Over the past few days a media storm surrounding Joe Paterno and what he did or didn’t know in the Jerry Sandusky scandal started up once again. As you may have noticed, VBR chose to not cover it in any way. The reason for that decision was the fact that the newest allegation and firestorm came out of one obscure line in a court document in an insurance case. Vb. does not report on allegations, which is exactly what’s out there currently.
However, while allegations that have no basis of evidence are not really newsworthy, the response by a major university’s president is.