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[QUOTE="Orange Barrel, post: 5033498, member: 845"]
There are plenty of reasons to criticize JB, but this episode isn't one of them. He was absolutely right.

Donna wrote a piece pointing out that some coaches owned JB, notably Pitino and Dixon. The paper did not, as you say, print his record against Pitino and that was a big part of JB's beef. If it had done so, readers would have been reminded that JB at one time owned Pitino, including ousting RP from the Final Four in '87. A glaring omission.

He also had an issue with Donna's focus on coaches he was currently struggling with, while not bothering to mention the successful coaches who couldn't seem to win against him. Hence the Beilein comment. Again, this is COM 101 stuff. Worse, Donna's baffled reaction exposed her as someone who didn't understand basic fundamentals of journalism.

I'll never understand how this piece got past the editor's desk in its published iteration. Unless it was just a case of the PS wanting to piss JB off.

Disclaimer here: I like Donna and think she does a better job than anybody covering Syracuse basketball. I never would have said that when she started, but she has improved dramatically over the years. Her writing is clear, concise and well researched and her pieces are often clever and thoughtful. But she and her employer were just wrong on this one.
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