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"&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Julie Hermann said coverage since her arrival at Rutgers has been \"incredibly painful.\" (Rich Schultz/Getty Images)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Rutgers athletic director Julie Hermann is not a fan of the media, and she\u00A0wouldn't mind seeing a New Jersey newspaper fold.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Star-Ledger&lt;/em&gt; announced layoffs last week of 167 workers, including advertising executives, business writers, clerks and copy editors.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Speaking to a class of journalism students a few weeks ago, Hermann said it would be \"great\" if the newspaper ceased to exist.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CIf they\u2019re not writing headlines that are getting our attention, they\u2019re not selling ads \u2014 and they die,\u201D Hermann told the Media Ethics and Law class, according to the website Muckgers.com, which provided a copy to NJ.com, a website that works in conjunction with &lt;em&gt;The Star-Ledger&lt;/em&gt;. \u201CAnd the Ledger almost died in June, right?\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CThey might die again next month,\u201D a student said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;\u201CThat would be great,\u201D she replied. \u201CI\u2019m going to do all I can to not give them a headline to keep them alive.\u201D&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;DEITSCH: Tracy Wolfson, Allie LaForce to get expanded roles at CBS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When Hermann was hired last year, the newspaper reported allegations that she was verbally abusive to players when she was a volleyball coach at the University of Tennessee in the late 1990s.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She told the journalism class that coverage of her when she got the Rutgers job was \"incredibly painful,\" and that the allegations were false.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Said Hermann: \u201CI\u2019ve got one guy over at the &lt;em&gt;Ledger&lt;/em&gt; \u2014 he has one mission. That\u2019s to get any [athletic director] at Rutgers fired. That\u2019s his hobby.\"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Still, Hermann sympathized with the struggling business.\u201CI try to be compassionate with the media, believe it or not, because I recognize what their job is \u2026 [and it] is getting just more and more challenging,\u201D she\u00A0said.&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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