Whitlock wronged by Playboy

[Shaggy]

http://www.kansascity.com/sports/columnists/jason_whitlock/story/601764.html

Interesting piece. And to keep this topic relevant, I'll go ahead and throw all the grenades out there ahead of time so no one else feels the urge to.

1. Whitlock has an ego.
2. Whitlock is overweight.
3. Whitlock writes about race a lot.

Now, what do you think about the piece? Whitlock gets his point across, but he'll probably lure a lot more people to the magazine, now, which means Playboy wins (right?)

Thoughts?

 

[BYH]

Yeah...people are going to "read" Playboy for the Whitlock article.

I'd pay good money to hear the guy who uses Whitlock as an excuse for the Playboy on the coffee table.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Whitlock centerfold


VISUALIZE


Heh heh...pleasant dreams.

 

[spnited]

Jesus ****ing Christ.
When are you people going to realize that 90% of this ****ing country doesn't know nor care about Jason ****ing Whitlock.

 

[Tom Petty]

Jesus ****ing Christ.
When are you people going to realize that 90% of this ****ing country doesn't know nor care about Jason ****ing Whitlock.

fire whitlock now!

 

[DanOregon]

The column seemed to be more of a, "don't blame me for the headline" piece than a column on how the media is using racial hatred and fear to make money. The job Sean Hannity and the rest of Fox News and other agenda driven outlets are doing on Wright should be exhibit A.

As it is, it sounded more like a guy who sold the rights of his book to be made into a movie, and didn't like it that they changed the title. Ask Phillip K. **** how he feels about Blade Runner.

 

[Shaggy]

Jesus ****ing Christ.
When are you people going to realize that 90% of this ****ing country doesn't know nor care about Jason ****ing Whitlock.

This thread was clearly and accurately titled. And once again, you're devilish mouse for some reason clicked on it and offered a response which brings next to nothing to the table.

If no one cares, why do you come on to every single Whitlock thread -- and I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE -- and post some hateful response? If you don't care, get the **** out of here.

 

[Tom Petty]

Jesus ****ing Christ.
When are you people going to realize that 90% of this ****ing country doesn't know nor care about Jason ****ing Whitlock.

This thread was clearly and accurately titled. And once again, you're devilish mouse for some reason clicked on it and offered a response which brings next to nothing to the table.

If no one cares, why do you come on to every single Whitlock thread -- and I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE -- and post some hateful response? If you don't care, get the **** out of here.

oh boy. and this thread started so well.

 

[DanOregon]

I agree with Shaggy. If we need a quorum on what America cared about, we'd delete almost every thread on the board (especially the journalism ones) and be left with a discussion of American Idol.

 

[GBNF]

I'm not a big fan of what he wrote or the vessel in which he wrote it, but the guy has a point.

 

[Boom_70]

To really render judgment I am going to have to read Playboy column but it seems like Whitlock is contradicting himself from past positions he has taken.

Here is a quote from Whitlock column that he wrote after Sean Taylor was murdered:

"You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration"

 

[Twoback]

The column seemed to be more of a, "don't blame me for the headline" piece than a column on how the media is using racial hatred and fear to make money. The job Sean Hannity and the rest of Fox News and other agenda driven outlets are doing on Wright should be exhibit A.

As it is, it sounded more like a guy who sold the rights of his book to be made into a movie, and didn't like it that they changed the title. Ask Phillip K. **** how he feels about Blade Runner.

Rev. Wright steps in front of a national-forum type of microphone and announces that the United States Government created the AIDS virus to surpress or eliminate minority populations ...
and it's Sean Hannity's fault.
Fascinating.

 

[Twoback]

To really render judgment I am going to have to read Playboy column but it seems like Whitlock is contradicting himself from past positions he has taken.

Here is a quote from Whitlock column that he wrote after Sean Taylor was murdered:

"You're damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When your leading causes of death and dysfunction are murder, ignorance and incarceration, there's no reason to give a free pass to a culture that celebrates murder, ignorance and incarceration"

Whitlock is not disavowing that position.
He's saying it's wrong to make that position the focus/lure to a piece that is only tangentially about that -- that to use the black KKK title on a piece about the prison system is misleading, disingenuous and unfair to his sources. And he makes that quite clear in the KC column.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Jesus ****ing Christ.
When are you people going to realize that 90% of this ****ing country doesn't know nor care about Jason ****ing Whitlock.

This thread was clearly and accurately titled. And once again, you're devilish mouse for some reason clicked on it and offered a response which brings next to nothing to the table.

If no one cares, why do you come on to every single Whitlock thread -- and I mean EVERY SINGLE ONE -- and post some hateful response? If you don't care, get the **** out of here.

Um, telling people not to post on a thread is a no-no. Free country and all that. And Whitlock's cult of personality can certainly be argued validly as a journalism topic.

Point is, one can always choose to ignore posts they don't like, which you should do with any from spnited on a Whitlock thread, apparently.

 

[DanOregon]

I'm not saying the Wright comments shouldn't have been covered, but I do wonder why you still cover it when you're not adding anything more to the story than bringing on new people to rightfully rebuke the comments. Do you really think the comments were played over and over again, day after day, to do provide additional insight into the comments and the pastor? Hannity is trying to scare white people. I would have liked to know what evidence Wright had, how he came to believe these things, if he does really believe them.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I hope that was an online only column...

Whitlock is one of my favorite reads, but he just gave drew more attention to the column that anyone else will. If he hadn't written this, the column might have completely gone unnoticed.

The difference between this and the Golfweek deal is they had it on the cover... I'll bet 90 percent of the Playboy readers don't even notice the Whitlock column... I'm going to go out on a limb and guess he's not on the cover...

 

[dooley_womack1]

That column read like something that should have been sent to Poynter as a case study in the chain of command and the importance of headlines. I can't imagine this being a compelling read for the general public.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I'm kind of surprised the KC Star ran it. I could maybe see running it at the bottom of a notes column... Even that might be a reach...

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Jesus ****ing Christ.
When are you people going to realize that 99.99% of this ****ing country doesn't know nor care about Phil ****ing Hughes.

Fixed.

 

[The Big Ragu]

Jesus ****ing Christ.
When are you people going to realize that 90% of this ****ing country doesn't know nor care about Jason ****ing Whitlock.

Playboy doesn't realize it. They are using him to boost their circulation by 40 percent.