Fake news is a thing these days. It's all around us.
and was a big part of covering Rutgers football back in the Josh and Ted days.
One of their hard hitting just found out investigative articles , implying it was just recently dug up by them, was reported the year before (Here come the boosters.) by another SL sports writer that left that newspaper for another one (Wall Street Journal)
Josh and Ted implied this investigation into the Rutgers football program just turned up the Nelligan Corporate money that was part of Schiano's contract and the school was hiding that from the public .
As it was that money was public knowledge because around a year before Josh and ted implied it was hidden from the public but they just found out about it, Mathew Futterman wrote an article that had the
Nelligan money in it and where it went .
Fake news only works when people don't take the time to find out if what their being fed is BS or the truth.
I checked and received this reply( trying to cover their asses)
From: WHITMER, KEVIN [
mailto:KWHITMER@STARLEDGER.COM]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 5:10PM
Mr.xxxxx:
In Dec. 2006, Matt Futterman wrote a story after Schiano turned down Miami. Themain theme was that boosters would help fund some of his contract.
We knew about that story. We knew what it said -- and, more importantly,what it didn't say.
Specifically, what it did not say was that private funding would be keptsecret from the public and the school's own administration or that the moneywould be deducted from payments owed the university.
Thanks for writing.
Best regards,
Kevin Whitmer
my request
Sent: 7/31/2008 5:59 PM
To: WHITMER, KEVIN
Subject: Old article
Mr. KevinWhitmer,
Did Matthew Fetterman on December 2006 or in 2007 write an article about the issue raised recently about Greg Schiano’s contract?
If not I apologize for asking. But I’m under the impression it was talked about in 06 or 07 and now being raised again, like the Star Ledger never knew about it before.
Please advise if the rumor I’m hearing is true.
You know it will eventually come out if it is true.
This is what I’m talking about and don’t know if this is a true article or a lie posted in a forum.
But I have received not one reply from the Ledger editors about this. So I will ask you if true.
I will not stop until I find the truth and will ask media outside of the Newark Star Ledger if necessary.
I will contact every news media if necessary. Knowing most if not all will disregard my message.
But if only one looks into what I’m asking, then the truth will be known.
Please understand, I will contact all I can to find out and ask other Rutgers fans to do the same.
If the Star Ledger didn’t know about the issues they are claiming to just have discovered , fine.
But if Matthew Fetterman wrote about it in 06 or 07 , the Ledger is not reporting new news , but making their own.
Sincerely
xxxxx