...it has also settled a bit. And with that, a few interim observations and food for thought items:
1. It seems that it's only been in the last 24 hours or so that people have noticed/noted the grotesquely opportunistic approach that ESPN has taken here. While the Nassar affair and the MBB/MFB issues are both serious problems, I don't know that I've seen anything that actually connects them. But ESPN's timing and rollout here has been coordinated and clearly has sought to link them.
2. Somewhat lost in all of this is where "we" are ultimately going with respect to Title IX enforcement policy, and what effect this will have on that debate. There are serious questions about how one balances schools' duty to provide safe campuses against the rights of the accused, and just as I thought we were going to have a serious conversation about that, I fear that's pretty much going to be chucked into the dustbin as a result of MSU.
3. Finally, it's always fascinating to me how it seems that the worst "sin" one can commit in the public realm is the sin of hypocrisy, and that the press and public will gladly sacrifice truth for an opportunity to revel in hypocrisy finding. The perception of a "hypocrisy-finding" opportunity is why the media focused on Paterno, and that is why folks on this board are so rabid about Simon and Emmert.
1. It seems that it's only been in the last 24 hours or so that people have noticed/noted the grotesquely opportunistic approach that ESPN has taken here. While the Nassar affair and the MBB/MFB issues are both serious problems, I don't know that I've seen anything that actually connects them. But ESPN's timing and rollout here has been coordinated and clearly has sought to link them.
2. Somewhat lost in all of this is where "we" are ultimately going with respect to Title IX enforcement policy, and what effect this will have on that debate. There are serious questions about how one balances schools' duty to provide safe campuses against the rights of the accused, and just as I thought we were going to have a serious conversation about that, I fear that's pretty much going to be chucked into the dustbin as a result of MSU.
3. Finally, it's always fascinating to me how it seems that the worst "sin" one can commit in the public realm is the sin of hypocrisy, and that the press and public will gladly sacrifice truth for an opportunity to revel in hypocrisy finding. The perception of a "hypocrisy-finding" opportunity is why the media focused on Paterno, and that is why folks on this board are so rabid about Simon and Emmert.
