Another BS headline by NJ.com
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Welcome to the Hotel Star Ledger. You can check out any time you like but you can never cease being the fodder for a negative headline. Even 12 years after you move on.
I understand exactly what you’re saying and I agree.
However the absolute/complete 100% Bull Shite of the accusations will become clear
However the absolute/complete 100% Bull Shite of the accusations will become clear
Never liked Fleck and never wanted him here. A strange duck IMO.
Next up: shoplifter picked up in Georgia once visited a friend at a Rutgers campus.
Don’t worry , today’s story will be about current rutgers coach Kirk Ciarrocca’s involvement . Then there will be op-Ed piece to fire KC without cause so rutgers pays him full salary .
Then tomorrow’s story is Schiano was behind it all as he mentored fleck and stole KC from him so the same thing could happen here
Then tomorrow’s story is Schiano was behind it all as he mentored fleck and stole KC from him so the same thing could happen here
C‘mon on, really?
It’s obviously not an untrue headline. But, they could have put lots of other descriptors here, like maybe his current school, or one of his other stops. He had 3 other jobs since RU, including another HC job where he had much more influence. And, the guy was here, for what, 2 years?! Not exactly an RU football institution, lol. It is ok to acknowledge that the headline is a bit silly and mainly just for clicks.
Why is it even really newsworthy to people in NJ? The guy worked at Rutgers for all of a year over a decade ago.
Of course the headline is for clicks….that’s my point.
You’re going to put Rutgers in the headline. It’s all about clicks, and more people are searching “Rutgers” on nj.com than “Minnesota”
Good, then you probably share the point as the OP.
The headline is for clicks (not really news). I.e., for popularity (not really news). I.e., for entertainment (not really news). So, it’s fine to say some entertainment is BS. And this one kinda is.
So it’s your opinion that because the headline is written for clicks it’s BS?
Every single headline on every single website should be written for clicks..that’s digital media 101.
And I do believe this is newsworthy, especially after the Northwestern saga. There’s a reason other outlets picked up the story too
You keep saying it’s “not news” ”So it seems to me that to you…the story is BS, not the headline?
I’d agree with that…though I feel like it is news..it’s a bs news story.
When is the Ledger going to figure it out that when you indiscriminately dump on Rutgers you lose subscription readers.
Clicks at the expense of accuracy. It's a footnote of little to no importance where he was coaching 11-12 years ago. If you want to print a fact driven newspaper that would have occupied a de minimus part of the article. If you want to print a National Enquirer style rag knock yourself out.
It was a minor sidenote that was given outsized importance.
Headlines online are designed to get attention, it’s no different than what tabloid newspapers have been doing forever. The actual article ( for those that read it) contains researched information. The article wasn’t among the leading articles under the Sports section. NJ.Com and the SL cover RU sports in some depth. Today, the SL had a front page sports section article on Wimsatt being named as starting QB.
No it wasn't, in context to what is being covered. What is the most important thing being covered? It sure as hell isn't that when the current RU students were in elementary school he was a Rutgers coach.
It’s right there in the headline..how he’s accused of a toxic culture…that’s the most important thing about the story.
There is nothing wrong with the headline..no matter how much you want there to be. Again, it’s digital media 101.
Now I’d agree…if this was the headline in the printed edition..that would be different
Well, as I said above, if the SL wants to be a tabloid they can knock themselves out. The question I would ask, do the ad revenues generated by the clicks generate more income than the subscription revenue than they would have generated if the numerous posters here who refuse to subscribe had indeed subscribed because of crap like this headline?
You’re confusing the star ledger with nj.com. One is a print edition..the other is a digital. Headlines shoujd be different, no doubt
The publication uses every opportunity to make RU sports look bad
This is obvious, it goes beyond clicks
It has NOTHING do with Rutgers.
It's clickbait to make people think there was wrongdoing at RU when there wasn't.
Don't forget the Gilgo Beach killer once lived in New Brunswick. Maybe he once went to the Grease Trucks. That's definitely worth a story!
That is fine
I go back to when every incident with the football program was magnified to where the unknowing public thought we were terrible
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studies showed that we were one of the better teams at not having incidents, but NJ,Com would never report that
The net result is that the general public has a distorted view of RU athletics
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Might have even gone to a sporting event one time at Rutgers. Better investigate.
So it's OK to create a false impression for cash?
Yes let's turn NJ.com into the Enquirer.
This is why news is dying in a lot of quarters.
I don’t think their reasoning was to create a false impression.
Again, having Rutgers in the headline is more beneficial in NJ then having Minnesota in the headline.
No inaccuracies and a very common digital media tactic to get clicks.
It's the difference that results from selling the news vs. reporting the news.
I know of at least two instances where readers have a very bad viewpoint of RU athletic s
Maybe they don't post much positive to counterbalance
Do they show the positive at all?