“On Bleacher Report, nobody knows you’re an unemployed marketing rep.”

Fans of college football programs demand to know why their rival schools get such cush treatment from local media. Alabama fans ask, why weren’t the Auburn beat reporters more aggressive in covering the Cam Newton case? Auburn fans want to know why Alabama reporters so readily accept the University’s talking points on its various issues? [...]

AU journalism prof. John Carvalho probes the sociology of Auburn’s sociology scandal five years later.