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Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Scouter, Dec 10, 2009.

  1. writingump

    writingump Member

    Watched the first 15 minutes or so of it and couldn't take any more. It was a complete train wreck every time Reilly narrated a highlight.
     
  2. TigerVols

    TigerVols Well-Known Member

    IN fact, sounds like that's exactly what he did....after that first appearance, I heard him on some radio show talking about how terrible he was. He freely admitted that he sucked at it, and added that he wouldn't get any better.

    Making TV look easy is very, very hard.
     
  3. Joe Williams

    Joe Williams Well-Known Member

    That Reilly would even feel a need to try this, and the ESPN would let him, and that young potentially great sports writers would be lured into imitation of this, is all sadder than Greg Oden's latest knee blowout.
     
  4. mb

    mb Active Member

    The Deadspin roundup of Twitter feeds on Reilly is epic. The intro ...

    http://deadspin.com/5423300/an-angry-and-bewildered-nation-watches-rick-reilly-ruin-sportscenter

     
  5. TheSportsPredictor

    TheSportsPredictor Well-Known Member

    Did the dynamite go boom?
     
  6. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    The time has come for Rick to bend over and take it. Take it all and STFU.
     
  7. Herbert Anchovy

    Herbert Anchovy Active Member

    So you're saying it can be learned, not like writing.
     
  8. Shaggy

    Shaggy Guest

    A bad idea on so many levels. I'm saying this as a fellow writer who has TV experience on panels and being interviewed, etc. I would be a terrible anchor on PBS, much less an anchor on the most-watched sports show in the world.

    Reilly's background is print writing. Sure, he could probably write OK television copy. But it's a whole other world to actually get in front of a camera and deliver it smoothly. It's freaking hard to do, and being in front of the cameras answering questions from a real anchor as an analyst or whatever doesn't prepare you.

    I imagine there were only two people on Earth who thought this was a good idea. Rick Reilly and the higher-up that OK'd it.
     
  9. bigbadeagle

    bigbadeagle Member

    He's already telling us things other people told us days before (like Tiger needing to go on Oprah. Goddamnit. What a horseshit idea to start with and Reilly compounds the problem by latching on when the wave is gone. He is triple U.).
    But as soon as I saw him on SportsCenter, my first thought was, "Is this a fucking joke?"
    Yes. And a poor one. Directed at us, the viewing public.
    More reason to hate TSPN.
     
  10. Lugnuts

    Lugnuts Well-Known Member

    Writing is a huge part of it. People posted that Reilly was using cliches. That's writing.

    But the delivery skill set can be learned, sure.
     
  11. Drip

    Drip Active Member

    Time for him to deliver all right...... bend over.
     
  12. ...and with that, my TV went click. God must have known I was tired.
     
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