Recent content by henryhenry

mediocre might be too kind... http://sportsmediaguide.com/announcements/the-mind-of-nick-saban/

is this the first thread on verducci's conflict? seems like it would have been aired out already.

right on.

Lipsyte extended himself. He picked a complex topic. Interviewed a lot of people. Plunged into areas of coverage that are subtle and not easily articulated. The point is, if ESPN is going to do journalism -- and not just sports coverage or sports journalism -- it needs to raise its game...

"overwritten and pretentious" from grantland: http://sportsmediaguide.com/announcements/tennis-writing/

now he's the WWL ombudsman. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/more/news/20130527/espn-ombudsman-robert-lipsyte-paul-finebaum/ so what is he going to say about the layoffs?

brilliant. this guy needs to move beyond sports.

i know of a reporter who is seeing a shrink because of tweeting. he can't sleep. gets up to tweet in the middle of the night. obsesses about being beaten by a tweet - even on live coverage of games. told the shrink that he's depressed by the 24/7 relentlessness of it all.

Fluto Shinzawa seems happy enough. http://sportsmediaguide.com/announcements/fluto-shinzawas-kitchen/

what strikes me about these e-mails is how narrow simmons is. he tends to turn everything back toward the nba.

you wish you were clever enough to write "Done. Career should be over."

You're the guy who wrote: "Done. Career should be over." Now you don't seem so sure: "Whether or not he works thereafter..." What happened? Did your knee jerk so hard it knocked some compassion into you?

i guess that makes Bill Simmons soft on crime. a wimp. journalism is no place for wimps. it's for manly men who pronounce "death penalty" with boldness and conviction.

the point is that there are shades of gray each circumstance is different one size fits all is a knee jerk you don't have to think or parse. lazy justice.

poynter's take http://www.poynter.org/how-tos/leadership-management/136198/have-newsrooms-relaxed-standards-sanctions-for-fabrication-and-plagiarism/