Sports media abandon fans in effort to comfort owners-Mushnick

2/13/11, "There used to be a credo handed down to those in the business of gathering and reporting the news:

• “Comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable.”

The sports media here have abandoned the afflicted, thus serve to further comfort the comfortable. We fluff their pillows, smooth their linen, tuck them in at night. There’s

• more media outrage over a blown save than

a perfectly useful, 33-year-old football stadium — and two massive, multigenerational fan bases —

• being blown up to make way for PSL Stadium.

Wilpon has support of (Larry) King

ESPN’s “Outside the Lines,” this morning at 9, examines the Madoff/Wilpon/Mets mess. Heard from is Larry King, a high school chum of Fred Wilpon. King said he invested with Bernie Madoff on Wilpon’s recommendation, but defended “Freddie” as someone who would “never, ever do a dishonest thing or screw a friend.”"

• 2/13/11, "Media never presses issues for fans," NY Post, Phil Mushnick

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