Jamie vs the DMR

[HFCS]

I don't follow those three sports, but it is unprofessional to not cover the local team in favor of a team on the other side of the state. Especially in non revenue sports that are basically human interest stories.

I know enough that Iowa baseball/softball/track isn't like Iowa wrestling that can regularly deserve extra press or gets covered by national press.

 

[JM4CY]

 

[HFCS]

With Pollard you gotta take the bad with the good. He's a very good AD and we're lucky to have him, but I hate when he does stuff like this.

Why is it bad?

Was it bad when he stood up to the Iowa AD lying over and over about fan behavior at JTS when the bad actor was shown to be Iowa students?

Would a "good" AD have just agreed with Barta's lies that our students and fans are criminals?

It seems pretty dumb to run non revenue sports stories on Iowa but not ISU and UNI. Is Iowa baseball a traditional top ten program and I never noticed?

 

[Cycsk]

He should have kept it focused on the lack of coverage of ISU softball and their major accomplishment. Didn't help by criticizing other things, particularly things that may have been in the works for months (20th anniversary of cutting baseball) and Hok track (a noteworthy accomplishment). And for the record, the DMR did have an article about the accomplishment of an ISU athlete (Kiptoo) winning 3 events at the Big 12 outdoor championships.

Also, in fairness, how many of us were paying attention to ISU softball? If enough of us truly want coverage, we will get it. Most of us have only had a tangential interest in ISU softball, even in this best-year-ever for them.

Bottom line, kudos for JP for cranking up attention for ISU softball, both from the DMR and from all of us!

P.S. My online subscription had ISU softball as the feature article this morning in the digital version of the print edition.

 

[HGoat1]

I cancelled DMR after the Carson King ordeal. I support JP dancing on their grave.

 

[HFCS]

I don't think that is what fired him up. How hard would it have been to give the more recent stories - softball, track, tennis - at least as much headline? Or run the anniversary story at another time. Hell, even combine the news "Cyclone athletics celebrate success and teams of past." (now you know why I left journalism program)

A professional organization would have a story about the local teams softball, not just one team. It's not a story with a lot of interest, combine the coverage.

It's a ridiculous sign of a newsroom full of fanboys.

 

[ISUTex]

People still subscribe to the DMR? Why? If you want to read anything from them, you can read most of the articles in Google Incognito.

 

[isufbcurt]

How many of you people who want baseball back at ISU would even attend a game?

 

[cyfan92]

I'm a diehard clone fan. I grew up within walking/biking distance to campus and the SW athletic complex

I would have NEVER gone to a baseball game and have absolutely no desire to today..

Every men's sport outside of golf can or is competing for Big 12 titles. 0.000000000001% chance we could field a baseball team annually who could even sniff the successes of the Texas schools.

 

[cyfan92]

I do consume the DSM Register/Ames Trib podcast with Randy and Travis... It's usually a 45 minute show and Randy is talking about nothing for 30 of those minutes..

I know Travis Hines can be polarizing.. But I really like his insights into basketball

 

[CycloneDaddy]

How many of you people who want baseball back at ISU would even attend a game?

They had baseball when I was at ISU and I couldnt even tell you where the baseball field is located.

 

[dosry5]

I think it only takes Randy 5 minutes to write any of his stuff

Not when he’s only using 2 fingers to type…

 

[NorthCyd]

Sorry Tommy I still equate your name and the list you publicly showed up on not that many years ago.

Why does anybody care that a reporter paid for sex? Regardless of whether you think that should or shouldn't be illegal (I don't think it should be) does it really affect his ability to write a story?

 

[BryceC]

How many of you people who want baseball back at ISU would even attend a game?

About 1% of the people who say they would.

 

[theshadow]

I hate to say it but as I look at it Erik's probably right on this. Randy's article was posted at 12:30 on the 17th. JP's Tweet was at 8:30 on the 17th. It's probably not likely that a story that wasn't going to be written on was prepared, edited and published within 3 hours. Possible, but I'd imagine an article was already in the works.

An article that could have been written ahead of time, with the particulars thrown in after the announcement (8 p.m.), and been posted by 10 p.m.

 

[GoldandCardinal]

Which is worse, being whiny or being whiny about someone being whiny?

 

[isufbcurt]

Why does anybody care that a reporter paid for sex? Regardless of whether you think that should or shouldn't be illegal (I don't think it should be) does it really affect his ability to write a story?

I just find it funny that he got caught

 

[NorthCyd]

Which is worse, being whiny or being whiny about someone being whiny?

Depends. Who is the AD of a major university and a public figure and who is anonymously posting on a message board?

 

[Cyclone06]

I hardly care about another baseball is gone article. 20th anniversary, if that's big news great, publish it. I think a piece of JPs tweet was intended to make light of the fact that every single news organization goes out of the way to cover negative news. And that is a problem for society in general. Sure negative news gets the most clicks, but who is at fault more, the publisher or the clicker? Would have to work harder not to rely so much on negativity.

 

[NickTheGreat]

I generally support JP but this was a little off. I mean, he's kinda complaining about the Register writing an ISU story. It'd make more sense if he was complaining about the lack of ISU coverage, and they were covering Hawkeye baseball of the past.

But this is probably more of a case of a coach working the refs. I mean, he's got to keep harping on them to keep them thinking the way he wants them to.