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PERSON OF THE WEEK
Armen Keteyian, CBS News chief investigative correspondent: Keteyian was soft on Bill Belichick. That was my initial take upon watching the two minute and 45-second edited interview that ran during the CBS Evening News last week. It provided too much of a one-sided forum for Belichick to blast former employee Matt Walsh. But watching the 14-minute video posted on the CBS News Web site, as well as reading the transcript in full, proved my initial take was wrong.
Keteyian was fair and tough. He pressed Belichick when the subject called for it. The full transcript also offered Belichick time to expound on the subject. It's remarkable that the producers of the CBS Evening News didn't let viewers know that the entire interview was available online -- a huge missed opportunity. But at least I know how to submit a story idea to Assignment America with Steve Hartman.
DUDS
• ESPN Radio's John Clayton and Jeremy Green (both of whom are usually solid) lamented on Saturday about the over-the-top coverage of the Spygate saga. Both hosts also decried that there was nothing left to talk about involving the issue. The two hosts then proceeded to talk about the issue for 20 minutes, including playing three clips from Keteyian's interview with Belichick.
It's an old radio shell game to lament about the overexposure of a story as an intro to talk about the same story. How do I know? My radio partner (a talented guy named Rich Redanz) and I occasionally committed the crime when we were working for our 50,000-watt employer in Buffalo. Certainly Green and Clayton should have talked about it the day after Keteyian's interview -- especially on a show titled The Huddle.
Green later bellyached that Matt Walsh had offered little news upon meeting with Roger Goodell. Well, after meeting with the NFL Commissioner, Walsh told HBO and the New York Times that he was coached on how to evade NFL rules and that the Pats assistants knew about the team's illegal taping of signals. I'd call that news. And so would Clayton and Green's employers, who have (correctly) covered this with an army of reporters.