Rosenberg/Synder Confronted

Submitted by MGoAndy on
If anyone kept the Mgoblue link from the presser open after it ended, you could distinctly hear either Rosenberg or Synder confronted by someone [Brian?!] afterward. The person asks R/S about non-countable hours and Brandin Hawthorne's quote, and he says he doesn't want to talk about it with whoever is asking him. The person presses him and says you're not going to talk about any of this? and R/S responds by saying he won't talk about it and won't share his information with competing papers or websites. Whoever was pressing the Freep reporter about it sounded incredulous that he refused to talk about it. When the non-countable hours thing was brought up the Freep reporter sounded really flustered, as if it hadn't been properly researched. Don't negbomb me for the vagueness here, I just thought it was really amazing to catch audio of this confrontation on the MGoBlue stream. Hopefully more details come out soon.
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BlockM

August 31st, 2009 at 12:09 PM ^

"It is an insult to me and my journalistic integrity that you could ask me such a question. I have made my arguments clearly and with facts. Also, I have insider information that Rich Rodriguez once said 'I will win ... even if ... it means ... I must ... kill ... babies.' So what if that quote was taken over the course of several years and involved me sifting through old press conferences and splicing them together?" (This did not actually take place.)

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Mr. Maizenblue

August 31st, 2009 at 12:12 PM ^

And found it funny the way they ducked and dodged around it. I believe Snyder was the one asking Coach "Why he was getting emotional" and RR walked away from him at the end. I find it funny that reporters love to "go after" people, but head for the hills when they are aproached. I AM ALL IN FOR COACH ROD AND THESE PLAYERS !!!!!!! GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!!

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Heinous Wagner

August 31st, 2009 at 12:12 PM ^

Well then, talk about it with us. Write one of those "how we got the story" columns. Or better yet, the assignment editor will need to write "why we stepped in it but really didn't mean to" mea culpa colummns. Chait's New Republic piece is perfect. As an editor, I would switch reporters to different beats when they got too cozy or too poisonous. If they couldn't be impartial, complete and ACCURATE, they were off the beat. The Rosenberg piece was too sloppy by half. That's his fault, but most of all, it's his editor's fault.

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Mr. Maizenblue

August 31st, 2009 at 12:12 PM ^

And found it funny the way they ducked and dodged around it. I believe Snyder was the one asking Coach "Why he was getting emotional" and RR walked away from him at the end. I find it funny that reporters love to "go after" people, but head for the hills when they are aproached. I AM ALL IN FOR COACH ROD AND THESE PLAYERS !!!!!!! GO BLUE!!!!!!!!!!

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dakotapalm

August 31st, 2009 at 12:29 PM ^

THese guys are no better than message board trolls who instigate and threaten, talking big under the disguise of the internet, but in person have no spine at all.

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MH20

August 31st, 2009 at 12:32 PM ^

On The Fort, someone made mention that they thought it was Brian that was confronting Snyder. Then someone else mentioned how great MGoBlog is (which it is). Mere moments later, all posts related to that original post were deleted! Give me a fucking break, Rivals.

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Callahan

August 31st, 2009 at 12:54 PM ^

Maybe Brian should confront Snyder about why he constantly steals his information and passes it along without linking. This happened during the whole 2010 first game mess, where the Free Press posted a debunking to the theory that it was Georgia four days after Brian did, offering the same evidence and analysis, citing that it appeared in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (I wonder where they got it?)

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Don

August 31st, 2009 at 2:32 PM ^

They won't share their information with competing media outlets? Then what were they doing all over the media this weekend and this morning? If they don't consider ESPN to be a competitor, then it's understandable why the Freep is going down the tubes. Nope, this is all about their desire to take part in what they think are going to be friendly interviews, where their reporting is not challenged or questioned in any serious, non-softball way, which is what Brian was doing. I don't generally like to indulge in name-calling when it comes to "professional journalists" since what they do is actually very important, but in this case the word "weasel" keep popping up in my mind. Don't know why.

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