Gannett NJ/North Jersey.Com With Another Hit Piece on Athletics Spending-Update 7/7--Another one!!!

[Knight Shift]

Video in link below gives highlights on analysis of credit card purchases by Rutgers athletics. Article is behind a paywall.

Rutgers University credit card charges total nearly $10M

With nearly $10 million in credit card charges, Rutgers University spending shows cost of competing in big-time college athletics.

www.northjersey.com

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EDIT-new article published today and not paywalled:

Rutgers athletics spends big — and builds big debt — to stay competitive in the Big Ten

NorthJersey.com has produced an investigative series revealing how Rutgers athletics has racked up debt, operating deficits and credit card bills.

www.app.com

 

[Plum Street]

Just ridiculous . Only in jersey

 

[RUBOB72]

Guaranteed there will be more “ hit” pieces going forward . There already in the past week have been both media and politicians questioning the potential $ 100-300 million Rutgers share. The Sunday tv show on New Jersey politics had several contributors who thought this was unwarranted .So let’s not say it’s a sure thing.

 

[mdk01]

"Credit card charges", like there is something inherently suspicious about the fact that they are on a credit card. Buy a ream of paper for the copy machine and put it on a credit card. Oh, no! Probation is right around the corner.

 

[Scarlet83]

Video in link below gives highlights on analysis of credit card purchases by Rutgers athletics. Article is behind a paywall.

Rutgers University credit card charges total nearly $10M

With nearly $10 million in credit card charges, Rutgers University spending shows cost of competing in big-time college athletics.

www.northjersey.com

View embedded media

Don’t click on their garbage.

Eff nj dot com and the Ledger. They blow.

 

[50 yd line RR]

Of course the hit pieces will be coming the Newhouse kids are going to amp it up because Syracuse is on the outside looking in.

 

[bigmatt718]

Of course the hit pieces will be coming the Newhouse kids are going to amp it up because Syracuse is on the outside looking in.

Rutgers should just buy Newhouse after they start collecting $100M a year from the B1G.

 

[tico brown]

No one bats an eye in Pa when $48 Million is used to build the new Penn State weight room facility.

Take a Look: Lasch Building Renovations Continue for Penn State Football

"Nobody asked about this!" Penn State coach James Franklin said as he walked away from his post practice media scrum, pointing at the Lasch Building

www.statecollege.com

 

[Plum Street]

No one bats an eye in Pa when $48 Million is used to build the new Penn State weight room facility.

Take a Look: Lasch Building Renovations Continue for Penn State Football

"Nobody asked about this!" Penn State coach James Franklin said as he walked away from his post practice media scrum, pointing at the Lasch Building

www.statecollege.com

Or when they built new showers for sandusky

 

[RU at the shore]

Nobody who really matters cares. The money will continue to be spent and Rutgers will continue to succeed.

 

[Knight Shift]

Don’t click on their garbage.

Eff nj dot com and the Ledger. They blow.

This is not NJ.com. It's the Gannett group of papers: USA Today, NorthJersey.com, APP.com, mycentraljersey.com, aka the Asbury Park Press and The Home News.

Of course the hit pieces will be coming the Newhouse kids are going to amp it up because Syracuse is on the outside looking in.

Don't think the people who write these pieces, Jean Rimbach and Abbott Koloff are "Newhouse kids."
Koloff went to NYU, according to his LinkedIn. Rimbach does not list where she went to college.

They were not happy with the $100 million that went to Rutgers under the new budget.

These writers do the same thing on other topics, such as charter schools, and use shady tactics to make it seem like something nefarious is afoot. A critique of their hit pieces on charter schools:

"Part of the investigative journalism racket, at least in this example, is framing news with negative innuendo, in a way that looks damning, even when nothing illegal has taken place and in fact many of the charter schools mentioned in the article have proven track records of having achieved impressive and praiseworthy results."

"It’s almost as if the reporters have no experience with capitalism, in which money doesn’t “disappear,” it just gets spent, the same way that traditional public schools spend money on computers from Apple or gasoline for use in school buses from ExxonMobil."

New budget gives Rutgers $100 million in taxpayer money for athletics facilities upgrades

The money would pay for renovations to its basketball arena and help pay for a new football operations center promised to head coach Greg Schiano.

www.northjersey.com

Newspaper Hit Piece on Charter Schools Misses The Mark

Reader hours, reporter time disappear into flawed journalistic experiment

www.educationnext.org

This Newspaper Series Says NJ Charter Schools Are a "Flawed Experiment." That's Wrong - And The Series Itself Proves That. - NJ Education Report

After I read North Jersey Media Group’s (NJMG) voluminous series called “Millions of Your Tax Dollars Have Disappeared Into NJ’s Flawed Charter School Experiment,” I […]

www.njedreport.com

 

[superfan01]

Zzzzz.
This is BBT level bad reporting.

 

[Scarlet83]

This is not NJ.com. It's the Gannett group of papers: USA Today, NorthJersey.com, APP.com, mycentraljersey.com, aka the Asbury Park Press and The Home News.


Don't think the people who write these pieces, Jean Rimbach and Abbott Koloff are "Newhouse kids."
Koloff went to NYU, according to his LinkedIn. Rimbach does not list where she went to college.

They were not happy with the $100 million that went to Rutgers under the new budget.

These writers do the same thing on other topics, such as charter schools, and use shady tactics to make it seem like something nefarious is afoot. A critique of their hit pieces on charter schools:

"Part of the investigative journalism racket, at least in this example, is framing news with negative innuendo, in a way that looks damning, even when nothing illegal has taken place and in fact many of the charter schools mentioned in the article have proven track records of having achieved impressive and praiseworthy results."

"It’s almost as if the reporters have no experience with capitalism, in which money doesn’t “disappear,” it just gets spent, the same way that traditional public schools spend money on computers from Apple or gasoline for use in school buses from ExxonMobil."

New budget gives Rutgers $100 million in taxpayer money for athletics facilities upgrades

The money would pay for renovations to its basketball arena and help pay for a new football operations center promised to head coach Greg Schiano.

www.northjersey.com

Newspaper Hit Piece on Charter Schools Misses The Mark

Reader hours, reporter time disappear into flawed journalistic experiment

www.educationnext.org

This Newspaper Series Says NJ Charter Schools Are a "Flawed Experiment." That's Wrong - And The Series Itself Proves That. - NJ Education Report

After I read North Jersey Media Group’s (NJMG) voluminous series called “Millions of Your Tax Dollars Have Disappeared Into NJ’s Flawed Charter School Experiment,” I […]

www.njedreport.com

Thanks. I will correct my statement to eff Gannett and their effin papers. And while we are in the neighborhood, eff nj dot com! Lol.

 

[Knight Shift]

Thanks. I will correct my statement to eff Gannett and their effin papers. And while we are in the neighborhood, eff nj dot com! Lol.

I understand the sentiment to not click on their crap. On the other hand, as Michael Corleone said:

Just viewing the video in the link, they mentioned a large amount charged to Steakhouse 85. I don't know how deep they went in their analysis, but I know for a fact that Greg and Athletics has hosted donor events/dinners at Steakhouse 85. Just a guess here, but those events/dinners are more likely paid for out of the donor funds. That may not account for all of the charges.

But $10 million in credit card charges over 5 years ($2 million/year) is not a lot for entirety of RU Athletics. Our small office runs up close to $2 million/year in credit card charges, and we are extremely fiscally conservative, never running a deficit over 18 years of operation.

 

[Knight Shift]

Even @Richard Schnyderite is tweeting about the article.

 

[jay_hq]

"BREAKING NEWS: Public State school is supported by tax dollars." Wow shocker!

 

[RU from Jersey]

Think of all the points RU is earning on those credit card purchases. They may be able to cash them in for some toasters.

 

[Knight Shift]

Think of all the points RU is earning on those credit card purchases. They may be able to cash them in for some toasters.

We have used our points from the office to buy appliances and purchase window coverings for our entire house. They come in handy. At $10 million worth of purchases, they might have enough points to get a shed at Home Depot large enough to be the new football fieldhouse!!!

 

[NotInRHouse]

Last week alone

NJ passed a budget giving RU $200 million

Big Ten adds two schools that will majorly up TV revenues

And that's forced the RU haters in the NJ media to read credit card statements.

They lost the war in a big way. Good riddance!

 

[letitrip2]

Quick - Call Ted and Josh. I see another chance for a press award.

Seriously - the majority of the public has no trust in the media and is numb reading this crap. It wont change anything - and with Holloway here he may just decide to go on the attack - that would be fun to see.

 

[bigmatt718]

Quick - Call Ted and Josh. I see another chance for a press award.

Seriously - the majority of the public has no trust in the media and is numb reading this crap. It wont change anything - and with Holloway here he may just decide to go on the attack - that would be fun to see.

That's the funny part, right there. Most people today despise the media and see it as a propaganda machine these days.

 

[mdk01]

Thanks. I will correct my statement to eff Gannett and their effin papers. And while we are in the neighborhood, eff nj dot com (except Todd Hunt)! Lol.

FIFY

 

[Knight Shift]

FIFY

Jerry Carino does a nice job on Rutgers hoops. However, I have seen him get salty on Twitter when someone complains that one of his articles is behind a paywall. Maybe he should understand that a lot of Rutgers fans are not going to subscribe/support a paper that publishes so much anti-Rutgers content.

 

[mdk01]

Jerry Carino does a nice job on Rutgers hoops. However, I have seen him get salty on Twitter when someone complains that one of his articles is behind a paywall. Maybe he should understand that a lot of Rutgers fans are not going to subscribe/support a paper that publishes so much anti-Rutgers content.

Tough when it involves your paycheck.

 

[NorthernKnight]

Video in link below gives highlights on analysis of credit card purchases by Rutgers athletics. Article is behind a paywall.

Rutgers University credit card charges total nearly $10M

With nearly $10 million in credit card charges, Rutgers University spending shows cost of competing in big-time college athletics.

www.northjersey.com

View embedded media

Nobody cares.

 

[Scarlet83]

FIFY

Thanks for the edit!

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

A new age of...

yellow journalism, the use of lurid features and sensationalized news in newspaper publishing to attract readers and increase circulation.

I'd imagine that, since the birth of newspapers, yellow journalism is the norm. We may have had a brief era where there were more professional journalistic standards.. but we have returned to the norm.. YELLOW.

 

[RU-Kidding]

Tough when it involves your paycheck.

Looks like Gannett needs some fiscal management of their own...

"Virginia-based Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the United States, owns USA Today and also 260 dailies and more than 170 paid weeklies in 46 states and it is floundering in red ink.

According to the Washington Post, “Gannett lost $670 million in 2020, and $135 million last year.” As the losses head for a cumulative billion ..."

Gannett bleeding money

 

[Knight Shift]

Looks like Gannett needs some fiscal management of their own...

"Virginia-based Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the United States, owns USA Today and also 260 dailies and more than 170 paid weeklies in 46 states and it is floundering in red ink.

According to the Washington Post, “Gannett lost $670 million in 2020, and $135 million last year.” As the losses head for a cumulative billion ..."

Gannett bleeding money

Great find!!!!
"Younger readers, according to the company, often can’t tell the difference between news reporting and opinion, especially online, where stories appear outside traditional sections. Worse, readers often mistakenly believe that news stories are dictated by the paper’s editorial side."

Had wondered what happened to Randy:
“Randy Bergmann warned Gannett that scaling back the editorial pages, which he oversaw for 18 years at New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press before he was laid off in 2020, would be a mistake, telling the Post, “I argued that opinion leadership was one of the most important functions of the newspaper… I saw the impact of the editorials that I wrote at a local level.””

 

[Captain Hogleg]

The reason these morons got into journalism to begin with is essentially to be “tattle-tales”. They aren’t true literary folks or even In a league with Jerry Izenberg who pen thoughtful, creative and well-written pieces meant to expand thought. Bunch of babies that arrogantly want their agenda pushed and they have no accountability to anyone. It’s why I stopped reading or subscribing to the news outlets.

 

[mdk01]

Looks like Gannett needs some fiscal management of their own...

"Virginia-based Gannett, the largest newspaper chain in the United States, owns USA Today and also 260 dailies and more than 170 paid weeklies in 46 states and it is floundering in red ink.

According to the Washington Post, “Gannett lost $670 million in 2020, and $135 million last year.” As the losses head for a cumulative billion ..."

Gannett bleeding money

If they weren't a mainstay at a lot of hotels/motels/airports they'd have folded a long time ago. 2020/Covid/no travel, that's why the loss skyrocketed.

 

[Knight Shift]

If they weren't a mainstay at a lot of hotels/motels/airports they'd have folded a long time ago. 2020/Covid/no travel, that's why the loss skyrocketed.

Also why RU athletics deficit got larger. But they don't put any emphasis on that.

 

[REDRICH65]

Gannet sucks. Glad to hear they are bleeding badly

 

[AreYouNUTS]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

 

[NewJerseyHawk]

Does anyone actually read North Jersey.com??? I don't think I have read an article from there, since Tara Sullivan and Aditi worked there and that may have been over a decade ago.

There are certain topics that you place on the shelf and dust off periodically, if you want to generate some content.....in sports talk radio on a national scale, if you want clicks, you bring up LeBron James or the Dallas Cowboys.

If you are North Jersey.com, it has to be Rutgers sports as their fall-back plan......

 

[Knight Shift]

Does anyone actually read North Jersey.com??? I don't think I have read an article from there, since Tara Sullivan and Aditi worked there and that may have been over a decade ago.

There are certain topics that you place on the shelf and dust off periodically, if you want to generate some content.....in sports talk radio on a national scale, if you want clicks, you bring up LeBron James or the Dallas Cowboys.

If you are North Jersey.com, it has to be Rutgers sports as their fall-back plan......

I have app.com bookmarked, mainly for local news updates. Their sensationalistic stories that usually involves Rutgers mismanagement or anti-police stories are always moved to the top of their page.

 

[RU at the shore]

Just viewing the video in the link, they mentioned a large amount charged to Steakhouse 85.

Really ? That's an excellent place. Good taste by those involved. Yum yum

 

[mdk01]

Does anyone actually read North Jersey.com??? I don't think I have read an article from there, since Tara Sullivan and Aditi worked there and that may have been over a decade ago.

There are certain topics that you place on the shelf and dust off periodically, if you want to generate some content.....in sports talk radio on a national scale, if you want clicks, you bring up LeBron James or the Dallas Cowboys.

If you are North Jersey.com, it has to be Rutgers sports as their fall-back plan......

Todd Hunt on Rutgers recruiting is almost always worth the read. Not much else.

 

[Knight Shift]

Todd Hunt on Rutgers recruiting is almost always worth the read. Not much else.

Todderick is NJ.com

Jerry Carino is Gannett app.com, etc.
Chris Isemann (a Syracuse alum) is the Rutgers football beat reporter for Gannett, and he actually does a nice job covering Rutgers.

 

[fsg2]

That's the funny part, right there. Most people today despise the media and see it as a propaganda machine these days.

Most people aren't very bright but love to complain.