Oh Happy Day!! Oh Happy Day-ay!!!

[4Q_iu]

Hallelujah! Crapitz is FINALLY leaving the Star! It won't save the paper BUT it will make the paper a bit more palatable!

http://www.ibj.com/kravitz-leaves-star-for-job-with-wthr/PARAMS/article/49052

 

[TreeTop]

Would be great and nothing short of amazing if the new columnist they hire could be an ISU grad.

Kravitz was an IU grad.

 

[bent20]

Would be great and nothing short of amazing if the new columnist they hire could be an ISU grad.

Kravitz was an IU grad.

Wouldn't make a difference really since the newspaper dictates what the sports department covers. Will be interesting to see what's left of the Star once the dust settles with Gannett.

 

[BrokerZ]

People still read the Indy Star?

 

[xfactor9600]

First people complained about Bill Benner and then Kravitz. I'm sure the next guy won't be free from criticism either

 

[Bally #50]

Just to stir the pot a bit, but IMO, Kravitz does a very good job with MOST things he chooses to write about. I don't agree with some of what he writes about but he's dead on with much of it. I suppose it is an age thing because most of my friends like him as well. He'll be a great addition to channel 13. As for the paper, well that's another story. Losing a columnist is never an easy situation and their standing in the community likely took yet another hit with Bob's departure. I dropped my subscription to the Star long ago, but only because of the idiots that delivered it and couldn't follow simple rules of where I wanted the paper put and I wasn't about to pay $26 a month and have to search for wherever they decided to leave it every day.

 

[4Q_iu]

First people complained about Bill Benner and then Kravitz. I'm sure the next guy won't be free from criticism either

I wasn't a huge fan of Benner but at least he was skilled/talented. Didn't agree w/ his positions but Krapitz is an idiot; to call him a hack would be to much of a compliment. Not sure he's ever been 'right' on a sports topic

 

[Sycamore Proud]

Kravitz had many who liked it writings, and many who didn't like anything he wrote. Eithere way, I think he did a good job of what he was hired to do. He and his opinions sold newspapers.

 

[4Q_iu]

Kravitz had many who liked it writings, and many who didn't like anything he wrote. Eithere way, I think he did a good job of what he was hired to do. He and his opinions sold newspapers.

I dropped my IndyStar subscription pre-Gannett sell-out. The only times I read Krapitz was an analog copy sent to me by a family member or friend; and today, a URL.

In all honestly, the few times (in the past 2-3 years) that I've read him... he's held true to form -- a hack.

 

[Sycamore Proud]

I can't say that I disagree with any of this.

I dropped my IndyStar subscription pre-Gannett sell-out. The only times I read Krapitz was an analog copy sent to me by a family member or friend; and today, a URL.

In all honestly, the few times (in the past 2-3 years) that I've read him... he's held true to form -- a hack.

 

[shootingsycamore]

Bally #47 is correct. Kravitz is the best the Star had to offer and has a broad view of sports. Although I often disagreed with him, he always answered my emails and upon occasion would publish them. ISU athletics needs to improve to a point where serious coverage outside the Wabash Valley is warrented. Right now the institution isn't there.