OT: Free Press Editors Force Columnist to Apologize (Not That One)
I read Freep.com so that you don't have to, and I saw that the Freep editors had forced a columnist Not Named Drew Sharp to apologize. Rochelle Riley apparently entered into a business deal with the city of Detroit, and she didn't disclose it. So the editors forced her to apologize for not revealing it (since it's hard for her, as a columnist covering the city of Detroit, to be in bed with the city of Detroit).
http://www.freep.com/story/news/columnists/rochelle-riley/2016/05/10/ro…
Anything that exposes sleazy journalistic practices on the part of the Detroit Free Press is worth sharing.
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Enough, Enough.
Déjà vu all over again.
Probably better than jamais vu though
Unethical journalism: no problem.
Business deal that doesn't include us: thin ice.
Okay, so let me get this straight. The editors are the Mark Emmert. Sharp and Albom are UNC and Syracuse (in no partiuclar order) and Riley is SMU?
Is that about right?
I'm sure the kids with lead poisoning will be fine without it.
There's a lot more than *one* over there which need to do some soul searching.
What Drew did was sleazy because it was intentional. Same goes for Mitch Albom and his Final Four article from 2009.
If you take her at her word and I don't see why not, she did not initially see the conflict of interest and was mulling a possible early retirement offer. Once she realized she was not retiring early and it was obvious that this would give a strong appearance of bias, she backed out. At least she apologized. Still waiting for Drew.
http://isportsweb.com/2016/03/29/david-harns-drew-sharp-owes-public-apology/
for the Detroit Free Press.
Favored them more than the News, primarily because of Mitch Albom. I thought it writings were like sports poetry. As a kid in puberty, the Free Press sports section was famous for three things.
1. Mitch Albom
2. Ads for Cheetah's Windsor
3. All the classifieds for "adult entertainment"
Stretchgate and online porn really killed that for future generations.
When I was a kid I was sufficiently entranced by these running in the Freep and the News sports sections that I paid the Stone a visit when I was a sophomore in high school.
Interesting place. And crowd.
"Park Free in Rear" : with a draw like that it must have been crowded, and interesting.
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I met the Editor of the Freep at the MLS Cup in Columbus. I told him about how much I hated the Freep before he revealed to me who he was. I just told him "let's cool it with shitting on Michigan," and "when are you going to fire Drew Sharp?"
And he said.....?
He said: "Fuck You dude, that's the only way we can get anybody to read us. Nobody from UM reads us, so we have to cater to MSU trolls. Admit it, you'd do it too."
And then he stole the guy's chips.
Shiv'd to the bone.
The truth is — even before telling my editors about the bid — I had begun to realize that the process of co-purchasing a city-owned building, even one managed by a separate entity, would be complicated and rife with politics. I told my friends they’d probably have to find another partner.
Especially in a city like Detroit that is making an effort to rebuild itself and has multiple public and private entities essentially working in this continuous concert in the area, you'd probably run into one or more of them from go. If you're in that situation, I am sure it is an intriguing possibility to both live in the city and cover it for local media, but yeah, owning property in it would be problematic then. At least she backed out before it became a larger mess, I'll give her that.
I mean, owning property by itself is not a problem, though - otherwise you'd be precluded from being a homeowner. The problem is that she would've been buying from the city, or specifically, an entity closely affiliated with the city.
I don't see this as a big deal, though. If some journalist had some kind of nefarious plot in mind, investing in an expensive piece of property from a potential future subject of a column is like maybe the 3,493rd most effective way to pull it off.
Agreed. It doesn't sound like that big of a deal, she got out of it promptly, and more attention was brought about by her apology than by the deal itself. It'll be forgotten in a week.
I'm not much of a Riley fan, but there are other members of the Freep staff that I'd rather get rid of first. (If Sharp would just knock over a liquor store or something, by God we'd have him then!)
The moral, ethical and professional aspects of what use to be an honorable job no longer exists. The vast number of journalists today are just mouth pieces for their causes/politicians/athletes/businesses etc and no longer do the the job of honest unbiased reporting.