The two-week ban of Southern California News Group beat reporter Luca Evans is a gross overreaction to procedural missteps.
LOS ANGELES — Maybe Lincoln Riley forgets that he is now coaching in the No. 2 media market in North America, rather than sleepy Norman, Oklahoma.Or maybe he’s just resorting to the traditional college football coach’s playbook: Assert control, and steer the coverage of your team into friendly territory, by bullying the new guy on the beat and intimidating the others.
Second: It is the news organization that decides who covers the beat, not the news source. That’s sort of inherent in journalism, and while not explicitly stated in the First Amendment it’s something of a deal-breaker. The reporter’s job is to be an independent source of information for those who care, be it USC football, the White House or the Temecula school board.
Protection from what, he didn’t say. Nor would he specify which policies he was referring to when I followed up. “Like I said, there were multiple that were broken, but I’m not going to get into specifics today,” he said.Thursday’s feature on freshman running back Quinten Joyner, And by the way, if Riley thinks I deserve a “suspension” after this, he shouldn’t waste his breath. I’m “suspending” USC football from this column for a while.
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