Media Coverage: DMN/SMU vs Chron/UH

[Longtime]

DMN spent the money to send Kate to all SMU road football games last season, at a time when it is cutting corners so sharply it has entered into coverage agreements with its competitor, the Star-Telegram, to save travel costs on Rangers and other colleges.

Also, DMN did more stories on SMU spring football this year than it has in decades. DMN seemed to care more about spring football than JJ did.

[Topper]

UH is an arguably legit top 25 team with a true Heisman candidate. Watch what happens to coverage when we're there.

DMN ownership has longstanding ties to UT. No one will argue that UT has more readership interest than SMU, but historically the local coverage of SMU sports has been done grudgingly and with little enthusiasm. It is extrememly unlikely that SMU will ever get a "pass" from the hometown media. No doubt we have given the negative journalists plenty of fodder over the years, but I have always felt that the DMNs and Dale Hansens of the world would never go after UT the way they went after us. We are expendable. Journalists can sacrifice our program for the sake of going after media awards by exposing the well documented corruption once fostered around here, but no one had the guts to tell the truth about UTs dirty secrets.

DMN owned by Belo which is a publicly traded company. What are the longstanding ties between their current ownership and UT?

I should have said management. The owners back when the media delighted in covering our bad practices (and no one elses) were the Dealeys who were UT all the way. Currently, the Publisher and Chief Executive Officer is James Moroney, UT, '83. I don't know of the DMN ever being run by anyone who wasnt UT. Moroney is a descendant of George Dealey, and is the son of James Moroney, Jr. , former Chairman of the Board of Belo, and himself a UT graduate.

[jtstang]

Gosh, maybe that's the way it is because UT has a good journalism program? If what you want out of a newspaper is positive SMU stories most all the time just read the Daily Campus.

People who still complain about the Morning News coverage after the last year or so really need a hobby.

[mr. pony]

Gosh, maybe that's the way it is because UT has a good journalism program? If what you want out of a newspaper is positive SMU stories most all the time just read the Daily Campus.

People who still complain about the Morning News coverage after the last year or so really need a hobby.

Complaining about the DMN IS my hobby.
And that will continue until they quit listing SMU as an "area school" in their overviews and previews.

[Wuba]

Gosh, maybe that's the way it is because UT has a good journalism program? If what you want out of a newspaper is positive SMU stories most all the time just read the Daily Campus.

People who still complain about the Morning News coverage after the last year or so really need a hobby.

I don't read the DC on any kind of a regular basis, but I am pretty sure that the DC does not provide "positive SMU stories most all the time." Am I wrong?

[Topper]

Gosh, maybe that's the way it is because UT has a good journalism program? If what you want out of a newspaper is positive SMU stories most all the time just read the Daily Campus.

People who still complain about the Morning News coverage after the last year or so really need a hobby.

But wouldnt you agree that people who complain about people who complain about the DMN need a hobby even more?