the media elite?

Following their game on Saturday, Oklahoma State University's head football coach Mike Gundy had a bit of a tantrum at his post-game news conference (follow this link to watch). He was angry about an article printed in the Daily Oklahoman about a quarterback on his team that he had recently benched. For what its worth, the Daily Oklahoman was listed by Columbia Journalism Review as the nation's worst metro area newspaper. Coach Gundy said that the article was unfair to this young man. To say that he was angry at this paper and writer would be a gross understatement. I don't know if he was being fair. What interests me is the response of the news, particularly sports, media. So as to illustrate my point, here are links to articles from ESPN.com's Pat Forde, Fox Sports' Randy Hill, and the Sporting News' Mike Hayes (who identified him as a "loser.") It seems as though the media is jumping on him because he dared to defy them. Through their control over the electronic media, they can command the attention of just about everyone. If you listened to any talk radio, particularly sports, for the last two days, it was impossible to escape this story. Furthermore, it was impossible to escape him being criticized. I am not saying he war right. I just don't think it was the content of his complaint that was being judged. It was that he dared to call the media unfair. One defense of this writer that I heard repeatedly was that she was just doing her job. So is a drug dealer. How does that justify anything? In my pop culture class, I usually find myself in the opposite position. I usually am defending the media against the notion that they have any anti-American or family conspiracy. I do not think this is a conspiracy. I do think there seems to be a notion of brotherhood amongst writers and commentators. I have no objection to that. But when that gets in the way of objectively reporting the truth, it seems that the news media has failed to do their jobs.