SB Nation pulls Daniel Holtzclaw longform piece

Who the hell writes a piece making excuses for a serial rapist? Today's journalists. Fanboys.

Yeah, journalism is shit.

 

Fantastic take. Some might even call it hot.

 

I feel as though a lot of this is exactly right. But "you get what you pay for" also applies to consumers—in this case, readers. What do you want for free? Books are making a comeback, and I feel as though (or maybe I'm just hoping that) we're reaching some stage when most of the stuff online is trash, and it's a mire to wade through to find the good stuff, and readers demanding quality will return to more traditional forms of media, places they know and trust to deliver well-reported, well-written, and well-edited stories.

Maybe "Worth the Paper It's Printed On" should be the new rallying cry for we, the analogists.

 

Hey, if vinyl can make a comeback, why not books?

Seriously, one of the most frustrating parts of journalism for me as first a writer than a union representative has been the realization that relatively few consumers discern and demand quality.

 

It's like people who look at Real Housewives and the Kardashians and say TV is terrible today. There's just more of everything, ranging from terrible to great.

 

Glenn has resurfaced, sorta, and if you expected this to deliver him a dose of much-needed humility, well, no.

GLENN STOUT.NET » ABOUT LONGFORM

Please note that it is not appropriate at this time for me to make any additional comment. The work speaks for itself:

Sure does.

Also his Twitter is locked. LOL.

 

Pound for pound, I believe they did more with less, and often with better results, than any print or online site in the country.

 

I'm not sure Arnold would qualify as a journalist. A sports reporter, ok. Not a journalist.
I doubt he covered much of anything to even begin to handle this kind of depth, much less anything outside a sports arena.
There are a ton of reporters - sports and news - who could've done a better job on this.
This debacle gives credence to the notion of sports as the toy department. I don't think it's an indictment of journalism as a whole. Just sports. Small time sports reporting in particular.
And it's a wholesale failure on the part of the editing process to have let this story go unchecked, much less vetted the writer to see if he was even capable to handling it.

 

I agree, that should be their only comment. The fact people involved in the process went on the record with Deadspin for a hit piece probably tells you how SB Nation gets along internally. But hey, like Gordon Gekko once said, "If you want a friend, get a dog."

 

I have TWO!