TCU banning Steven Johnson/Star Telegram over assault reporting

[Shorty]

Dumb and hopefully gets resolved soon. Steven does a great job reporting.

 

[Horned Toad]

Steven Johnson has provided the best coverage of the Frogs in the Star Telegram in a long, long, long time. Hopefully this ban isn’t true.

 

[AroundWorldFrog]

It was horrible, unsubstantiated reporting. Tech tards going full tard in the comments.

 

[AroundWorldFrog]

Steven Johnson has provided the best coverage of the Frogs in the Star Telegram in a long, long, long time. Hopefully this ban isn’t true.

Agree, but he needs to retract his original story and tweets. He claimed the victim bullied and spat on Fields multiple times none of which is true and caused harm to Dozie.

 

[PurpleBlood87]

So TCU athletics has banned the only paper covering it full-time.
Crazy. I could understand banning Johnson.
So nothing on basketball, volleyball, baseball whatever until this spat is settled.
Guess Johnson can still cover road games since the media requests for those go through the opponents media relations department.

 

[Big Frog II]

This reminds me of the time we fired the announcer at games. It's a bad look.

 

[Spike]

This reminds me of the time we fired the announcer at games. It's a bad look.

1980 Baylor. I was there.

 

[PurpleBlood87]

1980 Baylor. I was there.

He was the band announcer for decades after that.

 

[DeuceBoogieNights]

Dumb by all sides. Dumb for the FWST to report on it the way they did, dumb for people threatening the player and dumb for TCU to pull the credentials.

 

[y2kFrog]

Steven has done great job of reporting on TCU the last couple of years. However, I see where TCU is coming from with this story as he seemed to have referred to too many unnamed sources and many of the rumors going around on social without getting interviews/comments from the people involved with assault or TCU.

 

[#8.]

"he seemed to have referred to too many unnamed sources and many of the rumors going around on social without getting interviews/comments from the people involved with assault or TCU"


Tough to do when staff was trying to sweep the whole thing under the rug.

 

[Double D]

Symptoms of bigger issues.

 

[tetonfrog]

This is what I was worried about: it is blowing up & becoming a bigger distraction.

 

[FroggleRock]

Should SJ have published a story with unsubstantiated “sources”? Absolutely not. Should TCU pull his credentials over it? Also no. TCU needs to be the adult about it and give him a chance to apologize. He wasn’t trying to damage TCU or dox the victim. He’s done a lot of fantastic work for the school/program and loves TCU.

 

[peacock]

Ridiculous and small minded …self-inflicted wound

 

[Traveling Frog]

Does this mean we are going to step up our PR game to replace the lost media attention. TCU just killed any good free media we were going to get. Short sited to piss off media companies as it is already being posted everywhere. Who made this decision. Suspend him one game if you want to do something.

 

[NovaScotiaFrog]

We saw all of the attention LSU was getting recently and thought "We want some of that".

 

[Frog45]

Charmin

 

[Shorty]

TCU is getting hammered pretty hard by journalists and the public.

 

[peacock]

What was essentially a local story that was fading away is now a national story...great job athletic department! #idiots