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Manish Mehta

Sports Barf said:
Did a brief glance at the ex-Deadspin guy running NYDN sports department's tweets to see if there was any more news about Manish. His feed is basically video games and tweets about how Nate Silver is racist. Seems weird.
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The dude's a joke. He put e-sports on the back page and acted like the NYDN had taken some great leap forward. No one who's reading a print edition gives a flying fork about e-sports. Heck, no one who's reading the NYDN in any format gives a fork about e-sports.
 
Woody Long said:
The dude's a joke. He put e-sports on the back page and acted like the NYDN had taken some great leap forward. No one who's reading a print edition gives a flying fork about e-sports. Heck, no one who's reading the NYDN in any format gives a fork about e-sports.
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Did I read this thread right? NYDN was considering......fighting the suspension? Uh, what?
 
I don't think anyone in that interview came across very well.

I'm surprised that a beat writer for the Jets getting his credentials revoked and the paper hiding the fact for months isn't a bigger story.

Mehta always struck me as someone whose opinions outran his actual knowledge. His writing was always so personal and I can't remember anything he wrote about stuff on the field.
 
There are two sports media writers in New York (neither of whom works for the Daily News), but they haven't gone near this story.

They're obsessed with sports talk radio ratings, but this ... not so much.
 
Is the NYDN newsroom still located in the classic building on 42nd? It's not clear from what I've seen.
 
The Daily News still has not hired a Jets beat reporter nearly two months after Mehta was canned and there haven't been any public job listings for one. They're still getting by with a young guy named Dennis Young, who calls himself a "sports blogger and editor" for the NYDN in his Twitter bio, in the interim - just heard him ask a question in the Saleh introductory presser. I get that it was a terrible team going nowhere at the end of 2020, but now it's the start of a critical offseason - they could trade for Deshaun Watson, for all we know - so when are they going to treat it like the important beat it is and hire a full-timer?
 
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