Where have all the journalist gone?
Journalists, your job is to make the powerful folks uncomfortable, not to aid and comfort them.
I follow a certain college football program. I’ve been doing this my entire life. There’s never been a time when I wasn’t a fan of the program. This team is not only the only show in town, but they’re the only show in the entire state. There’s no other Division 1 college programs, nor any professional programs (in any sport) to compete with them.
Their stadium becomes the third largest city in the state on game day. Heck, they’ve been selling every seat in the place since before I was born. You can imagine how closely tied the local economy is to their success (this goes for the media business as well). People lose their businesses when the team is losing, and they’ve been doing so for, I don’t know, a decade or so now.
They fired their head coach two weeks ago. They could have waited three weeks and cut his buyout in half, but they needed to get rid of him in a hurry. That’s how bad things had gotten. To be clear, nobody really cares about the extra $7.5 million he got, they’re just glad to be done with his losing ways.
That said, the dismissal of the coach did come as a bit of a surprise. Normally, coaches are fired at the end of a season and the…
