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PJ Star article- Taylor Brown

Da Coach said:
But DRU, this thread has been dragged out to 5 pages because some people do believe that just because it says so in the PJ Star, those details must be true.
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I don't think too many people think this is the case... It's obvious that the facts that have been reported are just that, facts. However, facts can be incorrect. The only thing the paper can go on is the facts that are available to them. No one knows if the paper tried, successfully or not, contact TB or the other party to dig deeper into this. No one knows if all of this information came from the police report or other sources. Maybe the PJS contacted someone that works at Macy's to see if TB was indeed "staring" at this guy. Maybe they interviewed someone at the frat party that saw the guy provoke TB into hitting him. No one really know where any/all of the info is coming from. The paper has to report something... they went with what they had.
 
Yes, this was a black frat party going on in Haussler because they are doing construction inside of the Garrett Center right now. The parties have surprisingly been pretty tame so far this year, usually when they are in the Garrett Center, it's fights galore, criminal damage, etc.

This was just a little punch, everyone has said their apologies, President Glasser is aware of it and i'm sure Taylor has been internally disciplined. Taylor messed up, he'll pay his fine in court and i'm sure he'll be a model citizen from here on out. Incident is over with.

Jason



Da Coach said:
And one more clarification- It's my understanding that there was a Bradley fraternity party going on in Haussler Hall that was the reason TB was there. There were also non-BU students at the party, as there always are. The altercation occurred outside of Haussler, but TB went back into the party.
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Jack Bauer said:
Something happened, and a BU player got arrested. It's getting to be commonplace...and tiresome.
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only two other BU players this century have gotten arrested ...Ruffin & Battle (about 6 years ago)...a couple others got citations for underage drinking..
The BU cases always get tremendously overblown attention while we have proven that other MVC local media seem to ignore stories of this nature and won't print them.

I have pretty solid evidence that the number of such cases at BU is by no means even in the top HALF among the other Valley teams, but I would still like to see none at all.

but to link together..."Ruffin.......Wilson....the star transport issue..." (your quote)
this is silly...these are mostly minor things, the "star" thing wasn't a crime and was the result of the inadvertent action of the Star employee!
Wilson never had a DUI...
......way overblown, hardly the kind of criminal activity seen elsewhere....
UNI, MSU, even Northwestern, Wisconsin, and U of I have all had break-ins, robberies, thefts, assaults, etc....in the same past few years
In fact, it would be hard to find a school that's had less of this than BU if you want to get into a mudslinging fight.
 
dogsrus said:
Are you telling my Reynolds is lying about what he is reporting.....?
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Spinning and lying are two different things just ask a politician. What the PJS is doing with Reynolds' article is spinning it so they can sell more papers. Why would you find that as not possible. Politicians spin things all the time for votes and papers now day spin the news so they can sell more or in some cases advance some moral political viewpoint. This TB news should not take center stage for what it is IMO but it has. I'm not condemning Reynolds for doing his job but I do not have to like the way he is spinning this and every other BU incident that helps him keep his job. Again if you do not think that most news you recive is not doctored a bit then we will never agree on this. News has become entertainment that needs to be sold, so why not embellish it a bit to be able to sell it a bit easier. There are not to many media outlets that I take at face value anymore.
 
Nacho said:
...that have been reported are just that, facts. .....
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OMG--- no way...
allegations of staring, threatening gestures....those are far from facts...
actually not many facts were presented at all...just that the police were told there was an altercation near Haussler and that TB was arrested.
Beyond that all the rest is yet to be determined factual.
 
lefty said:
I agree with that but I don't think one person is going to buy a paper to read this article....
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but there are plenty of people who have and will click on their web-site due to this article! You get paid per-click now days just not by what is printed in the papers.
 
SFP said:
but there are plenty of people who have and will click on their web-site due to this article! You get paid per-click now days just not by what is printed in the papers.
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I'm familiar with pay per click advertising but who's paying who when you click on this article?
 
who cares....the point is that if they know something will get more clicks and if clicks mean advertising money...
is it beyond a stretch to think they pursue what's going to get clicks?

It's as simple as this....if a guy gets money by selling cars, he will do what he needs to do to access more people and sell more cars, right?

I prefer to get my news and info from a site that's totally independent of that kind of conflict...a site that NEVER sells space or "clicks" for $$...a place like.....
BradleyFans.com!!
 
tornado said:
OMG--- no way...
allegations of staring, threatening gestures....those are far from facts...
actually not many facts were presented at all...just that the police were told there was an altercation near Haussler and that TB was arrested.
Beyond that all the rest is yet to be determined factual.
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Please don't just quote part of my post to make your point. That is why I said FACTS CAN BE INCORRECT. What some people view are facts are different then others, apparently. It is a FACT that the paper had some source(s) about what happened that night. It was not their opinion. Allegations are facts, until proven right or wrong. They are not opinions...

I don't understand what is so hard to understand about what I have said in 99% of my posts on this thread... NO ONE KNOWS EXCACTLY WHAT HAPPENED ACCEPT TB AND THIS OTHER GUY... It could be absolutely nothing, or it could be something more serious... Tornado- can you at least agree with that? It is possible it is nothing- it is possibly that it is serious!
 
lefty said:
I'm familiar with pay per click advertising but who's paying who when you click on this article?
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I just clicked on it and right now it has some Scooter company, Yahoo job, Nieman Marcus in Palo Alto and SF which is directly targeted to me. So what is your point if you know how this works?

The advertisement money goes to the PJS, PERIOD!
 
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SFP said:
I just clicked on it and right now it has some Scooter company, Yahoo job, Nieman Marcus in Palo Alto and SF which is directly targeted to me. So what is your point if you know how this works?

The advertisement money goes to the PJS, PERIOD!
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My point is I advertise on there as well for so much a month...I don't pay anymore for someone clicking on an article or my ad for that matter.

I imagine it's the same there
 
I also believe that for the most part this is a non-issue. God only knows that I got caught up in stupid sitauations when I was in college. The only difference is that the police were not involved and I wasn't on the front page of the PJS. whew...8) I want to hear both sides of this story as I firmly believe that something or somethings provoked TB to react the way he did. It's a leason learned for TB and I hope he and everyone moves on and not turn this into more of a pi%$#@@ match than what it has already become.
 
lefty said:
My point is I advertise on there as well for so much a month...I don't pay anymore for someone clicking on an article or my ad for that matter.

I imagine it's the same there
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Would you advertise there if no one clicked on their site? The fact is that advertisement fees are based on viewership. So if you wanted to advertise your wares on the Washington Post it would be a lot more expensive then the PJS. The more people click on their site the more they can charge.

On another note are you managing the ability to see where your leads are coming from? Is there a splash page on your site to determine the people that go from the PJS to your site? It is a numbers game no matter how you slice it. That is why I am not bashing the PJS for spinning stories, I just do not have to take what they shovel at us as the gospel truth. There are ulterior motives behind most business desisions right or wrong.
 
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