I just tried to get Newsday.com to launch in my browser and got a blank screen. Does this mean that Jim Dolan has crashed the site because he didn't like our coverage of Mike D'Antoni's introductory news conference yesterday?
Neil Best, our beloved Media WatchDog, has been and will continue to be delving into issues such as this now that Dolan's Cablevision has agreed to buy Newsday from Tribune Co. Richard Sandomir of The New York Times -- a former Newsday scribe -- delves into the Dolan School of Journalism in today's editions. Johnette Howard, yours truly, and the WatchDog himself are quoted in the article, as are current Newsday editor John Mancini and former Newsday editor Howard Schneider.
I shared news of the Cablevision purchase yesterday with D'Antoni's agent, Warren LeGarie. "I know," LeGarie said. "That's one of the reasons we wanted to come here. We wanted to be able to control the coverage."
That was a joke, of course. Dolan has been trying to control the coverage of his teams for years, so I wouldn't expect that to change.