I've reached my limit...I am quite fine with JOEPA getting his bloodletting in the media...but what of the media? Where in the Heck were they? This guy was there and attempts to explain the environment that allowed for Sandusky...w/o implicating himself...???
DeCourcy: Penn State football program was as much about secrecy as it was tradition, integrity - NCAA Football - Sporting News
IMHO Decourcy (representing the larger media presence in happy valley) is just as much of the problem as Paterno. Each contributed to the environment that led to Sandusky.
Paterno closing ranks in an ever worsening media environment thinking he was protecting his kids, himself, his program. Decourcy being part of the media environment that sought entertainment, sensationalism, and ratings above anything.
To look at either side with blinders you hear a compelling story for their conduct...Paterno, was arguably being paternalistic to a program HE created. DeCourcy, a beat writer with other places to go, and needing a paycheck until those other places materialized.
Alas, BOTH parties contributed to an environment that allowed Sandusky.
As I said, Joe gets what Joe gets...but what about Decourcy and the media? He/they were there too, and just layed down.
This article smacks of "don't blame us...its not our fault....Joe was simply too powerful"...ah yes moreso than Nixon then? Seriously, the media are disgraceful, excuse- making cowards!
If the situation were as DeCoursy said, with Joe running an organization of "Omerta"...where the hell was the media...don't your instincts kick in and say dig? Don't your ethics as a member of the media say I MUST DIG? So DeCoursy and his contemporaries never did anything but snivel? Thanks for that...those kids thank you all for that as well...
If these fools would stop taking the low hanging fruit, or better yet making it up where none exists, they'd have a nose for the stories the people NEED them to find. This scandal hangs on EVERYONE in the media who've allowed themselves to take a paycheck while engaged in superficial lazy, self-serving reporting. They dulled their own journalistic instincts, and are all, to a man/woman just as responsible as Paterno and the rest of the Penn State Community...PSU Admin, Athletic department, Police, DAs office, and the media right down to the beat writers...all of you failed!
Spare me the sniveling "sports writer" bit...they don't portray themselves as court jesters, so I have an expectation that their journalism skills extend beyond entertaining me. And had they had the courage to push back...who knows what happens. But all of them kept getting a paycheck, and kept accepting being shut down. How are they different from anyone in this story who contributed to the environment?
So DeCoursy does a nice job piling on Paterno...while simultaneously excusing himself and his contemporaries in happy valley from being frauds and a hacks. It appears Joe deserves a media blood letting for standing down like the other fools involved...but DECOURSY, don't you dare excuse yourself or your peers from the long and depressing list of morons who contributed to 50+ (and climbing) counts of sexual abuse...
