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Penn State:
I earned a Communications degree from Penn State in 1990 and previously wrote professionally for more than a decade of my career.
The Mike McQueary interview on CBS revealed more about the media's rush to judgement.
More than a few in the 'the media' have no formal training and they have been 'trained' by people with no formal training.
As the internet age dawned and everything moved into permanent fast forward, fact checking and the desire to get it right was replaced by something different.
Rather than trying to get the story right, many who consider themselves to be media members simply want to get 'it'. It being a rumor, some gossip.
There are still good reporters in the world
Bob Costas interview Jerry Sandusky on NBC this week.
*The word 'interview' was hyperlinked, so you can obtain the direct facts yourself.
Costas is a great interviewer because he prepares well formulated initial questions and responds, in-the-moment, with relevant rebuttal commentary.
McQueary
As to McQueary - he wrote in an email, obtained by the Allentown Morning Call, that he did have discussions with the police and with a Penn State official who was in charge of the police about what he had witnessed Sandusky doing.
*The word 'wrote' was hyperlinked, so you can obtain the direct facts yourself.
My own personal opinion, as noted on this blog when the story first broke, is that we didn't know all the facts. With that being true, it was not logical to conclude that Sandusky should be spotlighted.
That was a simple, common sense, conclusion.
I learned that logic from family, friends and among others, my Penn State Communications professors.
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