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Monday Morning Quarterbacks:Trial By Media

    Hey, everyone. Just been watching the mess up at Penn State. I guess I don't understand why they fired Paterno. There was an alleged crime which he had nothing to do with. Joe did not see the alleged crime take place. When told about it, he reported it to his superiors and he winds up getting in trouble for it. I must be missing something here.
    From experience I can state that once you get a certain age, it is hard to be the sharpest knife in the drawer. Everything gets more difficult. When you are under the microscope like famous people are, you will never get it right. What must it be like to have a million people second-guessing your every decision? After a lifetime of having concerned alumni play Monday morning quarterback and try to tell you which play you should have called in Saturday's game, now you reach the end of your career and have the media people try, judge and convict you for something you had no control over.
     I've had people like NRC analyze decisions I've made. Everyone is brilliant when it comes to hindsight. I'm pretty good at that myself. Seems like it might be a bit of a stretch to know the proper response for a mess like this. Forget about any sports related baloney when it comes to life. People are more important than games. I dislike people who try to make someone a scapegoat just to relieve the intense scrutiny of modern media. Their thought is, "We have to do something".
    Speaking of the media. I remember events like the Scott Petersen situation. That guy was tried and convicted by the media before he was ever charged with a crime. Dozens, (hundreds) of talk shows that need something to talk about so that they can make a living, seem to render a fair trial next to impossible in many instances. It becomes an accepted fact that the lady in Florida killed her kid or Scott killed his wife. This is not the American way. Is 'innocent until proven guilty' just a neat slogan from a more noble time? Or is it a principle more important than a 'free' press? These are questions that are beyond my limited powers to answer.
     Never have I been more grateful to be left out of a decision making process. I suppose that I shouldn't second guess the Board of Trustees at Penn State like this. That probably makes me a Monday morning quarterback and I suppose that I am a member of the media as well. From the author's green retreat, I'm CE Wills.

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