Seymour Vol
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According to today's Knoxville Compass, Dan Fleser, 30 year veteran responsible for Lady Vol coverage, has been given his pink slip by the News Sentinel. I have enjoyed his coverage and expertise and will greatly miss his reporting.
I'm sad about this mostly because it represents what's happening to newspapers these days. Print editions are going the way of, say, former great basketball programs who refuse to modernize their approach.
As far as Fleser's coverage, IMO he's long been nothing but a LV PR guy for years. In fact, the lack of actual meaningful program coverage, especially as the program declines, has been amazing to me. HW has gotten off virtually scotfree by local media.
I realize much of it is because they tiptoe on absolute eggshells for fear of being politically incorrect or incurring the ire of hardcore LV faithful. They also don't care enough about the current LV program to be bothered to do research and find out that segment is growing increasingly small and insignificant. Besides, a new guy is slotted at third string left guard for upcoming spring practice so priorities you know.
Many of ya'll are going to blast me for this, but God bless John Adams, the only local journalist to ever come close to holding orange feet to the fire.
I'm sad about this mostly because it represents what's happening to newspapers these days. Print editions are going the way of, say, former great basketball programs who refuse to modernize their approach.
As far as Fleser's coverage, IMO he's long been nothing but a LV PR guy for years. In fact, the lack of actual meaningful program coverage, especially as the program declines, has been amazing to me. HW has gotten off virtually scotfree by local media.
I realize much of it is because they tiptoe on absolute eggshells for fear of being politically incorrect or incurring the ire of hardcore LV faithful. They also don't care enough about the current LV program to be bothered to do research and find out that segment is growing increasingly small and insignificant. Besides, a new guy is slotted at third string left guard for upcoming spring practice so priorities you know.
Many of ya'll are going to blast me for this, but God bless John Adams, the only local journalist to ever come close to holding orange feet to the fire.
According to today's Knoxville Compass, Dan Fleser, 30 year veteran responsible for Lady Vol coverage, has been given his pink slip by the News Sentinel. I have enjoyed his coverage and expertise and will greatly miss his reporting.
You are missing a lot. Just this week they ran the high school basketball rankings for Illinois instead of Tennessee. At least twice recently they’ve run the exact same sports story on different pages of the same edition. The slow decline of the News Sentinel seems to be rapidly accelerating.I have not read his work in years due to my boycott of all KNS output due to John Adams existence on staff..
As far as Fleser's coverage, IMO he's long been nothing but a LV PR guy for years. In fact, the lack of actual meaningful program coverage, especially as the program declines, has been amazing to me. HW has gotten off virtually scotfree by local media.
Many of ya'll are going to blast me for this, but God bless John Adams, the only local journalist to ever come close to holding orange feet to the fire.