Texas Student Newspaper Battles Athletic Department Over Coverage of Football Team
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A month ago, Texas back-up quarterback John Chiles was a suspect in an "assault-by-conduct" incident in Austin. The Daily Texan, the student newspaper at the University of Texas, reported this information in their blog . According to a recent editorial in The Daily Texan, this set off a firestorm of criticism from at least one official in the UT athletic department. "Last month, The Daily ...
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UT Student Paper Censored? Solution from ABC?
Published 2 days ago by Tuffy at SPORTSbyBROOKS
FANHOUSE notes the difficulties of working for a student newspaper covering big-time college sports . (See, kids, it’s not just the adults taking crap !) THE DAILY TEXAN sports writers have taken quite a bit of abuse for reporting student-athlete arrests, receiving veiled and really-not-so-veiled threats from the Athletics Department, students, and boosters. FANHOUSE also adds this isn’t even the first Big 12 school to take abuse from the local teams, citing Bo Pelini’s snit fit against THE DAILY NEBRASKAN. ABC News panders Another member of the AOL blogging family has ...
