Peyton Manning controversy and Cam Newton controversy

Recently I blogged on the controversy behind Cam Newton's interviews before the Super Bowl. Since then he has lost the Super Bowl and had caused an issue in the media about his character and being immature for his actions towards the media right after his teams loss and the days following. In his case the media bashed him for being unapproachable to the media and his obvious annoyance of their questions after a hard loss. I feel like if I was in Cam Newtons shoes I would have probably acted in the same manner. They tried to tear him down at a time where he was at his lowest. Then we look at his counterpart in the Super Bowl at quarterback, the well praised Peyton Manning. In recent weeks the Denver Broncos quarterback has been brought up with a scandal involving his Alma Mater, University of Tennessee. The school and the football program are being sued by several young woman for there blatant disregard for sexual misconduct and rape attempts by players over the years. In Peyton Manning's case an athletic trainer accused him of expose himself to her in a jokingly manner. In this case the media, especially ESPN, is not bashing Peyton Manning at all. In a way they are trying to preserve his image as this great figure in pro football and since the thought of him retiring is coming up they want him to go out on top. They have defended him saying things such as "this already has been brought up before", and "we should move past this as we did before". Recently I caught a segment on this, and the issue of how the media had portrayed Cam versus how they are portraying Peyton came up. As the segment was ending on the Peyton Manning and his involvement in the University of Tennessee scandal, ESPN anchor Jemele Hill brought up the question of if Cam Newton was in this predicament how would we view him and how would they try to break his image. Because if the media gave him hell about walking off an interview podium, fulfilling his media availability requirement after a tough loss, what would they do if he did what Peyton Manning did. What do you guys think? Also do you think Race, and Status have something to do with this?