Whitlock wronged by Playboy

[melbatoast]

wow. that's the most arrogant column i've ever read. ever.

 

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The readers do not approve:

http://pod01.prospero.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=25153&nav=messages&webtag=kr-kctm

 

[Tom Petty]

The readers do not approve:

http://pod01.prospero.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?msg=25153&nav=messages&webtag=kr-kctm

one reader wrote about the clown:

"Now write something about the Royals."

funny. as. heck.

 

[DanOregon]

The news folks are sticking cameras in Wright's face like they do with Coulter, hoping he says something inflamatory, and he is giving the folks what they want. Wright has undone his lifetime work in the last few weeks. I don't see how continuing to give him (or Coulter) additional attention does anything for the viewer. Does it make the viewer smarter and better informed? No. It's intended to stir people up.

 

[Batman]

I hope that was an online only column...

Whitlock is one of my favorite reads, but he just gave drew more attention to the column that anyone else will. If he hadn't written this, the column might have completely gone unnoticed.

The difference between this and the Golfweek deal is they had it on the cover... I'll bet 90 percent of the Playboy readers don't even notice the Whitlock column... I'm going to go out on a limb and guess he's not on the cover...

From the way a lot of men's magazines, including Esquire, GQ and Playboy, do their covers, I'm guessing there will be a mention of the Whitlock column on the cover of the magazine.

I'm going to link it because it's probably NSFW, but here's a recent cover. It practically has the content list laid out around the photo.

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee239/spreadit/gggghy.jpg

I'm sure that was an isolated example. Got any more? ;D

 

[Bullwinkle]

Was this column written for his readers or his sources?

 

[GB-Hack]

I hope that was an online only column...

Whitlock is one of my favorite reads, but he just gave drew more attention to the column that anyone else will. If he hadn't written this, the column might have completely gone unnoticed.

The difference between this and the Golfweek deal is they had it on the cover... I'll bet 90 percent of the Playboy readers don't even notice the Whitlock column... I'm going to go out on a limb and guess he's not on the cover...

From the way a lot of men's magazines, including Esquire, GQ and Playboy, do their covers, I'm guessing there will be a mention of the Whitlock column on the cover of the magazine.

I'm going to link it because it's probably NSFW, but here's a recent cover. It practically has the content list laid out around the photo.

http://i230.photobucket.com/albums/ee239/spreadit/gggghy.jpg

I'm sure that was an isolated example. Got any more? ;D

Nice.

 

[Peytons place]

I generally like Whitlock's style of writing even if I disagree with his points and am impressed by his drive and work ethic, but he's definitely been in this business long enough to know that often times, editors make changes that writers don't like. In one job I had, the managing editor actually added a couple of sentences in my story that I thought actually sounded kind of racist, and just left it with my byline (and people probably even noticed because there were no provocative photos accompanying it to take away their focus). Unfortunately, I had no access to a column to call him out, and say, hey, my managing editor is crazy and added those comments. My advice to Jason would be to just suck it up and drive on.

 

[hondo]

Jesus forking Christ.
When are you people going to realize that 90% of this forking country doesn't know nor care about Jason forking Whitlock.

Sorry dude ... I think the sooner Whitlock gets a New York Times column and his own ESPN talk show, the better.

 

[hondo]

To really render judgment I am going to have to read Playboy column but it seems like Whitlock is contradicting himself from past positions he has taken.

Here is a quote from Whitlock column that he wrote after Sean Taylor was murdered:

"You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration"

And no truer words have been written this century.

 

[RedSmithClone]

I'm not saying the Wright comments shouldn't have been covered, but I do wonder why you still cover it when you're not adding anything more to the story than bringing on new people to rightfully rebuke the comments. Do you really think the comments were played over and over again, day after day, to do provide additional insight into the comments and the pastor? Hannity is trying to scare white people. I would have liked to know what evidence Wright had, how he came to believe these things, if he does really believe them.

Actually, FOX News seemed to be the only outlet not kissing the guys ass until Obama said it was OK.
Then the others jumped on.
I think FOX was right on the money with its coverage and the fact that new info on the guy is still coming out because of O'Reilly's investigative work and the continued contributions of that radical right-wing loon Juan Williams sure have been putting the "mainstream media" to shame.
This was never an attack on the Black Church, although I think Black Liberation Theology is a joke, it was and still is a look into one man, who I think wants to join Sharpton and Jackson Sr. as the voice of black people.

 

[scalper]

To anyone trying to defend Wright: Why do you think Obama jumped from that train? Planting the AIDS virus? The government behind 9/11? Jeez, you have a statue of Oliver Stone you bow before?