We know our athlete 'heroes' might not be role models or even good people, we primarily care about their performance on the court - after that just stay out of the news would be 90% of fans perspective. So we never cared/read/clicked before either. For example I never read the stories that started coming out 1-year+ ago about USA gymnastics cuz I thought, duh - just look at those girls every Olympics - the sport obviously is insular and obsessive and you can read it on almost every gymnast's face. MState football & basketball is in trouble b/c of gymnastics unveiled a systemic problem, but bigger fan bases of those sports were equally complicit in looking the other way and wanting to believe their program was clean. [/QUOTE]

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