POLL: Do you think NJ.com is fair in its coverage of Rutgers and Rutgers athletics?

[LotusAggressor]

RU success also means more interest in the programs and more eyes on their articles.

It’s an incredibly stupid take to say that they don’t want us to succeed.

RU success in football between 2005-2007 led to the reporting that cost Mulcahy his job.

 

[MADHAT1]

Mulcahy ran Bruce Johnson out of town.

He also put most of his effort into making the football program better and was run out of town for that by the Star Liar .
Rutgers road to the B1G was paved by Bob Mulcahy

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

I think it was year 3 of GS1.0 where the big preseason multipage spread covering Rutgers Football season preview was led off with a game-by-game recap of teh previous season where we had gone 1-11.

It's a brand new season, with new recruits, a new quarterback, and a new OC, and the Star-Ledger figured what its readers needed most was a game-by-game recap of the previous awful season.

That was when I first became certain that someone at the Star-Ledger hated Rutgers.

But it got worse. They campaigned to remove Bob Mulcahy as AD. There was this series of investigative reports about Greg Schiano's "secret" payouts from a vendor which were not counted in the AD's report of his pay. That was Sherman and Margolin, who had won a Pulitzer for breaking news coverage of a NJ Gov McGreevy.. breaking news that the Star-Ledger knew all along and was forced to report once the general public became aware of McGreey's fiscal and sexual shenanigans with an Israeli consultant. This time Shrman and Margolin reported on a "secret" pay plan for Schiano that had been announced in a press release in the Star-Ledger six months earlier. The Star-Ledger then put up Sherman+Margolin for a sports coverage Pulitzer.. which they did not win.

From the photos they select to go with stories to the titles to when they choose to run certain stories with certain angles and how they order the paragraphs.. leading with the worst aspects of any story... the Star-Ledger / NJ.com is not fair to Rutgers.. it is an enemy of Rutgers.

 

[DJ Spanky]

RU success in football between 2005-2007 led to the reporting that cost Mulcahy his job.

Just stop with those inconvenient facts!

 

[T2Kplus20]

Yes or no? Discuss.

I assume this is a rhetorical question. The answer is no f'ing way.

 

[BossNJ]

RU success in football between 2005-2007 led to the reporting that cost Mulcahy his job.

Clearly wasn’t as connected as you during that timeframe, please help me to understand how RU’s success “led to” them tearing Bob down.

-Also noting that this was ~20 yrs ago with a different SL regime in place.

Thanks

 

[RUSK97]

Politi gets half his story ideas from this board

Well...possibly true, but this board is littered with Rutgers 'fans' who are secretly butthurt fanboys of rival teams.

 

[KK1827]

Politi, Lanni and Fonz? Extremely fair. They call balls and strikes. Some of you just dont like when it’s strike 3

 

[Bagarocks]

 

[Knight177lb]

Didn't SI Newhouse, the owner of the Star Liar and huge supporter of Syracuse, write an editorial about how Rutgers will never have big time football before he died. I think it was around 2014. Does anyone remember that?