On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Joe Hass <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The better analogy for my money is Rick Reilly, who wrote one of the > greatest pieces of journalism with his Marge Schott profile in SI in > 1996 (I remember reading it over and over again when I got that issue, > just because it flowed so incredibly well). He's a parody of himself > now, a columnist at ESPN.com that steals material from himself and > repeats it. I think Reilly is mostly dreadful but last week's ESPN column was surprisingly entertaining: http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=5519248 As for Alessandra Stanley, how she is working for any paper - let alone the "paper of record" - after that Walter Cronkite obituary is beyond me. Though it did lead to the best Public Editor column the Times ever had: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/02/opinion/02pubed.html TVG -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
