ESPN Ombudsman clears the air

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=schreiber_leanne&id=3699581

She clears the air regarding Holtz and his "Hitler" comment. She also explains the non-reporting of the Glazer scoop regarding Favre and the Lions.

 

meh...

 

Vince Doria is a whore.

 

Ya think?

 

I don't know if we have enough bandwidth to discuss this:

 

Frankly, this is journalism as it should be.
ESPN deserves applause.
Predictably, it gets none. It gets "meh."

 

21, are you saying you don't buy Doria's reasoning? A lot of what he says makes sense.

When I was 22, I wrote a whole column about how a New York Times writer called me at my small paper to try to work on some story about some unethical behavior by sports team executives involving some guy who was trying to start a "fan union." And how they were going to smear him to get him to stop what he was doing. And when we didn't get anything to support those allegations, I wrote a column about the whole thing. The headline was, I'll never forget this, "We don't have a story." Named all the names and everything.

I think that was pretty damned unethical, even though every word was true. So I understand Doria's thinking in this case: Do you really run the "I don't beat my wife" denials in order to report a story you yourself can't get in the first place?

(As an aside, by the way, the NYT reporter at the time: Tony Kornheiser. )

 

Well CLEARLY it would be more scintillating if T.O. was discussing it instead of Le Anne Schreiber.

 

I'm extremely happy to report on the Hitler front that I apparently was NOT the one who provided the incorrect context cited in her column, although my original post did reference the Michigan program. But I got the quote right:

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/62518/

 

Actually, I was referring to her column. Was disappointing this month. Lacked its usual punch overall.