Have you noticed that there is a good guy/bad guy in the Detroit area media? There is an obvious good guy/bad guy western movie feel like back in the old cowboy movie days where there was the black hat (bad guys) and white hat (good guys) situation that has been out there for a few years regarding the University of Michigan and especially the Michigan football program.White hat: The Detroit News and GoBlueWolverine now associates with them especially with recently Sam Webb's weekly column now.
Black hat: Detroit Free Press and Ann Arbor News who also seem to use quotes from the rivals network these days while it seems to use Helmholdt quotes in these two papers.
You have a local paper that the day of a kid signing to a certain school that local paper gives reasons and reruns a past article why the kid should attend the hated rival in Ohio. You would never see that from the Columbus Dispatch having a story of the reasons for this kid to attend Michigan instead of the hometown team OSU. Then you have a columnist (not sure if you can call him anything else besides a local sports hater) Drew Sharpe that does an article that Tressel won against Coach Rod 1-0 already and basically said that this kid could be just what OSU needs to get back to the National Championship game again. The thing is these little beat writers who condemned the message boards and the whole recruiting process would actually follow recruiting they would have know months ago that this kid was not coming to Michigan. The funny thing is the paper actually paid these people to go to Pennsylvania to cover this story in person. Why and then start of with the headline of “It's still basketball season and already Rich Rodriguez is 0-1 against Ohio State?”
With regarding to the seven months of trying to dig up dirt on the University of Michigan and the Football program Jim Carty’s 4 part articles that he finally put together. I decided to finally read them so I could comment on them here, but if you missed them or refused to read them good for you and showing how you feel towards the negativity of the local newspapers and the University of Michigan. He is a guy that sees the negative article as a good thing and it actually gets him attention. He goes on WTKA for a weekly response usually to one of his negative articles along with being the “Drew Sharpe” of Ann Arbor. The best way to ignore to deal with these kinds of reporters is to ignore their paper, ignore their web blogs and web pages, and tell the advertisers that you will not purchase any of their product if they continue to support these people. Another thing is these papers know for the most part negativity sells and that they actually feed off talking about it no matter good or bad because they are talking about the paper and the person who wrote it.
While the Detroit News has an article stating “And in an independent examination completed earlier this year, the U-M psychology department executive committee reviewed work of more than 50 students from Hagen's fall 2007 courses”. Officials concluded: "We have found no evidence to suggest that students, including student-athletes, did not produce the work required to earn academic credit in these courses." They also found "there is not a pattern to indicate that the way Professor Hagen assigns grades to athletes and non-athletes is any different from the way the rest of the department assigns independent studies grades to athlete and non-athletes."
How sad is it that an Ohio paper the Toledo Blade is better than two of the three Michigan papers for following the University of Michigan and they had a recent exclusive article with Coach Rod.
Is there another school in the country that has so many local media papers and journalist (if that is what you want to call them) against the local school and football program? After reading the past articles, I am on a ban of the Ann Arbor News and the Detroit Free Press. I will only be looking at the Detroit News along with the Toledo Blade web pages for coverage of Michigan.
These are web pages I endorse for Michigan:
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