A Youtube Fiesta: How to throw a temper tantrum at the news media, and not
I don’t follow sports, so I apologize for being behind the curve on Mike Grundy, football coach for Oklahoma State, who thew a temper tartrum at a press conference about a column written about one of his players. Here’s the original tirade:
Here’s the response by the columnist and her editor:
And here’s Grundy’s follow-up:
(Obvious) lessons learned: If you’re going after the news media, and you’re claiming a significant chunk of an article is false and innaccurate, a point-by-point explanation would help the case. If following up, continued defiance, beligerance and contradiction ends up making the hole even deeper.
But we knew that. By way of contrast, check out O.J. Simpson’s attorney response to the news media (and his handling of the Jimmy Kimmel goof):
