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Fox Sports' Jen Floyd Engel: Manziel is the new Rosa Parks

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Steak Snabler, Aug 9, 2013.

  1. 93Devil

    93Devil Well-Known Member

    Probably a better comparison, but won't get you as many web hits.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Lee_Sutton

    If any player was to sit down on the field for a few plays to make a statement, Jadeveon Clowney would probably get more public sympathy than Johnny Drinksalot.
     
  2. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    If she's doing that, she's even more wrong. The shift in how NCAA athletes should be compensated is far from a social movement. It affects very few people and almost no one is fighting for it.
     
  3. Double J

    Double J Active Member

    It frustrates but doesn't surprise me. Why hire a talented writer when an untalented but controversial writer will get you the page views you want?
     
  4. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    An earlier tweet from her:

    Riley Cooper may never escape racist outburst but almost impossible to fake contrition he's showing. Possible he starts needed race convo.
    12:44pm - 6 Aug 13

    So now we have Riley Cooper and Johnny Manziel as the agents of change toward an enlightened society.

    This is a writer with less than zero perspective and balance.
     
  5. SockPuppet

    SockPuppet Active Member

    Mizzou: Agree that Curt Flood is a better analogy than Rosa Parks.

    Also, as is pointed out on The Big Lead, the "tipping point" for Civil Rights probably happened in 1964 when the 3 white civil rights advocates were murdered in Mississippi. That got the attention of "white America." In the retrospect of history, Rosa Parks is credited with starting the movement but at the time she sat down on the bus, it didn't create the outcry that the dead civil rights workers created.

    And totally agree with others: Floyd's column needed a heavy duty filter - editor(s) - to save her from herself.
     
  6. H.L. Mencken

    H.L. Mencken Member

    At least Whitlock invoked race in a way that wasn't nonsensical. A much better column.

    http://msn.foxsports.com/collegefootball/story/whitlock-johnny-manziel-heisman-ncaa-game-changer-texas-am-aggies-autograph-scandal-080713
     
  7. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    How is she a better comparison? Johnny Manziel was not trying to organize the student-athlete proletariat or make a statement. He was trying to buy rims.
     
  8. D-3 Fan

    D-3 Fan Well-Known Member

    Which brings up a question that I heard: why didn't Johnny get his old man to buy the rims when he got the car in the first damn place?

    It would have made perfect sense.
     
  9. SirTypeAlot

    SirTypeAlot Member

    She is completely unqualified for her job. It sickens me to see people like her have that kind of platform. And, I might add, she's a total jerk, too. Know several people who know her and she is just not a nice person and doesn't care.
     
  10. greggdoyel

    greggdoyel Member

    Enough's enough. She's unqualified for her job? She just won the APSE column-writing contest for the biggest circulation group. You know people who know her? You don't know me, and I think she's fabulous. Sweetheart of a person. Go away, jerk.
     
  11. 3_Octave_Fart

    3_Octave_Fart Well-Known Member

    Or Big Boy Gregg will challenge you to a fistfight.
     
  12. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    I'm not sure many national columnists are qualified to be really good national columnists. Wetzel's out in front.

    Engel won the APSE for best columnist for 2012, incidentally. So someone thought she was good.
     
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