A Twitter Dialogue With Dave (@EdgeOfSports) Zirin on the Crisis of Confidence at ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’
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August 26, 2013ESPN ombudsman Robert Lipsyte’s piece on the Frontline partnership crash-and-burn is disappointing. http://es.pn/17d5mMh (cont.)
(cont.) The estimable Lipsyte too equivocal and “fact-based” for own good. Story needs more of the flair of Liebling (and Lipsyte himself).
I’ll have my own piece on ESPN/PBS/NFL fallout @thenation tomorrow. Chock full of anon. quotes from ESPN journalists with whom I spoke.
@edgeofsports Sounds like the piece Lipsyte (who buried his lead) should have written. I look forward to reading.
@irvmuch I very much liked Lipsyte’s piece. Curious as to what lead you thought was buried.
@edgeofsports Grading on the curve, I liked Lipsyte’s too. But by his own high standards, too many pulled punches. The buried lead (cont.)
@edgeofsports (cont.) was a lot of who-shot-John over the decision not to dilute the ESPN “brand” — while OTL is exiled to graveyard slot.
@edgeofsports Dave, as you said so well yourself, the Frontline fiasco is sexier but less important in long run than de-exposure of OTL.