Jemele Hill Calls Out Izzo in Column

--all of this stuff was an open secret for a long time. People were talking about it here and on RCMB. It's the Detroit and Lansing media, IMO, that really dropped the ball. (Now they're all wriging their hands and talking about changing the culture, etc. Lynn Henning knew this stuffl so did Graham Couch.)

No one expected anything of Jemele Hill. But the response at RCMB makes clear she's sticking her neck out in the JoePa-style lynch mob that's now forming. 

i mean, it's politics, she didn't report on it (a long with hundreds of others) because everything is a risk-reward hedging strategy based on access, messaging, on-brand statements, and party lines.

it's all unbelieveably fake, and if you notice, Harbaugh sends subtle jabs to the "serious" media reporters nearly every conference. which is exactly how he knew to milk it for all that it was worth for the past 3+ years, because whether you like it or not, they are GOING TO create a storyline for you, his attitude was "well if it's going to happen regardless, why not make it into something that could help me" (including knowing that there will be a backlash)

i worked in media for a bit, it's absolutely uneblieveable, everything just goes in daily, weekly, yearly, and decade long cycles, it's utterly predictable (hence why these "experts" look like "experts", it's like if you thought shakespeare actors were making it up on the spot), hollywood even morseso (and literally anyone within in 10 miles of the industry knew exactly what was going on for decades---my real theory is that all this stuff is coming out because it hides the pedophilia nonsense that goes in in Hollywood as well).

any time you have social dynamics where secrecy and succession is opaque and $$$$ is very high, you always get these kind of cover-ups, because each participant has something to gain and something to lose (finance, status and power), and it builds in a sort of, "who owes who" and "who's got dirt on who" culture. Thats why this happens in politics, sports, the church, hollywood, and large scale businesses.

in a weird twist of fate, the proliferation of media and attention has actually backfired on the media industry itself, as increased transparency has hit many sectors and the tide is flowing outward. But there is always a new secrecy that forms (like who GAF what the president is doing, what's that ol NSA up to?) where things really go underground.

luckily media is now actually decentralizing power and informaiton systems (not without critique of course, and in many, many new and bad ways as well), which is ultimately for the best and the younger generations does seem a bit more progressive about women's rights as a whole.

if someone believes they "know" how the world should be run they should be the absolute last person to ever be in that position (but those are literally the people who become politicians).

because for ther first time that I'm aware of I actually agree with Mike Valenti- yes I'll say that, I agree with that hot take specialist--there isn't one single thing in the ESPN piece that wasn't known 8 years ago, 4 years ago, 2 years ago. Not one piece of new evidence has come out. The Walton case, the one everyone is focusing on, was adjudicated and the prosecutor publicly basically said there was no crime there. In that context Izzo's decision to keep him is certainly debateable, but not IMO even close to fireable.

Racism and discrimination aren't the same thing. Racism is getting murdered and having your killer get off because of the false assumptions people have about your skin color. Racism is being denied opportunity in employment and housing and other aspects due to your skin color because it's legal--or not illegal--to do so. Racism is a system--discrimination is an incident or incidents.

DUDE, the guy who claims he doesn't see color made the wrong turn.