Big Ten Network responds to soft-pedaling Penn State story
November 10th, 2011 at 6:36 AM ^
and then BTN didn't run the Paterno presser or any of the immediate fallout
November 10th, 2011 at 5:44 PM ^
That read more like a favor by Deitsch to let Silverman control the message than anything. Deitsch has always been a Big Ten softy (I'm not complaining...we get enough shit already).
Not that I care; BTN doesn't run a 24-hour news cycle and rarely airs live programming outside of actual games. Call me biased, but if this were ESPN, a cable news network, etc., I'd be pointing out the same thing.
BTN is a platform for Big Ten exposure, not a journalistic entity. I don't really think there's anything to see here...
November 11th, 2011 at 9:09 AM ^
Doesn't hurt that Deitsch studied at UM under the Knight Wallace fellowship.
November 11th, 2011 at 10:43 AM ^
I've been watching Friday morning and what they are covering is the fact that Paterno is fired, that the students rioted because of it. Pretty much a perspective of what is happening to the Penn State Football program. That's because this is a sports network for the Big Ten Conference, this isn't a news network, nor is it a political debate channel. Hopefully they will stop running the repeat coverage of this once the basketball picks up today, because I look to BTN to provide me sports coverage, if I wanted to know more (and I did) about what happened in locker rooms at Penn State I can read the grand jury report online.
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