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\nYesterday I posted an item<\/a> with the uncomfortable suggestion that coverage of the death of Lee Roy Selmon should have included the information that, days before his fatal stroke, Selmon had issued a denial of his reported involvement in a new lawsuit by ex-Tampa Bay Buccaneers players against the National Football League and helmet manufacturers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I then emailed the post to journalists at the Tampa Tribune <\/em>and the St. Petersburg Times <\/em>with this prefatory note:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I mean no disrespect to Mr. Selmon. Nor am I suggesting that this is exactly parallel to Dave Duerson; Mr. Selmon had every right to correct the record on his lack of involvement in the recently announced lawsuit, and he also had every right to believe, on principle, that such a lawsuit was wrong (if that is what he believed).<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

However, I think the juxtaposition mentioned in my blog post below should be routinely reported in the course of the hundreds of column inches devoted to Mr. Selmon’s death. And I have not found such a reference. Am I right about that? <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

An unsigned respondent from the St. Petersburg Times <\/em>sports desk, missing the point, wrote back: “If and when the Selmon family (or their doctors) choose to link Mr. Selmon’s stroke to football-related head injuries, we’ll be glad to report that.” But I wasn’t asking the Times <\/em>to wait for permission to enlighten its readers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Joey Johnston of the Tampa Tribune <\/em>was more forthright. “You have a point,” he said. “The potential parallel was chronicled the day of the stroke [last Friday], but not mentioned the day of the death [Sunday]. There’s an element of conjecture there, sure, but it all makes you wonder.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Johnston previously had led the reporting team of an excellent in-depth Tribune <\/em>story on the health plight of players from the Bucs’ first division championship team in 1979. See “Broken Bucs,” http:\/\/duke1.tbo.com\/content\/2010\/jul\/25\/260710\/bucs-first-success-came-costly-toll\/sports-bucs-broken\/<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Irv Muchnick<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"