By DSR Staff
DetroitSportsRag@GMail.com
January 7, 2014
[Editor’s Note: After a one-year hiatus, the DSR has revived our year-end awards given out to the Detroit Media. Instead of one long article presenting all of the recipients at once, we will be rolling these out over the next few days. And yes, the Raggie Trophy is a Detroit snow globe, a “Made in Detroit” coffee cozy and one of Moss’s wife’s unused tampons.]
Craig Monroe Memorial Raggie
Bill Shea– Crain’s Detroit
Because the DSR is a subversive website that regularly attacks the establishment Detroit sports media, we regularly don’t receive credit for breaking stories. The thought of many in the industry is that acknowledging that the DSR exists at all will come back to haunt them at a later date.
This has started to change in recent months as mainstream media members like Tony Paul, Justin Rogers, Michael Rothstein and Kyle Meinke have all uttered the name that supposedly cannot be spoken.
But there is one absolute thief who deserves special recognition for ripping off the DetroitSportsRag without attribution over the past year, and that is Bill Shea of Crain’s Detroit.
This career loser — who is around 40 years old and allegedly inspired by Hunter S. Thompson and Phillip Roth, among others — is still working at a trade publication and jacking the hard work of others.
Can you imagine if Hunter S. Thompson was writing for a business publication at the age of 40? The “Fear and Loathing…” author would have blown his face off 27 years earlier.
Anyway, Shea locked up this Raggie for stealing Jeff Moss’ scoop that Greater Media was going to flip WMGC-105.1 from adult contemporary to Detroit Sports 105.1, and that Drew Lane would be the centerpiece of the new station.
You can catch up on that story here, as we aren’t going to waste any more bandwidth discussing this remora™ (Bill Shea). Just know that Moss and Gregg Henson broke every single aspect of the 105.1 story and that Shea lifted the material, getting credit from the Free Press, News and MLive.com for “breaking” the news.
It was despicable behavior on every level.
It was so contemptible that even Matt Dery LYING about never having heard of the DSR and then mentioning exclusive reports a couple weeks later didn’t even come close to knocking Shea off of his perch.
While the Raggie for every other category was a Detroit snow globe, a “Made in Detroit” coffee cozy and one of Moss’s wife’s unused tampons, we will be sending this Shea in honor of his win …..
Honorable Mention: Matt Dery Jacking DSR Material for “The Discussion” and Eric Lacy — MLive.com, Jeff Moss not properly crediting Justin Spiro for the Foster’s Smokehouse Contest
Best Sports Talk Radio Show — “The Discussion” with Matt Dery
Worst Sports Talk Radio Show — “The Drew Lane Show”
Best Local TV Anchor — Lindsey Hayes — Fox Sports Detroit
Best Media Twitter Account — Tony Paul — @TonyPaul1984
Worst Media Twitter Account — TIE (@TerryFoster971 and @VGoodwill)
Worst Article/Column of the Year — Pat Caputo — Oakland Press
Best Article/Column of the Year — John Niyo — Detroit News
Best TV Broadcast Team – George Blaha and Greg Kelser — Fox Sports Detroit
Worst TV Broadcast Team – Mario Impemba and Rod Allen — Fox Sports Detroit
Best Radio Broadcast Team – Dan Miller and Jim Brandstatter — 97.1
Worst Radio Broadcast Team – Dan Dickerson and Jim Price — 97.1 Best Beat Writer – David Mayo — MLive.com
Worst Beat Writer – John Lowe — Detroit Free Press
Worst Columnist – Jeff Seidel — Detroit Free Press
Worst Media-Related Restaurant Disaster – Coming Soon
The Jamie Samuelsen Award – Jamie Samuelsen — 97.1 and Detroit Free Press
Craig Monroe Memorial Award — Bill Shea — Crain’s Detroit
Best Columnist – John Niyo — Detroit News