Quote Originally Posted by NewTweederEndzoneDance View Post
Ya'll do realize that a beat writer works for a newspaper, not MSU, and his entire job is to write on the team he is assigned to, both positively and negatively, to drum up subscriptions, page clicks, etc so that the newspaper can generate revenue, right?

Gay men playing college/professional sports is a HUGE story throughout the country. It's not like the guy irresponsibly made up something in order to create a stir. We may not like what he did or said, but the man is doing his job. It has always amazed me that we (and most fan bases I'd assume) castrate the beat writers because in the opinion of the average fan, we think he/she should be nothing but a mouthpiece for our school. We've had this argument about beat writer after beat writer for years now.

/queue the "but Ole Miss/Bama/etc" doesn't put up with this BS, retorts
Here's the deal. He may be doing his job, but I'm not going to pay for his job if he is going to throw MSU players under the bus.

The kid made a mistake and tried to back out of it. It wasn't an issue until Bonner made it one. Bonner took a screenshot of deleted tweets and made that public. His audience is supposed to be mostly MSU fans, and as a member of that market segment, I'm not going to put up with his negativity anymore.

I am not defending the player's action or stance in any way, but I'm not going to support a writer that doesn't understand what I want to read.