ESPN "Office Space" Lynn Hoppes

What an utter fucking embarrassment.

 

So much wrong with that.

Think Poynter's ombuds will write about that?

 

When I saw the thread title, I thought perhaps someone had taken his red Swingline stapler.

 

I guess we know why ESPN didn't bust the Fiesta Bowl committee. John Junker? Seen his junk in the locker room.

 

I am an avid reader of pg 2 and had no clue who the editor is.

I do know that it has become a top flight site with great writers like Wright Thompson and Jeff McGregor.

The quality of writing is now on par with The New Yorker

 

I feel like Boom and Frank participated in an intricate neurological experiment, and some really weird stuff happened.

 

I sat in on a presentation he gave to a group of college media people in New York City and I think he name-dropped Puff Daddy, Jeremy Shockey and some other semi-popular pop cultural figure, completely unprompted. He also used the F-word (in a professional setting) about three times and - as a side note - said he drove a Mercedes. I'm making none of that up.

 

Dreadful. Bordering on embarrassing.

And to think he could have been uncovering a scandal involving a BCS game instead [/crossthread]

 

Thompson and McGregor don't write for Page 2. Page 2 is Bill Simmons, D.J. Gallo, Jim Caple, Thomas Newmann, Greg Hardy, Jerry Greene and a bunch of sports-in-pop-culture bloggers.

Thompson writes for OTL/e60/eticket/whatever they want to call it. McGregor is simply an ESPN.com columnist.

 

Please spend your next five dollars on a copy of The New Yorker; this issue will therefore resolve itself in an incredibly decisive manner.

 

The only place I seem to be able to find Thompson and McGregor is on page 2.

It is a shame that many top notch stories get buried.

Many times the stories I come across are by "happen stance"