Bad writing of 2014

I know from SJ that there was a time that Jeff was known to be thin skinned but what's the deal
with Chris Jones? Is he known to be a red ass that's an easy mark to provoke?

 

You write ONE TIME about being bummed you didn't win ANOTHER huge award ...

 

I really don't get provoking Chris Jones based on the Cruz piece. Pearlman? Yes. Wrong time to pull out the "everybody has flaws" card.

 

Meyer whooped ass last night.

 

Because there's no way that piece is getting posted on Deadspin without a Chris Jones story included.

 

Ah.

Deadspin's just too transparent for me anymore. The Gen X/millennial postmodernist BS worms its way into almost everything on the site. It used to be surprising. It's not anymore. It's still very good at times, but no longer surprising.

 

I do like the commentary on the, "You Will Weep and Know Why" piece, and think it's probably pretty close to the truth. It was written in first-person, confessional tone, it went on forever, and it romanticized Southern high school football. I swear there is a 10 percent chance it was written for no other reason than to troll the longform community.

In fact, someone should write something like that, plug in "April Fool's" at the end - or, hell, 15 inches in - and sit back and watch Twitter slobber over it anyway.

 

Only Cameron Crowe's Elizabethtown surpassed it.

 

Pearlman is complaining about it on Facebook and has already written a response.

Outside of trying to stir up a feud how does a celebrity profile of an actress for a general interest men's magazine qualify as sportswriting?

And, as always, Deadspin shows the mark of true professionalism by not calling out any of their own flawed work. That piece on the Senate candidate was very bad. Deadspin, then, said as much when they wrote a 1,000 plus word correction/apology but nowhere to be seen

 

Deadspin's "correction" on that story was 100 times worse than the infamous Rolling Stone blame-the-source correction.

 

SHWEWWW...For a minute I thought this thread was all about me.

 

I should read all these since im a bad writer ha, what makes someone a good or a bad writer?