Check for yourself - is there now a news blackout?

I have repeatedly pointed out how vastly differently the PJ Star staff covered Geno Ford compared to Jim Les -
but now even though we only have five months of experience we can also see a huge difference in the way they are covering Brian Wardle & his Bradley Braves (or lack of coverage) compared to how they covered Ford.

Go back to 2013  in the Geno era - between July 4 and Labor Day Dave Reynolds had at least 4-5 columns about BU basketball...and a couple about recruits...
...this was the year they went to Bahamas so it might be understandable - and also Bobby Parker blogged about 20 times, and there were lots of tweets praising Geno, the team, the superior recruiting, etc...

Then in 2014 again Dave Reynolds had 5 columns between July 4 & Labor day...mostly recruiting...
but even tho Austin Barnes had been arrested - Dave was almost completely silent on that -- the only coverage of Barnes was from unnamed Sports Department writers called..
"Journal Star Staff"
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140919/SPORTS/140919001

Reynolds also tweeted FREQUENTLY in 2014 about how Bradley was doing
https://twitter.com/DaveReynolds2/status/509342686374285313

and when he did write about Bradley and had the chance to address the Auston Barnes arrest - oddly he mostly ignored it...seemingly acting only as PR-agent telling us gobs of great stuff and hyping BU basketball under Geno endlessly.  The spin was so over-the-top dripping positive that no way Geno'd be ably to live up to it so they were unknowingly setting him up for a fall.
http://www.pjstar.com/article/20140909/SPORTS/140909203/12701/SPORTS?rssfeed=true&utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

http://blogs.bradley.edu/bloggingwithbp/2013/08/
http://blogs.bradley.edu/bloggingwithbp/2014/08/
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=24206


Now it's like a blackout - the only info on Bradley basketball coming from BradleyFans.com
Even BOBBY PARKER hasn't blogged at all since May 28, and not one blog entry about basketball since Brian Wardle hired.
http://blogs.bradley.edu/bloggingwithbp/2015/05/


So why all the complete lack of coverage??  You may like it or not, but if you say the PJS staff has treated Jim Les, Geno Ford, and Brian Wardle equally then please show me the tiniest evidence - since I see enormous evidence to the contrary.
They went so far overboard to build up Geno, exaggerate whatever good there was, make up plenty more good that didn't exist, overrated everyone, and ignored all the bad stuff - almost sweeping the discipline issues, arrests, and suspensions under the rug - even totally ignoring some of the suspensions.
I swear - it was almost as if they had money or their jobs riding on helping Geno (and thus Cross & Glasser) succeed so they hyped everything as success and if anything negative happened they distorted fact to try to blame it all on someone from the past.

BTW - this distortion and rewriting of history is still their #1 ploy as they just tried to pull it again and fabricate some argument that it was Ken Kavanagh who discontinued the Itoo Supper - when that was totally false.  Ken himself saw this lie as worthy of contacting the Journal Star staff and demanding a retraction - which did happen.

Now under Brian Wardle, lots and lots of good things are happening - despite having an incredibly young group - perhaps the youngest team in the US - and despite that they look good & Dave even admits he's seen them work out & practice - there's nothing.
And when yet another Geno player stepped out of line and had to be booted (Jones) - again virtually nothing more than a short concise statement.  No effort to dig or come up with the police report or exaggerate and lie about ligature marks or choking with hands...
What's up - they're shootiong themselves in the foot - the loyal Bradley fan base would love decent coverage of Bradley basketball and yet they're not getting it except from BardleyFans.com
There's no wonder the traffic & page views at BradleyFans trump the entire PJS web site  - people know...

There was one really nice column on Dr. Chris Reynolds although it didn't even touch on basketball.
But then, every other new outlet also has covered Chris Reynolds extensively - HOI news, WMBD, even WMBD radio....so that Chris Reynolds column was just a little catch-up.
The other news outlets have had gobs or other pieces on Bradley, their summer workouts, their community service, their work on and around campus, etc...
So be prepared for scant coverage and tepid assessments of the really great stuff happening.  I would laugh my *** off if any of the coverage compares our recruiting class to the best Bradley has ever had - or likens our big men to Donald Reese or Bayo - or talks about a 17-loss season as vast improvement predicting a TOP FOUR finish...