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"Outside The Lines" featuring... Bill Simmons!

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by MacDaddy, Oct 2, 2008.

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  1. spaceman

    spaceman Active Member

    39 footnotes.
     
    spaceman, Oct 2, 2008
    #13
  2. forever_town

    forever_town Well-Known Member

    I saw some of Newman's cereals in the local grocery store today.

    It made me sad.
     
    forever_town, Oct 2, 2008
    #14
  3. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Maybe I just wanted to make it FHB's problem instead of mine? :)

    I read the first segment, then got bored. It's too bad. I think Simmons writes well. Better than a lot of people on here want to give him credit for. I'm just not all that interested most of the time; not anymore. I have no idea if I am representative of most people. I'm usually not representative, so I won't trash the guy.
     
    The Big Ragu, Oct 2, 2008
    #15
  4. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    Awful, awful article but he makes one very interesting point about Boras orchestrating Manny's actions.
     
    JC, Oct 2, 2008
    #16
  5. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    I tried again.. I think I got 2000 words or eight footnotes into it and gave up.
     
    slappy4428, Oct 2, 2008
    #17
  6. jgmacg

    jgmacg Guest

    I wonder if perhaps the footnotes are a wrongheaded homage to the late, lamented DFW.
     
    jgmacg, Oct 2, 2008
    #18
  7. Joe Williams

    Joe Williams Well-Known Member

    Him and all the newspaper honchos who believe that "clicks" now dictate everything when it comes to what gets covered, how it gets covered, who covers it and so on.
     
    Joe Williams, Oct 2, 2008
    #19
  8. VJ

    VJ Member

    It's a joke that any news organization would allow its writers to use the term "we" in a story that's labeled as a legit news piece.
     
    VJ, Oct 2, 2008
    #20
  9. bigbadeagle

    bigbadeagle Member

    Yeah, but he ain't the first to do it, nor is he the best to do it.
    Selah.
     
    bigbadeagle, Oct 2, 2008
    #21
  10. apseloser

    apseloser Member

    This is my new favorite website. I thought I was the only one who thought Simmons was a hack. Glad to see I have company. Still, an awful lot of people who click on his work.
     
    apseloser, Oct 2, 2008
    #22
  11. Ben_Hecht

    Ben_Hecht Active Member

    Nice handle.
     
    Ben_Hecht, Oct 2, 2008
    #23
  12. TheMethod

    TheMethod Member

    Exactly. Why not just write that column, a column that needed to be written, and be done with it?

    There's that old saying that nothing that has ever been written couldn't be made better by shortening it by 25 percent. With Simmons, it's more like 65 percent.

    That column accomplished nothing, other than "summarizing" Manny's career in Boston, using everyone else's reporting. But at least he had a Jamie Lynn Spears reference in there.

    This is the opposite of what Outside the Lines is supposed to be.
     
    TheMethod, Oct 2, 2008
    #24
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