Ask Tom Jolly

Here is your chance gang NYT Sports Editor Tom Jolly is taking reader questions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/business/media/01askthetimes.html?ref=sports

I fired off 2 for him:

1- Tom - is your friend Newman really as self absorbed as he comes across?

2 Why did you run Murray Chass out of your paper?

 

This could be even better than Ask Hal, The Referee.

 

At what point did you realize that Karen Crouse was a disaster on the Jet Beat?

 

Y'know . . . somehow, I don't like your chances to crack into that little section of cyberspace, in this spot.

 

Dear Mr Jolly--Where exactly IS your sports section??

PS, I really liked your answer to the badminton question, I bet a lot of people were wondering about that.

 

Dear Mr Jolly-- When did you decide to make the NY Times a green room for ESPN and Sports Illustrated, who swoop in for your 24-year-old discoveries after a year or two, rather than a destination paper for seasoned pros?

 

Hasn't the market essentially dictated that, especially vis a vis the WWL?

 

Not sure I understand your question.

 

Isn't the WWL leader ideally-equipped ($$$$$) to outbid NYT for talent which suits their immediate needs?

 

What does Mr. Scott Newman think of all this?

 

Who do you think is screening the questions??

 

Why didn't you cover my daughter's JV volleyball game?