ESPN: NY Giants media slacking on coverage

[Wonderlic]

Can't you lazy bums churn out some more work for the Worldwide Leader to aggregate? Damn.

http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast

I'm sick of banging my head against my desk every morning looking for a second Giants link. Nobody who covers or blogs about the Giants is writing anything right now unless the Giants sign someone or one of their guys signs somewhere else. Since that didn't happen Tuesday, there's nothing out there. Go ahead, check for yourselves. I'm open to suggestions. You guys tell me what the second Giants link should be. I can't find it.

 

[Stitch]

Sources say ESPN wants to piggyback on newspaper coverage.

 

[beanpole]

I wonder if that was meant for publication. I don't think it was.

 

[Azrael]

It's a blog. Isn't it a blogger's job to aggregate links from other sources?

 

[JackReacher]

Florio has apparently made quite a living out of linking to other people's work.

 

[steveu]

Wow. I didn't think ESPN would notice. They were so busy turning themselves into The Jeremy Lin Network there for a couple weeks.

How about this, guys: NOTHING HAPPENED. The Giants didn't make moves. The Jets have been a little more active.

 

[bigpern23]

So the Giants are writing anything unless something actually happens. Hmm.

 

[BillyT]

Who cares?

It's almost baseball season.

I will care at the draft and when summer camp starts.

It's not like they're going to sign Tim Tebow.

 

[HanSenSE]

If the Giants fall down in the forest, will angels dance on the head of a needle?

 

[DanOregon]

Surely someone Tweeted something.

 

[Smasher_Sloan]

They're all working on Super Bowl books.

 

[Point of Order]

Nothing happens with Giants on Tuesday

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Nothing happened with the Giants on Tuesday and nothing is likely to happen on Wednesday either, several sources have confirmed to the DailyGiantsStory.com.

"Nothing's happened today," Giants spokesman Guy LeDouche said. "Probably won't be anything tomorrow, either."

Tuesday marks the first day that nothing has happened with the Giants since March 28, 2003. It was only the fifth time nothing has happened in the modern era.

 

[Fran Curci]

My first-glance impression is that the writer was ticked there was no material for him to rip off. How about reporting and writing it yourself?

 

[Wonderlic]

I especially like how this ESPN blogger came back for more about 2 1/2 hours later...

Been a couple of hours since the breakfast links, in which I pointed out that there is almost nothing being written anywhere in print or on the Internet about what the Super Bowl champion New York Giants are up to these days. And nothing's changed. Still nothing out there. No rumors, no reporting, nothing. But I have Giants fans (I think) who still come here to read this blog, and it's a disservice to them if we allow the inertia of the coverage to dictate our content.

 

[dooley_womack1]

The Onion ought to hire that blogger

 

[JPsT]

You know how somebody always comments in threads linking to Poynter that it's the first time they've been to Poynter since Romenesko left? It's like that for me with ESPN's NFC East Blog, but with Matt Mosley instead of Romenesko.

 

[Den1983]

Pretty ridiculous of that blogger. Makes him look completely unprofessional. I understand the point of the blog, but for readers who don't, all they see is someone griping that no one's doing the work for him.

 

[Elliotte Friedman]

If I was a Giants reporter, I'd send the guy a tweet saying, "How about finding a story yourself, jerkoff?"

 

[Stitch]

If I was a Giants reporter, I'd send the guy a tweet saying, "How about finding a story yourself, jerkoff?"

To be fair, the blogger was eating breakfast links his mom cooked for him and brought down to the basement, so he couldn't report. Plus, he was playing Madden, so that takes up most of the day as well.

 

[beardpuller]

They're all working on Super Bowl books.

Probably true. And they might be due just a little comp time.