Randy Pete Retiring
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Randy is a legend - wishing him all the best in retirement. 50 yrs in one job is amazing, impressive, insane!!
Jamie Pollard, TJ and Matt Campell after hearing that Randy is retiring:
Do they even need to replace him? Does the register even have 20k subscribers?
In a few years, Randy will be complaining about his seating arrangement at an old folks bingo parlor.
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Never had any ill will towards the guy. Most of the time he seemed to do a decent job. But he definitely had more than his fair share of head scratching questions.
Hope his replacement, in whatever form or fashion that becomes, is at least decent.
Hope his replacement, in whatever form or fashion that becomes, is at least decent.
Agree, I would occasionally run in to him at pizza joints and bars in the eastern suburbs, nice guy that loved to talk sports.
He wasn’t the greatest reporter. My only issue was when he blamed the court storming for his broken leg, but the video came out showing that no one even touched him.
Not going to bash him. Wish him well in retirement.
I, too, thought he was generally fair towards ISU and I hate the idea of being covered by a homer. Journalism, even in sports, is so much better when it can be objective.
My issue with Randy Pete wasn't that he didn't bleed Cardinal & Gold, it's that he wasn't a good reporter and the questions he asked at pressers were embarrassingly bad and often far too long winded.
Never understood how the Rag had two people covering Iowa State.. It's a one person job as long as you have an editor and publisher
They have two covering Iowa.
I don’t know why you’d ***** about having two reporters. Seems pretty stupid. Sports is probably a big reason why some still get the paper, so it makes some sense to invest in it.
I mean, if you care about a well-informed citizenry and the cause of democracy and all the individual rights, freedoms and liberties it bestows upon you, the disappearance of "the paper" and local / investigative journalism in general should be a concern and no joking matter. A free, independent and I'd say vibrant press in this time of continuing disappearance of mainstream journalism is essential to our government and avoiding a slip (or slow tumble) into autocracy or one-party rule or total lack of freedom. I worry about the constant and slow erosion / disappearance of local journalism to check local governments, state governments and those institutions and people in power:
Just look at the countries around the world that don't have freedom and have fallen into autocratic rule and misfeasance or worse, malfeasance and corruption. They often have constitutional rights on paper just like ours, but not in practice / reality. They're just words if "the people" and those in power don't follow them. That's why the appearance of a demagogue like Donald Trump who lies about many things of public importance, not the least of which was an election he lost but continues to claim fraud, was "stolen" and whip-up a gullible, angry and sizeable group of Americans enough to storm the capital after a legitimate election, and someone who calls the Secretary of State of Georgia (a Republican, Raffensburger) to "find him votes" as Trump was recorded to say, is scary. There's less journalists and well-resourced news rooms to report on public officials. EVERY PUBLIC OFFICIAL, regardless of political party.
Anyway, good luck to Randy Peterson. I hope the Register replaces him, but I keep subscribing for the purpose of local news reporting more than sports. If we lose sports coverage for ISU, it will feel unfair if Iowa continues to get coverage, but the reality is that local government reporting is much more important and as long as that continues and they don't lose further news reporters / investigative journalists, it will be alright.
