Lynn Hoppes to ESPN

I read Lynn's blog entry and I think that's a fair explanation, particularly after going back to read his initial column in which he urged jobless writers to stick with this and not abandon their passion. I still think think that it can be dangerous to lay the ol' passive-aggressive guilt trip on guys trying to put food on their families' table, but no longer do I feel he's being inconsistent. Lynn values good journalism, not necessarily just that printed in a daily newspaper, and wanted to go somewhere he felt the resources to practice it were still dedicated.

Criticism revoked.

 

Yeah, I wonder how many ASEs are left to fight over this job. Seven? Eight? ;D

 

ESPN, which I thought had a hiring freeze, has the market cornered on bad sports editors. First, Starks from St. Louis. Now, the full-of-himself braggart Hoppes.

 

Friend of mine jumped from an NFL beat to the four-letter last summer. Based on the way that paper (like so many others) has slashed and burned since then, I don't know if he'd still have a job there, much less the same one.

Maybe the events of the last few months have changed Hoppes' view of the future of the industry? They sure have mine.

 

In Orlando or in the industry?

 

Spoken like an apseloser.

 

Hahaha. We don't call those "openings" anymore. We now call them "attrition," and they make corporate happy (well, as happy as corporate can be these days).

 

No matter what you've said in the past, if you are employed by or affiliated with certain companies (e.g., Tribune) you probably deserve a mulligan for a move such as this. Not every officer went down with the Titanic, either.

 

i do not blame lynn in the least.

but he surely is a hypocrite. no two ways about it. know how you avoid that? by keeping your effin' mouth shut. he didn't by speaking out urging loyalty to papers. he talked the talk but didn't walk the walk.

again, i don't blame him. just sayin' he's gotta man up and take the slings and arrows.

 

1. Does this make him Bill Simmons' boss? Have fun with that.

2. ESPN Page 2 is journalism?

 

Found Jeff MacGregor's column on there Monday. Does he qualify?