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If Journalism was a serious profession, there would be countless stories such as this...

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=ApOs7NLIExo12isbgBnBLHo5nYcB?slug=cr-bush042306&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Wonder if Detergent came with the House???

ncaa needs to share the wealth and give them a death penalty

Journalism is a very serious profession, since it's the recording of history.

Or, closer to home, it is how outlets like the Dallas Morning News and PonyFans.com get the stories we like to read about our Mustangs. Journalists are a little like teachers: crucial to all of us, often overworked and almost always underpaid (yes, I'm married to one).

Q,

Every college sports journalist in America should be given a copy of Hans Christian Andersen's classic 'The Emperor's New Clothes'

Gee, sounds like cheating is EVERYWHERE these days.

But UT is sqeaky clean ... thank God.

mr. pony wrote:Gee, sounds like cheating is EVERYWHERE these days.

But UT is sqeaky clean ... thank God.

Sad, sad, envious man.

This USC story was uncovered because somebody decided to ask some questions. It's called investigative reporting.

Around here, those questions aren't asked of anything burnt orange. It's 'don't ask, don't tell' - might look mean-spirited, plus it would p*ss off a lot of our readers/viewers.

I don't think you'll ever have 'fair & balanced' reporting as long as big media firms are incorporated as 'for-profit' business. I've long had a problem with this issue.

Media firms should definitely be a "for profit" institution. Have you seen the fair and balanced reporting of public television? We simply need more competition, which we are getting in terms of a variety of venues, just not newpapers anymore.

um.....that variety of venues, is increasingly being owned by fewer and fewer conglomerates, not exactly an increase in competition.

Sadly, the only way to be successful in major college sports today is to bend the rules (UT does it, USC does it, Stanford does it, Georgetown does it, TCU does it, Baylor does it)....that's just the facts. And that makes things very tuff when you have a booster who will turn your coach in for buying a kid lunch and soap

Mexmustang wrote:Media firms should definitely be a "for profit" institution. Have you seen the fair and balanced reporting of public television? We simply need more competition, which we are getting in terms of a variety of venues, just not newpapers anymore.

Ideally, NO media would be "for profit." Any time there's money involved -- and the money in the circles we're talking about is huge -- then the interests of advertisers and other outside interests get involved, rather than getting a story in its purest form.

So USC said they would, "look into it" when asked. Isn't the pertinent question when a responsible person at USC knew about it?

ESPN radio said yesterday that USC has asked the Pac-10 to look into it.

Whether the school also will do an internal investigation, I don't know.

Peterson can drive a Lexus, Bush family gets a $800,000 home, etc...

Wanna bet nothing happens in either situation.