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Awful Announcing And The Ombudsman: An Email Exchange
Awful Announcing And The Ombudsman: An Email Exchange
AA took issue with ESPN's Ombudsmen Le Anne Schreiber's recent comments about blogs, and Schreiber responds.
4 Comments
  • Redsauce Redsauce
    +1
    Good response from Schreiber, got to respect her for owning up & explaining her comments. 
    Posted 10/3/2007 respond (flag)
    • Jordi Scrubbings Jordi Scrubbings
      +1

      Owning up would infer she did something wrong, which she didn't. Unless you consider holding people's feet to the fire and doing her job as a wrong.

      Posted 10/3/2007 respond (flag)
      • Redsauce Redsauce
        +1
        "Owning up" actually just infers that she takes ownership of her comments, that she didn't say it was take out of context our some other such dodge that people use.
        Posted 10/4/2007 respond (flag)
  • mmiracle mmiracle
    +1
    I've read some of her stuff, it's pretty good. Better than the talking heads at that stale network.
    Posted 10/8/2007 respond (flag)
Blog Reactions

Wednesday links of fire
100% Injury Rate — ... AA's email exchange with the ESPN Ombuds(wo)man. [Awful Announcing] ...

A Clarification from the ESPN Ombudsman
Tar Heel FanAwful Announcing emailed the ESPN Ombudsman Le Anne Schreiber concerning her ...

Wide World of Blog
We Suck at Sports — ... Is someone really accusing blogs of at the same time being worthless, and having an effect on how ESPN reports their news? I thought blogs were just an annoying pimple on the ass of mainstream media. Apparently they're more like Drew Brees's birthmark... to him. [Awful Announcing] ...

Morning Paper: Bus Selling Car
Larry Brown Sports — ... AA had an exchange with ESPN about blogs [Awful Announcing] ...

Bad Information on NFL Injuries
FanHouse — ... I think it has more to do with something ESPN's ombudsman said to Awful Announcing this week: ESPN is desperate to break news and be first, and that's hard to do without relying on information that in the past would have been brushed off as "just a rumor." I don't have a problem with passing along rumors as long as they're clearly labeled as such, but I do think injuries are complicated, and ESPN and other media outlets would be wise to run their reporting by an expert in sports medicine before going on the air with them. That would probably require more time and lessen ESPN's chances of being first. But it would also lessen ESPN's chances of being wrong. ...

Old Media v. Blogs
The Indy Sports Blog — ... http://awfulannouncing.blogspot.com/2007/10/aa-and-ombudsman-email-exchange.html ...

Saturday Salute To Bloggers
SOX & Dawgs — ... Brian from Awful Announcing had the pleasure of an email exchange with the ombusman from ESPN. ...

FanHouse: Mon AM 'Isiah's Conspiracy Theory' Edition
John Clifford Ness — ... : I think it has more to do with something ESPN's ombudsman said to Awful Announcing this week: ESPN is desperate to break news and be first, and that's hard to do without relying on information that in the past would have been brushed off as "just a rumor." ...

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