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Originally posted by TriggerMN
A few years back, the St. Paul Pioneer Press knew about the Clem Haskins/tutoring fiasco at Minnesota, but held the story for 4 months, then broke it the day before Minnesota's first round NCAA tournament game. If you know about the story, fine, run it. But don't hold onto it until it can do the most damage.
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Although it's possible, I doubt that newspapers time their stories to inflict maximum damage. Rather, I think they time their stories (when they can) in order to maximize sales of the paper. Running the Minnesota tutoring story in the summer just isn't going to generate the same amount of interest as it would if the story ran just before the NCAA tournament starts. Timing it for the start of the NCAA's premier event guarantees that it's a national story immediately.
Just my two cents.
Chuck