Arkansas Times editor Max Brantley throws Poolsville contributer Robert Shields into the mix in discussing the SEC's crackdown on new and old media.
"But I was also was thinking about Robert Shields, a self-made sports columnist who labored long, hard and well to cover the Razorbacks with mostly contempt from the Hog press lords. (The Times has no dog in this hunt. We've never been denied press coverage rights because we haven't sought them in years.) Why should the D-G and a select few others be granted a free franchise to coin money off the Hogs and not anyone else? Simple question, unaddressed by today's coverage and most of the other coverage I've seen. (I almost wrote this same piece yesterday, after reading the Times. Wish I had so you couldn't have raised the red herring about D-G. Who defines "legitimate" media?"
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