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Pearlman Strikes Back

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by dirtybird, Oct 7, 2011.

  1. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    That's accurate. The David Wells story didn't help matters either.

    Fair on unfair, Pearlman is viewed as that guy.
     
  2. Cousin Jeffrey

    Cousin Jeffrey Active Member

    I think Pearlman said, either here or on his blog, that SI picked out the excerpt. If you read the book, that stuff isn't one chapter, so the effect is a little less jarring.
     
  3. Ice9

    Ice9 Active Member

    Love the "3,000-circ daily Midwestern newspaper reviews ("Pearlman's problem is he doesn't write good.")" line
     
  4. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    It's funny if you live on either Coast or work at a big publication.

    It makes him like like an arrogant dickhead to everyone else.
     
  5. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    No one is ever going to accuse Pearlman of being thick-skinned...

    What SI did is the best thing that ever happened to his book. Without that excerpt, I'm guessing that book doesn't sniff the bestseller list. I'm guessing now it will and that's pretty rare for a sports book these days.
     
  6. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Agree completely.
     
  7. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I question the marketing wisdom of the author of a book on a beloved Midwestern sports hero dissing the Midwest for any reason.
     
  8. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    I don't think he was "out to get" Walter Payton, but Pearlman should be smart enough to know that a book that says Payton was suicidal and used drugs isn't going to be welcomed with open arms by people in Chicago.
     
  9. 21

    21 Well-Known Member

    I'm sorry to pile on, but this is ridiculous.

    http://blogs.wSportsJournalists.com/dailyfix/2011/10/07/the-blitz-after-the-biography/?mod=WSJBlog&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wsj%2Fdailyfix%2Ffeed+%28WSportsJournalists.com%3A+The+Daily+Fix%29
     
  10. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    My, God I hate all this attention... Please read about it in my 18 blog entries about how much I hate all this attention...
     
  11. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    I have some experience with Pearlman. He's the type of guy to go for the bomb on second-and-1, third-and-1 and fourth-and-1. He's poked fun at southerners before, so joking about midwesterners isn't that much a surprise. But I also know he's nothing if not earnest, and honest to himself and to the work, and hopeful that you'll like it. He's definitely not the type to write something with the hope that it won't be appreciated until the next century.
     
  12. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    He's selling books. If Deadspin or the WSJ give you a platform from which to write about how upsetting the response to your new book is, you take it.
     
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