No One in Cincinnati Likes Anything

Via the Wizard of Odds, I see that the wheels have come off another Cincinnati institution. The Cincinnati Post will close its doors at the end of the year. This past weekend, the Bearcats' coach called out the Cincinnati media generally for not being a "a credible source of information."

Post columnist Ronnie Wheeler take the opportunity to inform the coach that he actually underestimates the degree to which the Cincy media sucks:

The issue is not, as so many UC fans have hotly supposed, about a conspiracy theory against the Bearcats. For heaven's sake, it's not about some editor's rooting interest in Ohio State or Xavier. And it's only partially about Cincinnati football.

Rather, it's about playing the game at the appropriate level. It's a matter of spending the dollars necessary to do what needs to be done, a consideration that of course goes to the top of the respective corporations.

... if the Reds or Bengals went about their business as The Post and the Enquirer do, we'd rip them from here to there. And we have.

Emphasis mine, because bloggers (and if WoO's comments are any indication, radio callers) always go after the reporters as the elitist S.O.B.s who are trying to hide the truth from us all.

For some reason, people usually just talk their way around the 800-pound Ned Beatty in the room. Cheers to Wheeler for taking it on.