David Rubin, a professor of media law at SU, disagrees the police investigation is enough to report on and said he thinks ESPN acted unethically in running the story on Thursday. He said nothing in ESPN's reporting so far has indicated enough of a change from what it knew in 2003 to justify running the story now, aside from the recent Penn State scandal. The Penn State scandal is not enough reason for the media to relax its ethical standards, he said.
"Just because the Syracuse police have opened an investigation doesn't seem to me to provide nearly enough of news peg to allow ESPN to offer allegations like this that are so damaging to Bernie Fine," Rubin said. But now that the information is out there, he said, it is impossible for other media outlets to ignore."
From Kathleen Ronayne's Daily Orange article on media coverage of the Bernie Fine allegations.
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Totally Agree
ESPN is showing why they are still not yet sure of what they want to be in the world. If they want to be a true NEWS organization, they must follow the same standards every other journalist is held to. With that, they also cannot expect with the vast empire they have to try to feed this story and silence local ESPN affiliates with the burden of pushing this story. There is NOTHING different in the investigation other than Davis’ step brother coming forward and the police had not even talked to him yet thanks to ESPN’s sheltering of the information. If and when these allegations end up being proven false or there is no other evidence of wrongdoing besides these two testimonies, ESPN is going to have a huge egg on it’s face and rightly so. The thing is, they will keep moving as usual just like they kept Craig James and got away with not talking about the Ben Roethlisberger Georgia case. End Rant.
The best news of the week
The second accuser WAS questioned by the Post-Standard in 2002. This means that his story changed. If his story changed for ESPN, that should have been reported too, right?
Dictated, but not read.
http://atlanticcoastconfidential.wordpress.com/
I just saw that...
…and it speaks volumes to the fishiness of this case.
Especially because Mark Schwarz made a huge point...
about Davis’s story ‘remaining remarkably similar’ over these past 9 years. Uh…what about Lang doing a complete 180, Mark?
I mean
So far it had just been “spoke to four people” crap. I know that they cannot give names, but they could probably go ahead and report that the “new information” is a 180 degree turn by an ADULT!
Dictated, but not read.
http://atlanticcoastconfidential.wordpress.com/
The recap from the 2002/2003 P-S investigation is also interesting
Bernie Fine’s accuser told Post-Standard in 2002: ‘I thought I needed him’
Davis became frustrated with The Post-Standard in 2003 after the newspaper’s editors decided there was insufficient evidence at that time to justify publishing a story.
Without telling The Post-Standard, Davis contacted ESPN. He tried to persuade a Syracuse man who grew up near Fine’s house, whom Davis suspected was abused, to tell ESPN about his experiences. The man got on the phone in Davis’ presence and told ESPN that Fine had not molested him, Davis later told The Post-Standard.
…
Thursday night, when ESPN’s "Outside the Lines" broke the story about Davis’ allegations against Fine, it said it decided to broadcast the story because a second victim, Lang, was alleging Fine abused him.
The Post-Standard has not been able to contact Davis, who now lives in Central New York.
If this turns out to be false...
The old Manley tradition of chucking Oranges needs to be revived the next time ESPN Gameday returns to Syr.
by upstateNYYFan1984 on Nov 20, 2011 11:56 AM EST reply actions
David Rubin...
Is a beast. Took the guys communications law class last year. The man is absolutely brilliant. No surprise he is spot on with his comments here
by westcoastorange on Nov 20, 2011 11:58 AM EST reply actions
Was lucky to have him as the Dean when I was at Newhouse.
A result of which was also the glorious ‘Dean Rubin’ sandwich at Food.com
The 'Cuse is in tha house, oh my God oh my God.
by StrawHatGuy on Nov 20, 2011 12:18 PM EST up reply actions
I doubt Dean Rubin would take SU's side no matter what either
That man built a career – and ran a school – based on media ethics and practices. From the few times I interacted with him at SU, he seemed pretty straightforward.
My guess is he’d put media practices and ethics above SU any day. So I take his word for it on this that ESPN is being unethical.
http://cusepulp.blogspot.com/
Dean Rubin
He did an interview recently where he discussed the possible outcome. I saw on Twitter where Adam Schein, current SNY and SiriusXM NFL host and SU alum, sent the link and commended him for his great work. I assure you, ESPN is not the only ones doing the investigating and many at Syracuse will scream for justice if even one fact about this case is true. I hate hearing people say that the Post and SU covered this up when I have seen the Post Standard in the past blast SU over far less, not to mention no matter what reputation you have on the hill, SU has THE finest journalist program in this country and would have made sure the university was held accountable.
"I'm in a Syracuse State Of Mind"
http://www.syracusestateofmind.wordpress.com/
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