Lane Kiffin Pre-Press Conference Drama

You don't own a single piece of furniture with a Do Not Remove tag still attached to it, do you?

 

I bet he goes for a swim immediately after dinner, too. The rebel.

 

Hey. I might be a rebel, but I'm not crazy.

 

Runs with scissors too.

 

Yep

 

This isn't an apples-to-apples comparison, but close enough.

In 2007, the Deseret News and the Daily Herald stopped covering the Orem Owlz, a Rookie-level baseball team, for a few months because the team tried to dictate coverage.

The owner or owners didn't want the papers referring to the baseball stadium as Brent Brown Ballpark because they had a dispute over the stadium's owners, Utah Valley University, over the renaming of the stadium.

The team wanted the papers to refer to the park as the "Home of the Owlz." The papers refused and stopped covering the team, because the team would have pulled credentials unless the paper acquiesced.

Of course the team needed coverage more than the papers needed the team, so the Owlz owner backed off.

 

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Society of Professional Journalists has chosen Knoxville television news director Bill Shory to receive its annual Ethics in Journalism Award.
Shory is news director of WBIR-TV.
Shory defied University of Tennessee athletic officials’ insistence on Jan. 12 that media recording devices be switched off during part of a news conference at which it was announced Lane Kiffin was leaving as head football coach.
In his letter of nomination, Knoxville News Sentinel Editor Jack McElroy wrote that Shory deserved the award because he showed the media are the eyes and ears of the public.

 

Cool.

 

Good for the SPJ.

 

And they say sports guys aren't real journalists ...

 

Fixed.