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Grantland so far

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Alma, Jul 14, 2011.

  1. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    Yeah , cheap shot. Besides it would be pretty boring if thompson wrote about salad bars, protein shakes and tofu.

    BTW Thompson bears striking resemblance to John Candy:

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  2. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    It IS a dick move, no two ways about it . . . surprised we haven't seen a Haley Barbour photo, yet . . .
     
  3. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    I think I'm the sort of apologist Alma was talking about with this site.

    It's a major mistake to think upon this as being a one-stop shop for sports. It's not. Simmons doesn't mean for you to walk away thinking the Women's World Cup is the only story in sports on Friday.

    Grantland is a buffet, and you certainly don't ladle up everything on a buffet. Some of the pop-culture offerings are not of as much interest to me than others. But I usually can tell by the topic and leave them alone.
     
  4. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    I'd say more like a farmer's market. Maybe you don't grab anything everyday, but you want to check out what's new.
     
  5. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    I was hoping it would be a top notch mens club where you want to grab everything.

    That of course was back in the day- before 21.
     
  6. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    You mean the whole week. Go back and look the whole week of content. It's women's world cup and Yao Ming retiring.
     
  7. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    Point taken. I can't argue that.

    My contention is if it's a series of good stories on those two subjects, I'm not going to walk away disappointed.

    Frankly, I thought they took two stories to hammer home one point about Yao. We get it. He blazed a new frontier.
     
  8. Versatile

    Versatile Active Member

    The Yao Ming essay by Jay Caspian Kang, who is often very good, seemed to reduce the basketball player to a generic Asian. The feature by Jonathan Abrams was significantly better, in my opinion, but perhaps someone with Chinese (or Japanese, I suppose) roots could relate to Kang's essay. I'm not sold.
     
  9. Alma

    Alma Well-Known Member

    To use your buffet analogy, though, good stories on those two subjects is akin to multiple versions of three-bean salad and bread pudding. No meat. No potatoes.

    I look forward to a bolder, more cohesive site.
     
  10. Boom_70

    Boom_70 Well-Known Member

    So far it has the buffet quality of Golden Corral at best.
     
  11. Small Town Guy

    Small Town Guy Well-Known Member

    We need Baron to weigh in on what type of car Grantland is right now.
     
  12. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    And if it were a tree ...
     
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