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Christ Pseudoscientist posted:And I stopped reading at that point. It boggles my mind that Florio and PFT have somehow become a respected institution in the football media world. I am hoping that this is a work of satire that is over my reading comprehension levels. He is unequivocally a bad writer. Just makes stupid mistakes constantly and shows absolutely no grasp of basic newsgathering or storytelling techniques I'm teaching an undergrad class while I'm doing my master's and I see the same mistakes in their work that I do in his. It's totally unacceptable that he gets paid MILLIONS OF DOLLARS for absolute poo poo
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Look at that first loving sentence. Revel in its glory a million clauses per second
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AKMoose posted:As a former reporter, I am having trouble understanding what King's point is supposed to be. Reporters serve the public, not their sources. There was nothing surreptitious, illegal, or unethical about a documentary filmmaker releasing footage of statements made in his presence. I also get a kick out of how he passes judgment on a contract he admits he's never seen. What a dolt. As a current reporter it can be explained by complacency. Peter king - whom I never read until I started posting here - is the epitome of a lazy reporter who's interested only in the status quo, in every way. Can he use unparalleled access to write about dumb bullshit like his hotel coffee? you loving bet he will. He's the old, fat, useless columnist who coasts on relevance he never earned. maybe i'm projecting too much, but gently caress peter king
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Sash! posted:I remember, like, 20 years ago us moron kids joking about how Hoge was one more head injury away from dying on the field. Brain injuries are a terrible thing and gently caress Peter king for not standing up for former players. gently caress that fat rear end in a top hat
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May 11, 2012 06:39
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All the chambly beers own, I didn't know you could get them outside Quebec/eastern Ontario
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Great, consistent writing usually involve great editors - gonad and ham can maybe back me up on this. The problem with Peter king and magary's recent deadspin stuff is that neither of them are edited much, if at all. A good editor can trim fat and help a writer focus their ideas - two things which king entirely lacks. A ton of columnists get huge heads about their own writing and can get all pissy when something is changed. I was responsible for changing the tense in a sentence in a national columnist's work and he was actively hostile to me for a week - and he wrote it wrong. Complacency is terrible in every industry and for every professional. Peter King is the perfect example, as is the difference between drew's web stuff and his GQ pieces. Just because you have a clear, defined voice doesn't mean you don't need a swift kick in the rear end every so often
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May 25, 2012 22:33
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They just started not one but two sports channels!
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May 26, 2012 00:33
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I can't send press releases but if you want the inside scoop on lurid Canadian sex crimes I cover that
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There's no excuse for not having editors, though - I worked at a wire service where speed = money in the most direct sense and we just had really good, really fast editors. Florio pisses me off so much because he's a bad reporter and a bad writer. Peter King has the tools to be great at both - his problem is self-indulgence, not talent. Florio is just sort of a not-very-bright guy who lucked into a prominent position. Terry Bradshaw Expressway indeed
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Also my girlfriend is a bilingual editor/proofreader for the main publication of the canadian government. So she writes, translates, and edits stuff in both official languages, much of which was written by random public servants with a) no writing training whatsoever b) little skill in their second language and c) a vested interest in obfuscating the real meaning of the law/regulation/proposal. I do not envy her job.
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Yo, all the time I've wasted becoming a really good reporter is loving worthless if BleacherReport is worth $175 million
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Aug 6, 2012 21:05
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Seriously I got into this game for the money.
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Aug 7, 2012 00:34
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One hundred and eighty million American dollars for zero-content slideshows
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I know that, and I do. Whenever you google anything sports-related BR is in the top 5 results, every time. Pandering is a successful formula - and always has been.
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Aug 8, 2012 02:55
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Armond White said Big Momma's House 2 was a deep exploration of the role of the modern African-American woman in society
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Pretty much yeah
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Rap posted:In sports journalism, this will probably be true for a while, maybe gradually replaced by accurate scoops. But what kind of enterprise stories can you really come across in sports? Besides managing to uncover something huge like "Bill Belicheck privately admits he prefers white players" there isn't much enterprise to be had.
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Grozz Nuy posted:This, but unironically. Rice caught a ton of his yards in blowout wins, roughly 700 of them according to some thing I read. Calvin owns
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DJExile posted:Crossposting a great story Deadspin's "The Stacks" sub-page found about how former QB Ken Stabler planted coke on a beat writer This is awesome. There used to be a clip on Youtube from one of the Super Bowl documentaries that was just called "Raiders football" and it was all about how deliciously evil they were "I think half our team was on work-release just to play." RIP Kenny
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