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Can't Blame Media For This One
Published: 4/1/2008 9:49 PM
Last Modified: 4/1/2008 9:49 PM

While driving to Stillwater for Tuesday's news storm, I overhead a sports talk radio host say that Mike Holder has pooh-poohed the Sean Sutton job security story as something created solely by the media. Like, perhaps, if the media didn't keep stirring things up, Sutton's future wouldn't even be a story.
If that was true, Tuesday's press conference would never have occurred. I'm going to go out on a limb and say where there was smoke, there was fire.


Reader Comments 5 Total
Arthur (5 years ago)
Agreed. The media apparently are only guilty of getting this one right.
MIKE (5 years ago)
Jimmy, love your insight to death but coming from a member of the media, I'm not sure if you can offer that "unbiased" opinion. Don't get me wrong; there was smoke and there was fire. But if you're trying to sell me that the media wasn't reponsible in the smallest part for flaming that fire, I'm not buying it.
Jimmie Tramel (5 years ago)
Hey Mike. I appreciate your opinion, but my point is just that the "you guys are just stirring things up" was put out there by OSU folks as a smokescreen to try to keep the media from pursuing the story even further. Be good.
Billy (5 years ago)
Where are the Adarius Bowman marijuana
stories? If this were an OU player, this would be all over the place!
MIKE (5 years ago)
Jimmie, I'm not sure how much more the media could have pursued this topic. I read and heard about it every single day for two months now. But you are right. OSU was trying to keep the media off their backs and honestly, can anyone outside the media blame them? It couldn't possibly have made the decision any easier if it hadn't already been set in stone. That's just my vantage point.
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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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