Welcome to the Pac-10, Lane Kiffin

Been though five coach resignation/firing scenarios at Microville Tech. Every single coach stood up and answered the media's questions, on camera, as long as the media wanted, after said firing/resignation. Hell, one coach even did his Monday night radio show after he's "resigned."

Kiffin's a chickenshit scumbag for that stunt.

 

Oh, fucking spare me that.

Let's see how the print guys react when they're told how they are to cover a news conference. "He'll speak, but you may not use quotes and you may not put it on the front page." Think you'd have a problem with that?

Off camera is not off the record, but it's also virtually unusable for TV.

I said it before, I'll say it again: the school does not get to make editorial decisions. It's nice that someone finally refused to roll over to an asshole university administrator.

 

I didn't understand why he wouldn't go live if he was willing to be taped.

 

Gotta gree with Mr. PC.

TV without pictures is like radio without sound or newspapers without print. It is, essentially, pretty much worthless.

 

And you say this, forgetting Barbara Dooley's love of Tennessee?

 

She did tell my dad today, "I hate that color orange, but I guess I got to go buy some clothes in that color."

 

So what you are saying is television reporters are incapable of doing actual reporting? That gathering information for background is not a part of their job? That the only thing they are really capable of doing is taping other people talking? That is too much to ask them to be able to tell part of the story themself?

Yep, that's what I sort of figured. Thanks for confirming it for me.

 

I totally understand where the TV guy's coming from. Around a dozen years ago, a buddy of mine was working for a Florida station covering SEC basketball media day. Eddie Fogler drops a bomb accusing Billy Donovan of some sort of cheating, but he does it in the print room. In broadcast media, he didn't say a thing about it. When Fogler's comments hit the wire, his boss was threatening to fire him for "missing the big story". You never want to be in a position where something big may happen and you don't have access to it, especially with a proven loose cannon like Lane.

 

Jesus, I hit the "show" button for this?

 

All of that is fine, but none of even comes close to explaining why the douche from the TV station thought he was somehow making it better by ensuring that the only thing anyone would get was a 30 second statement read by Kiffin?

If Kiffin didn't want to talk on air -- and that station didn't want to feel like it was being dictated to -- then that station should have left.

I for one, however, think everyone in the room, including the TV guys, would have been better off had Kiffin came in and spoke before he went on the air.

There is nothing wrong with getting MORE information in order to put together a more complete story.

I know, that would require TV guys to be real journalists and that is probably asking too much, but that's how we are supposed to do things.

 

If Bud Ford was saying that paper and Internet guys could record video of all of it with their little flip videos and put it on their site or on YouTube, but the TV guy couldn't film the same, then the TV guy was within his right to not agree to that. My understanding on that point was never really clear. If it was no video of any kind for anyone for part of it, then a short on-camera bit, then I think you probably have to agree to that.

 

As long at the print guys are cool with news conferences where they're locked out of the room for 20 minutes while he talks to the TV crews, then lets the print guys in for the last couple minutes so he can toss them a few bullshit quotes for the paper. That's the equivalent.

Bottom line: you really don't have to agree to shit. I'll let an administrative control freak pull the plug before I'll let him tell me how I can cover news pertaining to his university.