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Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt had UA booster co-sign loan

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by dixiehack, Nov 29, 2007.

  1. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

    Offered without comment.

    http://www.tidesports.com/article/20071128/NEWS/71128027/1011

     
  2. spinning27

    spinning27 New Member

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    This thread should be fun
     
  3. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    ... "the juror's attention ..."
    You mean there's one juror? Interesting civil justice sytem in Alabama.
     
  4. HoopsMcCann

    HoopsMcCann Active Member

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    whoa...
     
  5. Angola!

    Angola! Guest

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    Why didn't Hurt tell his bosses about this? He had to know it was going to come up in court. At the same time, if it was a loan he took out, then what is the problem? I am sure it doesn't look good because it is an athletics booster, but I don't see what's wrong with borrowing money to help with medical expenses.
     
  6. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    I think the problem is that the guy who co-signed for his loan was later found to (or in the process of being found) to have given illegal benefits to players in the program that Cecil covers. The appearance is that perhaps Cecil might have known more than he reported or intentionally ignored unflattering facts about Keller when writing about the NCAA case.

    Now, I personally don't call Cecil's objectivity into question (and I don't think many who have worked with/alongside him would either), but some --- particularly outside the business --- might.

    I also think an interesting hypothetical would be, had Cecil told his bosses about this loan in 2000, would he still be covering Alabama or working at the T-News right now? Also, the T-News is owned by the New York Times company, which has had its share of ethical problems with reporters in the past, so that might figure into this as well.

    Anybody had experience with a similar situation? What was done in that case?
     
  7. Yawn

    Yawn New Member

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    I bet there's where CNHI's money is going. It is in Birmingham, mind you.
     
  8. I'll never tell

    I'll never tell Active Member

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    huh? T News is a NYT paper, isn't it?
     
  9. BYH

    BYH Active Member

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    Oh, my guess is he'll have a lot more critics inside the biz than outside it.
     
  10. Pencil Dick

    Pencil Dick Member

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    I've never seen the words "Cecil Hurt" and any form of "objective" used in the same sentence before.

    Tuscaloosa is a NYT Regional Newspaper Group property.

    I'll be interested to see how this situation plays out.
     
  11. wickedwritah

    wickedwritah Guest

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    Why would a newspaper editor have to go to a booster for a loan?

    How does that conversation even go down?

    I don't know what Cecil's condition was at the time, but it shows a lack of judgment. I'm sure there are a bunch of mitigating factors at work here, though.
     
  12. Steak Snabler

    Steak Snabler Well-Known Member

    Re: Tuscaloosa News: Cecil Hurt took loan from UA booster

    Considering that he works at the paper in a city where the Crimson Tide is the ONLY game in town and 99 percent of his subscribers are Alabama fans, I think Cecil's as objective as he needs to be. He's certainly not a comical homer in the Phillip Marshall sense of the phrase ...
     
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