No details available from today's meeting yet, but the Kamloops Daily News is reporting that the Blazers' ban on Daily News sports editor Gregg Drinnan has been lifted.
Finally. Three weeks later than it should, but it ends the way almost all of us thought it should.
Update: first article available, provides a few details such as the fact that the ban is lifted without conditions, and Ron Robison admitting that the Blazers violated the league media policy with the ban.
Now we just need the league to lay a nice big fine on the Blazers, to discourage any team in the league from ever doing this again. If there is no punishment, then its only a matter of time before somebody else tries it, knowing there will be no consequences in the end.
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This is still a limp wristed response by the league and Robison. Rothenbuger says in the article that Drinnan is reinstated "without conditions" as it should be. Yet in Keens blog it says he was reinstated and that the paper agreed to be "fair and balanced" in it's coverage of the Blazers. Where is the evidence to show that it wasn't? It sounds like a cryptic threat to me and it also sounds like a condition. Clearly there is still a difference of opinion between the paper and the team/league. Without a fine to the team or a public apology, this matter will remain a festering sore. It also puts Greg in a awkward position that he doesn't deserve. The Blazers look like bullies and a bush league organization. It makes Robison and the WHL also look bush league.
The media gets to hold the team accountable. Who holds the media accountable Alan?
The same people who hold accountable any other business - the consumers.
If you don't like the product, don't buy it or support it.
Economics 101.
Holding the media accountable? Accountable for what?
Reporting facts that aren't all lollipops and rainbows?
Sorry, but the truth hurts sometimes.
It's not up to the Kamloops Blazers to decided what can and can't be reported. They should worry about their on ice product instead of what people around the league are saying in the media.
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