Pete Thamel on Dustin Johnson vs. Pete Thamel on Tyrann Mathieu

[lcjjdnh]

Josh Levin from Slate compared two Pete Thamel profiles of "troubled" athletes. Very interesting. Begins about 1 hour and 16 minutes into the podcast.

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[lcjjdnh]

Levin again does a great job dismantling a profile (on Josh Rosen) by this hack Thamel. Toward the very end of this podcast:

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[playthrough]

Did Thamel steal your parking spot or something?

 

[Earthman]

Did Thamel steal your parking spot or something?

Maybe he was caught kinging it in the bike lane

 

[lcjjdnh]

Did Thamel steal your parking spot or something?

Just someone that wishes he could find a better use for the enormous platform he's been afforded than tut-tutting teenagers.

 

[LongTimeListener]

That's a sad existence for Josh Levin, to be that obsessed with a guy whose name wouldn't register with 0.1 percent of the public.

 

[lcjjdnh]

That's a sad existence for Josh Levin, to be that obsessed with a guy whose name wouldn't register with 0.1 percent of the public.

"Obsessed"? Levin has a weekly sports podcast on a fairly popular website (Slate); he dedicated a few minutes during that podcast--twice over a 20-month period--to discussing a series of absurd profiles written in the country's preeminent sports magazine.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Uh-huh, and he also wrote about Thamel here, calling him the NCAA's hall monitor in chief.

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But he's not stalking the guy or anything.

 

[lcjjdnh]

Uh-huh, and he also wrote about Thamel here, calling him the NCAA's hall monitor in chief.

How Harvard Became Part of the Problem with College Sports

But he's not stalking the guy or anything.

Some might say that chronicling a bunch of teenagers tossing a ball around (and lecturing them for good measure) is a "sad existence" for Thamel.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Some might.

Some might also look at Slate's daily offerings -- all of which carry the budget line "everybody is wrong about everything" -- and get a good laugh out of the fact that other somes consider executive editor Josh Levin to be an insightful authority on the news.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Reads like a hit job to me.

By the originator of this thread.

 

[lcjjdnh]

Some might.

Some might also look at Slate's daily offerings -- all of which carry the budget line "everybody is wrong about everything" -- and get a good laugh out of the fact that other somes consider executive editor Josh Levin to be an insightful authority on the news.

Some might.

Some might also look at Slate's daily offerings -- all of which carry the budget line "everybody is wrong about everything" -- and get a good laugh out of the fact that other somes consider executive editor Josh Levin to be an insightful authority on the news.

Yeah, they should take a cue from a beacon of journalistic excellent like Pete Thamel, and instead write about dead people that don't exist:

http://deadspin.com/5976841/how-sports-illustrateds-manti-teo-story-got-published

 

[LongTimeListener]

I can't tell if your hard-on originates from love of Levin or hate of Thamel. Probably the latter.

 

[lcjjdnh]

Reads like a hit job to me.

By the originator of this thread.

Listen to the first podcast cited and let me know if you think it was fair. Then we can debate which was a bigger "hit job": a story about a college kid in national sports publication read by hundreds of thousands of people, or my post about a professional journalist on a message board read by a few hundred.

 

[jr/shotglass]

I could give a **** what Thamel did or didn't write or say. And you may or may not see that you come off as somebody with a personal axe to grind.

 

[lcjjdnh]

I could give a **** what Thamel did or didn't write or say. And you may or may not see that you come off as somebody with a personal axe to grind.

Sorry for trying to discuss journalism on a journalism message board. Why'd you open the thread if you "could give a **** what Thamel did or didn't write or say"? I don't know Thamel and don't have any personal axe to grind.

 

[Earthman]

Forgive me but who is Josh Levin? It seems like a daunting task to listen to his 90 minute podcast to even understand his point. For the record I've been a big fan of thamels college sports work since his days at NYT.

 

[Southwinds]

What's a Josh Levin?

 

[CD Boogie]

What's a Josh Levin?

He talks into a voice recorder for the listening pleasure of those self-satisfied assholes you don't want to sit next to at a dinner party.