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Coach Miles cited for negligent driving/article

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HuskerCager

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Lame article.  The Husker coach rear-ended someone.  That's news?  Are you kidding?  They tried to pull as much meaningless "stuff" as they could out of that accident report to stretch things into a story, but failed in the attempt. 

Well, they are also giving Miles a lot of positive coverage about him taking people out to lunch on a whim, etc.  Are those lame articles?

People in highly public venues should expect a lot of coverage about themselves.  The good and the not so good.  I bet TM has no qualms about the local media covering this accident whatsoever.

Huskerpapa

Huskerpapa

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Lame article.  The Husker coach rear-ended someone.  That's news?  Are you kidding?  They tried to pull as much meaningless "stuff" as they could out of that accident report to stretch things into a story, but failed in the attempt. 

Well, they are also giving Miles a lot of positive coverage about him taking people out to lunch on a whim, etc.  Are those lame articles?

People in highly public venues should expect a lot of coverage about themselves.  The good and the not so good.  I bet TM has no qualms about the local media covering this accident whatsoever.

 

I agree yet disagree.  I understand our coaches and players are under a microscope, yet these are human beings and not every event has to be a "story."  Yet it is the sensationalism that sells the ads and papers.  Sad, but true. 

 

I have lived a large segment of my life in this fine City and State.  I have had cars vandalized, incidents occur and events happen, both good and bad that never makes it on the news or in the paper.  I personally witnessed something that Coach Pelini did that was over and above his "job."  It wasn't reported. 

 

News is what others tell us it is.  Think about that for a minute. 

HuskerCager

HuskerCager

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I agree yet disagree.  I understand our coaches and players are under a microscope, yet these are human beings and not every event has to be a "story."  Yet it is the sensationalism that sells the ads and papers.  Sad, but true. 

 

 

I have lived a large segment of my life in this fine City and State.  I have had cars vandalized, incidents occur and events happen, both good and bad that never makes it on the news or in the paper.  I personally witnessed something that Coach Pelini did that was over and above his "job."  It wasn't reported. 

 

News is what others tell us it is.  Think about that for a minute. 

 

I don't know what, if anything was sensationalized in the article.  They just reported the facts and got a quote from TM in the process.  When you or I go out to lunch with a couple of strangers, it doesn't make the papers.  It does with TM.  Same thing happens with a traffic ticket.  Look, it's unfair to expect our local papers to report just the good stories.  It should never be that way.  Expecting anything else is asking our local media to compromise it's journalistic integrity.

Again, I think TM would be the first to tell you that all of this is fair game.  He is taking an intentional walk to get his name in the paper every chance he gets.  And along with that, the basketball program.  Good for him!  And he knows that along with that, little things like traffic violations are going to make the paper as well.  That's fair.  As Lee Barfknecht has said, TM "gets it" when it comes to media coverage.

Norm Peterson

Norm Peterson

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I agree yet disagree.  I understand our coaches and players are under a microscope, yet these are human beings and not every event has to be a "story."  Yet it is the sensationalism that sells the ads and papers.  Sad, but true. 

 

 

I have lived a large segment of my life in this fine City and State.  I have had cars vandalized, incidents occur and events happen, both good and bad that never makes it on the news or in the paper.  I personally witnessed something that Coach Pelini did that was over and above his "job."  It wasn't reported. 

 

News is what others tell us it is.  Think about that for a minute. 

 

I don't know what, if anything was sensationalized in the article.  They just reported the facts and got a quote from TM in the process.  When you or I go out to lunch with a couple of strangers, it doesn't make the papers.  It does with TM.  Same thing happens with a traffic ticket.  Look, it's unfair to expect our local papers to report just the good stories.  It should never be that way.  Expecting anything else is asking our local media to compromise it's journalistic integrity.

Again, I think TM would be the first to tell you that all of this is fair game.  He is taking an intentional walk to get his name in the paper every chance he gets.  And along with that, the basketball program.  Good for him!  And he knows that along with that, little things like traffic violations are going to make the paper as well.  That's fair.  As Lee Barfknecht has said, TM "gets it" when it comes to media coverage.

 

I don't see where you get that I think that there should only be positive coverage of the coach.  I'm not saying that at all.

 

What I am saying is that there wasn't enough there to make a story out of it, good or bad.  It's not interesting, period.

 

When details were scarce and there was concern about whether everyone was OK, it was clearly worthy of interest.  But after it was clear that everyone was pretty much OK, it's like why bother?  

 

Next headline tease we'll hear:  "Coach Miles drops an 'F' bomb; details at 10."

Norm Peterson

Norm Peterson

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" 'We interviewed one eye-witness at the Casey's General Store who saw the drama unfold ...

 

'Yeah, I was waiting to use the can and there was a guy in there taking an EXTRA long time -- and I mean EXTRA long -- and I knocked on the door and said, "Hey, buddy, you need some help?" and he just, well, he used the F-bomb at me.  And he came out and it was Coach Miles of the basketball team there.'

 

Rod, back to you."

Huskerpapa

Huskerpapa

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I do not dislike our media members.  In fact I like the majority of them.  I simply dislike what many in the media are forced to become.  It isn't just today, it has been a curse since news had to be sold. 

Hooper

Hooper

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I was able to get the text of the tweet that caused this accident:

 

"I'm halfway home from work. Gonna have to get much better than 25.6 MPG in the second half of this drive home if I want good gas mileage."

49r

49r

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I was able to get the text of the tweet that caused this accident:

 

"I'm halfway home from work. Gonna have to get much better than 25.6 MPG in the second half of this drive home if I want good gas mileage."

 

Well played.

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