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NYT LeBron sports front

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Hey Diaz!, Jul 12, 2014.

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  1. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    Where are you seeing this praise? The OP's link said it is cheeky and that writer liked it, but I'm actually surprised nobody here even is saying they like it just to be contrarian.
     
    BDC99, Jul 12, 2014
    #37
  2. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Great cover for NYT Magazine. Supremely awful for the daily paper.
     
    playthrough, Jul 12, 2014
    #38
  3. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I did not like that, Sam I Am.

    The only time the concept worked was in a single story. Joe Falls wrote it about the Tigers sometime in the '60s. It read something like:

    BALTIMORE -- This is what the Detroit Tigers accomplished last night.











    And so on.

    Once, it was OK. Once.
     
    jr/shotglass, Jul 12, 2014
    #39
  4. VJ

    VJ Member

    Got a bunch of praise on Twitter from the media people I follow (though most of the designers hated it) and a ton of blogs including Deadspin had posts about how brilliant it was.
     
    VJ, Jul 12, 2014
    #40
  5. BDC99

    BDC99 Well-Known Member

    Yeah, just read Deadspin's. But I wouldn't expect Deadspin and SBNation to say it sucks. Everyone on this thread and everyone in our newsroom thinks it's ridiculous.
     
    BDC99, Jul 12, 2014
    #41
  6. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Sounds like something Deadspin would like, the newspaper equivalent of a cheap one-liner with nothing else backing it up whatsoever.
     
    playthrough, Jul 12, 2014
    #42
  7. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I'll give 'em this -- they did center it perfectly.
     
    jr/shotglass, Jul 12, 2014
    #43
  8. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    The fact Deadspin said it was "clever" says all you need to know about Deadspin, and anyone slurping and citing it is a joke (unless it was a couple of days ago when it rightly ripped down a certain columnist; now THAT was pretty good). This? This is a frickin' joke, and shows that Deadspin lives in the past 24 minutes and not the past 24 months and couldn't be bothered with the fact the exact same approach happened in January 2013.

    It was clever then. It was junior high-ish this time.

    Send in the clowns and Volkswagens.
     
    MileHigh, Jul 12, 2014
    #44
  9. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    The only time I liked something similar was the first time I saw it, in the mid-1990s when the sports columnist for the Peoria, Ill., paper died at a young age of a heart attack. The story on it was on 1a, and on the sports cover, his column sig was at the top left of the page in the normal spot, and the rest of the space where his column would usually go was left blank.

    I'm sure 1,000 papers had done similar things before that, but it was powerful.
     
    BurnsWhenIPee, Jul 12, 2014
    #45
  10. Riptide

    Riptide Well-Known Member

    Agree. It's a mag thingy.
     
    Riptide, Jul 13, 2014
    #46
  11. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Getting a lot of Facebook love, from what I can tell,
     
    BTExpress, Jul 13, 2014
    #47
  12. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    It'd work for a magazine because LeBron James would've signed by the time a glossy hit news stands.
     
    Versatile, Jul 13, 2014
    #48
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