Denver Post writer goes postal on ESPN

This could have been a persuasive entry, but it collapsed under the weight of its indignation. Among the problems: the junior-high reference to sticking something where there is seldom sunlight; broad-brush accusations -- in this case of taking credit for breaking news -- without specific examples to back them up; and personal attacks. If Rachel Nichols reports something as soon as she can, she's not at fault if a TV producer places "ESPN's Rachel Nichols reports that Pacman Jones will be charged with two felonies" as a crawl at the bottom of the screen. That's a marketing decision for which the field reporter is not at fault.

 

That rivalry has been dead for some time.

I think that this one was an actual hatefest after that puke Claude Lemieux rearranged Chris Draper's face. Nothing staged. Those guys hated each other.

Dater should have invoved the 24 hour rule, calmed down and then written it.

 

Couldn't agree more that Dater picked the wrong people to call out when he named Werder, Nichols, Mort and Stein. That's just incredible. There isn't a sports editor in the country who wouldn't make room for those four on a newspaper's staff, the Denver Post among them.

 

Too bad the Post is cutting like all the rest of Lean Dean's offerings to "make room" for them or anyone else.

 

The entry seems to have disappeared ...

 

Yeah ... does anyone know where the rest of us can read this now?
Anybody copy-and-paste before the deletion?

 

LOL @ him calling out Rachel Nichols. Umm she used to work for the Post... no, not the Denver Post — the big boy Post.

 

The moral to the story is don't drink and blog...

 

Damn. Figured I should have grabbed it when I posted the thread.

 

Big Lead snagged some of it:
http://thebiglead.com/?p=2589

 

An epic modern example of the wisdom of employing the cooling-off period.

 

Usually it's the readers who have to be censored in a blog. The page title is still there in the URL. Sad to say, he managed to misspell 'leach'.