FIU doesn't issue Miami Herald beat writer a credential

Funny that when you get through the vitriol, you find this:

"The Sun Sentinel welcomes civil dialogue about our stories ..."

 

"Bethune friggin' Cookman?"

 

Here's what made "Bethune friggin Cookman" vs. FIU kind of interesting to me: Miami Herald didn't have a writer there. Daytona Beach's writer stayed behind, wrote off television and was assisted by "Bethune friggin Cookman" sports communications for post-game quotes. So you had an FBS game in a major media market that had no newspapers covering it. Do us media communications folk need to start being sincere when we thank writers for coming to the games?

 

Thanks, BC SID! I know how to shake up a room ...

 

Since I know you're not a douchebag, I'll just use this thread to start a running joke.

From here on out, you're "Jr Frigging Shotglass."....

 

I take it the Sun Sentinel, Palm Beach Post and Miami New Times all never cover Florida International? Now would be a good time for the New Times to consider jumping on board, then producing an investigation about the thin-skinned athletics department after the season.

 

Yes, because I'm sure there's such an enormous demand for FIU sports coverage.

 

They ran the entire wire story as a service to Bethune-Cookman's fans (B-C is located in Daytona Beach).

 

Butch Ward at Poynter raises a terrific point:
If the paper really wanted to make the statement, the beat reporter would have bought a ticket to the game and written the story from the stands. Just because you don't have access to the press box, players or coaches doesn't mean you can't do your job.

http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/266669/journalists-are-losing-access-but-the-public-still-expects-the-story/

 

Um, actually it does, when you can't get their perspective on what happened in the game.

That column reads like someone who has spent a little too much time in the think-tank and not enough time actually doing the work. He actually said that, like government, if the athletes don't talk to you, then talk to the people affected by it. Um, dummy, that means a bunch of fan reaction stories, which, while they MAY make good sidebars, aren't a substitute for the actual nuts and bolts over what happened in the game, nor allows the reporter to actually get information on the team that the fan might want to know.

He lost me when quoted the guy who said baseball photogs don't need to be down the baselines, that they can shoot from the stands. Sure, to get a different shot on occasion. But what if they're forced to do so. On a regular basis because the team is being a douche?

 

Poynter proves its irrelevance to actual working journalists, Take No. 438.

What's the point in going to the game if none of the advantages to going to the game are available? This decision clearly was a standoff, and now you want the newspaper to actually pay the football team for its thin-skinned idiocy? At best, watch it on TV.