Blogs Are Ruining ESPN

• mmiracle

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  Funny she thinks espn "writes" stuff. Most of it is straight from the AP. Maybe she should try to drink and write, you know like all us bloggers do.

  Posted 10/2/2007 [reply] [flag]

• The Fantasy Sports Review

  +3

  As a journalism student, I hear complaints like this all the time.  But 'real' journalists like Schreiber just come of as jealous and threatened.  Sports blogs exist because people like to talk about sports, deal with it.

  Posted 10/2/2007 [reply] [flag]

• Redsauce

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  Shouldn't the world-wide leader in sports stay above the fray & ignore all the rumors that get thrown around?  Why not maintain your high standards of journalism?  It's not like you're losing viewership to people looking at blogs--you're losing viewers because you're crappy. 

  Instead they decide to continue the cycle & throw out vicious rumors of their own....real smart, fellas.

   

  Posted 10/3/2007 [reply] [flag]

• Jordi Scrubbings

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  This is a completely misleading title. To say blogs are ruining ESPN is to attract a reaction. Which the headline gets, no doubt. The problem is, like it or not, we (I include myself here) are all competing with ESPN, Fox Sports, Yahoo!, etc. We all would love to have every sports fan come to our site and read what we have to say. So obviously providing content becomes the rule, not facts. In the rush to post, we are filling the same role as those "slam dunk" analysts at the CIA - I don't care if it's right, just tell me something.

  However, sports blogs are a decendant of ESPN. Take away Simmons, take away the talking heads, take away the incessant jibber-jabber and the need to fill time, and would we still blog? Perhaps, or perhaps we just email our friends our opinions and leave it at that. If all we got was the local news at 7 telling us our team won would we care about anything else? Instead we have this uncontrollable media entity yapping at us, and we have a method to yap back.

   Would it be great if sports bloggers were like indymedia.org, being more or less eyewitness amateur reporters? Sure. It would be great if sports blogs dropped the Maxim-level writing and stuck with "Smith's curveball sucked today". But we can't be. To quote one of my fav rock bands, Clutch, the beast, you see, has 50 eyes. ESPN is everywhere.

  And finally, to Ms. Schreiber, a 2Pac quote, "We were given this world, we didn't make it." ESPN sets the standard. People in glass houses shouldn't throw rocks. 

  Posted 10/3/2007 [reply] [flag]

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Espn: We still like her, but it's clear the ESPN ...
Published 10/2/2007 by Leitch at Deadspin
... We still like her, but it's clear the ESPN ombudsman doesn't understand sports blogs at all. [Shakedown Sports] ...

And We Thought The Ombudsperson Was On Our Side
Published 10/2/2007 by Awful Announcing- at Awful Announcing
... Shakedown Sports points us to another fine example of how Mainstream Media has no idea what is going on in this Blogosphere, ESPN Ombudsman LeAnne Schreiber ...

We Are All To Blame
Published 10/4/2007 by Nugg Doctor at The Nugg Doctor
... (Boulder-CO) I happen to stumble on an article late last night that I just have to share with the rest of you. Apparently, Le Anne Schreiber, "The latest integrity filled journalist to take a crack at being ESPN’s ombudsman", is seemingly blaming blogs for ESPN’s inaccurate reporting. ...

BLOGS ARE DESTROYING ESPN
Published 10/6/2007 by DCScrap at EPIC CARNIVAL | SPORTS NEWS WITH A TWIST
... (Originally published 10/2) ...