Penn State AD charged with perjury -- *UPDATE 2* Sandusky Arrested Again

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I'm not

 

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I shouldn't have to point this out, but just because someone feels badly about a pedophile's predicament doesn't mean that that someone is defending/excusing the pedophile's actions.

 

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This really is a hell of a deal for the rest of the season -- they have their three biggest games coming up, then potentially the first-ever Big Ten Championship game, then a bowl game that could be a BCS game. So my earlier note about forfeiting, I realize how unrealistic that is.

But what the hell do they do? Appoint an interim? Or let this follow Joe around for five more games over two more months?

 

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We're different then.

 

Re: Penn State AD charged with perjury in Sandusky investigation

more bullshit. How the fuck could anybody feel bad about the pedophiles predicament?

 

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Here's the other reason why everybody has to go: If you're a parent, and you've seen how PSU protected this predator, and did as little as possible to investigate him, would you want to send your daughter to Happy Valley?

Would you be confident that if she was assaulted by a football player that they wouldn't do everything in their power to discredit your daughter and sweep the whole thing under the rug.

The athletic program is supposed to serve the University, not the other way around.

Everyone involved put the football program ahead of anything else.

 

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Here's who has to go, so far:
Spanier.
Paterno.
McQuery.
Curley.
Schultz.
Anybody else who knew anything at any time and failed to call 911 (if an act was occurring) or University Park or State College police detectives or the states attorney (if learning of it after).
Appoint the school's faculty representative, if not implicated, as the acting athletic director, answerable to the board of trustees. And go from there.
If that means a five-man coaching staff Saturday, so be it.

 

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Because they are suffering from mental illness and not fully in charge of their actions. Same reason that I would feel bad about someone suffering from cancer or any other disease.

 

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I admit to knowing nothing about the papers that cover Penn State on a regular basis, aside from the links in this thread. The Harrisburg's editorial was great, until the end when it went soft on JoePa, as others have pointed out.
There have been references to some of the papers being Penn State homers. So say you're in charge of a local paper and you have a loyal readership because you are (or at least perceived to be) Penn State homers. What do you do this week? Certainly some of the fans are disgusted right now and want to know the details, but just as certainly a large portion of the fans don't believe it/don't care/hate the national media right now and still support JoePa and Penn State. This portion just wants to read and hear about this week's big game with Nebraska and wants the typical amount of homer coverage.
So if you're in charge of a homer paper do you bow down and give typical game week coverage, or do you take a journalistic stand and say enough is enough, knowing you could suffer in the pocketbook as a result?

 

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I get the temptation to "otherize" predatory pedophiles, but I don't agree with it. I think that's just an instinctual reaction to seeing someone so evil.

We all have impulses that we know we shouldn't act on. Some people act on them in a small way. If they get away with it, they try again a little bigger. And a little bigger. They go down the road to Hell one step at a time.

I'd be willing to wager that Sandusky didn't just wake up one day and decide to start a foundation to lure kids into his care so that he could sodomize them. He tried something small and got away with it. So he kept taking more steps, pushing it a little further.

And that's why Penn State football and Paterno's enabling is so vile. They implicitly granted him permission to go a few steps further.

 

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I feel terribly that anyone could be that messed up. Don't you?

 

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One other thing, which I know has been mentioned. What a horrible job the Penn State PR department has done on this.

As soon as they heard this, they needed to formulate a plan to minimize the damage as much as possible, even though, in this case, it may not have been possible.

Instead, we get a poorly-written press release, orders to the media on what questions they can ask, then a press conference canceled.

Some communications schools will be able to offer a class for the entire semester on this. Call it "What not to do in PR in a Crisis".