We talk about the media a lot at SFN, and the decline of the ‘old media’ is of a lot of interest to us. With this said, we though the the recent news that the News & Observer will start charging for digital content on December 19th would be of some interest. It will be […]
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UNC Scandal: What’s the End Game?
It’s a surreal world we occupy when the N&O, Gregg Doyel and #WPN are all working together. For decades we’ve endured the arrogant elitism of The Carolina Way, knowing it never passed muster. And now, after their precious creed has failed them, the UNC faithful have responded mostly with passive indifference and refused to be […]
MooU and the N&O allies?
About six weeks ago I argued that as the vaunted “Carolina Way” has been widely and publicly deconstructed, “the average Carolina fan has responded not with outrage but instead with passive indifference.” And today, Duke Basketball Report (the enemy of my enemy is my friend) compiled a few of the more classic responses on FireHoldenThorp.com, […]
Tar Heel strategies coming to light; About that transparency…[6:10 Update]
I HATE that this came out on the late afternoon of State’s huge game with Florida State…but, we have more than five FSU-related entries on the front page of the blog and you can surf and read to your heart’s content. We are going to send the traffic on this to the Daily Tar Heel […]
N&O Editorial About UNC Scandal
John Drescher, Executive Editor of the News & Observer, wrote an editorial Saturday about the questions that should’ve been asked by the Faculty Council last week…but weren’t. When UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor Holden Thorp appeared before the Faculty Council last week to discuss investigations into the Tar Heel football program, the scene was set for the […]
R&R: News and Observer Missing Golden Opportunity
If you listened closely, you probably heard an odd buzz floating through the air around the state of North Carolina yesterday. I know that I contributed to it. What you were hearing was the elevated voices of the collective non-UNC-graduates in the area expressing their astonishment with what greeted them in their Sunday newspapers (followed […]
Pomeranz: Emails About Fowler Didn’t Make a Difference
In a followup to the Ken Tysiac story from the weekend where the Observers’ headline writer claimed that 29 emails made the difference in the status of Lee Fowler’s job, former Technician sports editor and sometime NC State blogger Jim Pomeranz makes sense of it all and injects some much-needed reality: In reality, the idea […]
Big Fowler Article in the Sunday Observers; headline contradicts information in article
Both the Charlotte Observer and Raleigh’s News & Observer ran a large featured article this morning titled – Fowler’s exit from NC State linked to emails. There is SO MUCH here that I don’t have time to start before heading to church! But, we just had to link it and get the conversation started. (Actually…true […]
