i'm without speech

[shockey]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8437724/Glaze-Across-America:-Breaking-Favre-

discuss.

 

[dixiehack]

I know I'm supposed to hate it, but somehow I don't.

And $100/hour for a foot massage? I'm in the wrong damn line of work.

 

[Stitch]

Give Glazer the Pulitzer now.

 

[OnTheRiver]

"Glaze Across America" sounds like a porn movie title.

 

[Stitch]

"Glaze Across America" sounds like a porn movie title.

He's only doing it because he really needs the money.

 

[zebracoy]

I know I'm supposed to hate it, but somehow I don't.

And $100/hour for a foot massage? I'm in the wrong damn line of work.

Not to mention a sports journalist with that kind of money.

 

[shockey]

"Glaze Across America" sounds like a porn movie title.

He's only doing it because he really needs the money.

putting himself through law school?

 

[shockey]

I know I'm supposed to hate it, but somehow I don't.

And $100/hour for a foot massage? I'm in the wrong damn line of work.

Not to mention a sports journalist with that kind of money.

expense accounts are great when you're the glaze.

 

[Write-brained]

Couldn't get through it. The egos on these sports guys breaking a non-story story like the Favre trade is unbelievable to me.

Can you imagine the reporters who broke the Walter Reed story acting like this?

Dumbass.

 

[imjustagirl]

Dude, a non-story? Really?

 

[pallister]

Ya, the leadup to the actual story was overplayed to the nth degree, but what Glazer broke was big.

 

[Batman]

Call it Glaze Across America: The Favre Chronicles.

Starring Peter King ...

Chris Berman ...

and the ESPN Players...

 

[The Big Ragu]

"Breaking" the Favre story is just nonsensical to me. It's not like you are breaking a top-secret White House plan to invade Iran 6 months from now or you are breaking open a Watergate scandal.

It's news that is going to work its way out one way or the other and whether you had it an hour before anyone else, by the time the whole world knows details, no one cares who got the story a few minutes before everyone else. It's his job to try to break news and to try to be first. But you are taking it to an extreme, in my opinion, when this is your idea of a scoop and you are taking yourself this seriously -- to the point that you think casual sports fans give a ****.

Back in the days when you would get it into your paper and the other paper in the city didn't have it, you had a legit scoop. In this day of Internet and 24-hour cable news, there are few legitimate scoops. Someone gets there first, but within minutes or hours, everyone else is there, and by the time the world catches up and it is on Joe Sixpack's radar screen, no one remembers or cares who was there first.

 

[Write-brained]

Dude, a non-story? Really?

Well, it's a big story in the myopic world of sports journalism. But seriously, act like you've been there before.

 

[Write-brained]

"Breaking" the Favre story is just nonsensical to me. It's not like you are breaking a top-secret White House plan to invade Iran 6 months from now or you are breaking open a Watergate scandal.

It's news that is going to work its way out one way or the other and whether you had it an hour before anyone else, by the time the whole world knows details, no one cares who got the story a few minutes before everyone else. It's his job to try to break news and to try to be first. But you are taking it to an extreme, in my opinion, when this is your idea of a scoop and you are taking yourself this seriously -- to the point that you think casual sports fans give a ****.

Back in the days when you would get it into your paper and the other paper in the city didn't have it, you had a legit scoop. In this day of Internet and 24-hour cable news, there are few legitimate scoops. Someone gets there first, but within minutes or hours, everyone else is there, and by the time the world catches up and it is on Joe Sixpack's radar screen, no one remembers or cares who was there first.

I actually agree with Ragu here.

 

[Stitch]

NY Times reporting on NSA wiretaps is breaking news. NFL trade where Glazer's source happened to beat someone else by a few hours at most, no important.

But the real question is being missed? Did Glazer get a happy ending?

 

[shockey]

"all the president's men" -- and its subject matter -- were lessons in investigative journalism worth a how-to for everyone.

"breaking" the favre trade news by minutes? um, not so much.

the chronicling of the "scoop" was a prime lesson in how this biz has become a mockery of a sham of itself. man, has any group of folks taken themselves more seriously than the tv/.com legion of nfl reporters?

yikes!!!

 

[Bullwinkle]

You guys have no respect. This is no way to treat an "insider."

 

[Montezuma's Revenge]

Couldn't get past about the first 4-5 grafs of that piece of drivel.

And yeah, what Ragu said.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

Couldn't get through it. The egos on these sports guys breaking a non-story story like the Favre trade is unbelievable to me.

Can you imagine the reporters who broke the Walter Reed story acting like this?

Dumbass.

It oozed intolerable ego... to me.