Indy Star apologizes to Coach K for illustration

Interesting to see that the AP ran a long item of this on the wire, along with a photo of the front page that had the illustration.
I thought Coach K looked good with the cartoon-y mustache. He should grow one.

 

He had a big whiny apology on the op-ed today.

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=20104030322

 

I have no idea what the uproar is. I didn't earlier today, and I still don't now.

 

At least they didn't have Coach K eating a McGangbang.

 

I think Coach K being the good coach that he is used it as opportunity to motivate / take pressure of the kids.

 

What kind of a fucking workflow do they have where not even the copy editor or slot person sees what art is with the story they are editing and writing jumpheads for?

 

No shit. If that's common, this won't be the last of the sports-page fuck-ups.

 

The story idea is old and outdated. It has been done thousands of times. I know they're back in the Final Four after a long absence by their standards, but it's still a cliche.

 

This discussion, and Coach K's reaction to it, are exactly why newspapers will endure, albeit likely in a much different role:

Our opinion matters.

What newspapers print is expected to be above what is heard on the radio, on TV or read on the Internet. While those mediums have their advantages, newspapers (and their perceived old fashioned method of news dissemination) simply are held to a higher standard.

If any one of a hundred Web sites or TV shows had done the same thing as the Indy Star, they would have received a pass; media consumers, to some extent, expect childishness of them. What they say is rarely saved for posterity's sake, mostly slipping into the ether of the media noise. Alternatively, people fill scrapbooks with newspaper articles, come to us when they want the "real story." The ink is there forever.

Newspapers are the adults at the media party. Have a beer bong with a blogger, make out in the closet with a TV journalist, but when the cops show up or you want the place cleaned up in the morning -- you come to newspapers. And we don't doodle on pictures.

 

The fact that this is any kind of controversy whatsoever just absolutely baffles me.