No Roethlisberger stories on ESPN.com

I just passed a TV with no sound and Ravitch talking with a photo of Ben on the screen. Couldn't find the remote. Is the WWL covering this now?

 

Yes.

 

Another coverage note:

The print edition of the New York Times I saw yesterday had Roethlisberger as the lead item in Sports Briefing.

 

I don't get the times in print....sounds like it was buried, correct?

 

lead brief, bottom of second or third page

 

Not surprising. Not sure how many papers should give it front page coverage. Obviously, the Pittsburgh papers and maybe the papers within a 100 mile radius.

 

a lot of guys on the Roethlisberger coverage thread seem to think it was front page National news.

 

ESPN's latest lame explanation:

ESPN spokesman Bill Hofheimer sent PFT a statement Wednesday night detailing the network's position.

"Based on the sensitive nature of the story and other factors we mentioned, we initially exercised caution and did not report it," the statement reads.

"Since then, we've been observing how the story has progressed, monitoring other news outlets, and doing our own reporting. We decided to report the story tonight."

First of all, "our own reporting," has consisted of posting the AP story on the web site, and the TV guys simply paraphrasing that. They've done zilch of their own reporting.

Second, I'm sure Mike Tyson, Kobe Bryant, Pac Man Jones and Roberto Alomar had wishes EPSN exercised the same kind of caution.

Between this and Erin Andrews, is this the worst week in ESPN history?

 

You have absolutely no knowledge of this. Whenever you report (if you do), do you use every bit of what you get? Maybe what ESPN reporters got was covered in the AP story? Or maybe they're working on longer-term stories?

You know NOTHING about any reporting that's been done.

(Full disclosure: neither do I. Just saying that to say because no byline is on the site means no one's working on this is a joke.)

 

Cowherd went off on this today and said it wasn't different treatments for different people and wasn't racist because it was a civil suit. And he cited examples of civil suits against black athletes they didn't report.

I'll never agree. I understand the thinking, actually, but once this story came out and was out there on dozens of outlets, the "world wide leader" had to report it, even it just underplayed it.

 

I agree to a point, but if they did do their own reporting and got the same stuff AP had, why wouldn't they use their own byline?

I'm sure they've done their own work, but to say "we decided to report the story..." then they should use your own byline. Show your work.

Not a huge deal either way. Just seems weird to say all that and then use AP copy, that's all.

 

I seem to remember a certain civil suit against one Orenthal Simpson getting breathless Mouse coverage.

Cowherd's shit is weak.