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LARGE THE HEAD posted:The thing that gets to me about the Sarah Phillips story re: freelance work is that she had a "spotless" online reputation when she was hired. It is very risky to just go by the Internet when looking for online writers. Is there some other medium besides the internet that I'm not aware of that editors should be using to judge their online writers And it's pretty hard not to have a spotless online reputation without glaringly loving something up badly (Hi, Crossing Broad!). Hell I get described as a "surrealistic, postmodern baseball writer on Twitter" just because I retweet a guy calling himself weedhitler ten times a day
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# ? May 2, 2012 23:34 |
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URL Weaver posted:Is there some other medium besides the internet that I'm not aware of that editors should be using to judge their online writers So is "weedhitler" a guy who's really against weed, or a guy who loves Hitler and getting stoned?
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# ? May 2, 2012 23:36 |
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haljordan posted:So is "weedhitler" a guy who's really against weed, or a guy who loves Hitler and getting stoned? Please don't troll weedhitler; he is a very nice young man.
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# ? May 2, 2012 23:39 |
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Maybe weedhitler hates it when the Jews harsh his mellow.
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# ? May 2, 2012 23:42 |
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I like whoever runs the LA Kings Twitter:quote:LA Kings @LAKings
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# ? May 3, 2012 00:01 |
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I believe whoever did LA Kings' twitter posted smacktalk against all of Vancouver, too
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# ? May 3, 2012 00:11 |
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LA Kings twitter is like How To Make A Rad Team Twitter 101 no ad-libbin n***a just do like i do
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# ? May 3, 2012 00:20 |
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She also somewhat scammed EA Sports Consultants out of a chunk of money for advertising, but repaid them pretty quickly when requested. I guess they (Phillips and Prasad) didn't want the risk of an actual legit business taking them to court. They'll gently caress people who've got no recourse, but not an actual company.
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# ? May 3, 2012 00:22 |
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Henry Meowlins posted:She also somewhat scammed EA Sports Consultants out of a chunk of money for advertising, but repaid them pretty quickly when requested. I guess they (Phillips and Prasad) didn't want the risk of an actual legit business taking them to court. They'll gently caress people who've got no recourse, but not an actual company.
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# ? May 3, 2012 00:38 |
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AA posted a link to one of the @OhWonka guys' page that included a few emails between him and Phillips how she had Donald Trump Jr. as one of the investors for Sports Comedy Network, I guess. She also claimed to own part of ESPN Playbook?This whole story is so very bizarre. But I guess that's investigative meta-journalism for ya. Link: http://xavier.tumblr.com/post/22276408146
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# ? May 3, 2012 03:16 |
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Tae posted:Almost no sports media is actually good at sports. Excuse me. But. Not everyone is capable of writing columns like Dana O'Neil. It takes years and years of training, dedication , and experience.
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# ? May 3, 2012 04:00 |
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Came in for the Sarah Phillips thing--this is the first time I had heard of her or the controversy. Oh, ESPN.haljordan posted:Estimates peg it at $4.69 per subscriber per month. Yes, even back in 2005 when I interned for some cable MSOs ESPN was more than ~$2/sub/month. That's not all though--you had to get ESPN2, ABC Family, and something else all packaged together and this raised the cost closer to $3.50. That was 7 years ago; I have no doubt that the $4.69 is on track.
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# ? May 3, 2012 04:30 |
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haljordan posted:Estimates peg it at $4.69 per subscriber per month. How is this possible? USA gets slightly higher cable ratings than ESPN, yet is worth roughly one tenth as much?
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# ? May 3, 2012 06:12 |
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Meat Recital posted:How is this possible? USA gets slightly higher cable ratings than ESPN, yet is worth roughly one tenth as much? Disney is a big old bully.
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# ? May 3, 2012 06:15 |
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Meat Recital posted:How is this possible? USA gets slightly higher cable ratings than ESPN, yet is worth roughly one tenth as much? Because ESPN's advertising sales are through the roof, and keep going up the more sports move from OTA to basic cable.
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# ? May 3, 2012 06:18 |
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Meat Recital posted:How is this possible? USA gets slightly higher cable ratings than ESPN, yet is worth roughly one tenth as much? People get very, very angry if you take away their sports, and they'll switch providers if you try to take it away from them. They don't get as pissed if you take away White Collar. If I'm remembering Those Guys Have All The Fun correctly, it also has to do with how the initial deal with cable providers was set. There was some ridiculous escalator in the contract and the providers were under a lot of pressure to sign the deal.
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# ? May 3, 2012 06:18 |
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morestuff posted:People get very, very angry if you take away their sports, and they'll switch providers if you try to take it away from them. They don't get as pissed if you take away White Collar. I'd be interested to see how much cable subscriptions spiked when ESPN got the MNF contract. That's a loving American institution, and I guarantee enough people got pissed at ABC losing it that they got cable just to watch it. Admittedly, it may be a wash since NBC got SNF to fill the OTA primetime void. Benne fucked around with this message at 07:23 on May 3, 2012 |
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Anytime NBC Sports is mentioned I immediately think of this and it makes me smile. It's also 100 percent correct. TV contracts for sporting leagues/events are getting toward major bubble status. I bet they do increase over time but not by a hell of a lot. There's an upper bound here that will be reinforced by cable companies doing what they do screwing over their subscribers.
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# ? May 3, 2012 08:08 |
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Benne posted:I'd be interested to see how much cable subscriptions spiked when ESPN got the MNF contract. That's a loving American institution, and I guarantee enough people got pissed at ABC losing it that they got cable just to watch it. The total number of homes with cable has been on the decline since the beginning of the 08 recession. Granted, that decline is something like 99 million from 100 million, but still, there is one. Also, if anyone here hasn't read the Chipmunk article from Grantland, go do it.
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# ? May 3, 2012 08:20 |
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ESPN has a live chat going on with John Walsh, if that interests you at all.
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# ? May 3, 2012 15:46 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Anytime NBC Sports is mentioned I immediately think of this
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# ? May 3, 2012 15:53 |
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LARGE THE HEAD posted:Anytime NBC Sports is mentioned I immediately think of this and it makes me smile. It's also 100 percent correct. You know all Olympic stuff will now be streamed live without him at the helm? You do need a cable/satellite account but it's a hell of a step in the right direction. I'm sure if Ebersol was still head of NBC Sports all the big events would still be tape delayed to death. Also, speaking of Disney being bullies, look at what they did circa 2000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soapnet#2000.E2.80.9303 quote:By the time Soapnet first aired on January 20, 2000, the channel aired only current ABC soap operas in the evening and early morning, so that people who worked during the day could watch at their convenience; programming was inclusive, as the channel is owned by ABC. Soapnet has high cable coverage due to Disney's aggressive policy of pulling ABC-owned broadcast stations and the popular ESPN channels from cable companies if they wouldn't agree to carry Soapnet as well; this was the main reason for WABC-TV being pulled from Time Warner Cable's New York City system for two days in May 2000, when it was originally controlled by Time Warner.[4] And as of this year that channel doesn't even exist anymore. What nice foresight I'm sure moving the BCS games to ESPN is also a big culprit. And I know in the ESPN book it said Disney bought ABC mainly for ESPN's untapped potential. They knew the channel's value well.
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# ? May 3, 2012 16:01 |
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morestuff posted:ESPN has a live chat going on with John Walsh, if that interests you at all. I am not out to flambé anyone but those questions are incredibly soft. Not surprising because I'm sure the last thing the network wants is for Walsh to be blindsided, but then again it's not a sit-down interview and he could have a PR consultant and a lawyer sitting right there with him. Just an observation. edit: Then again it is ESPN essentially interviewing itself so it's even less surprising. swizz fucked around with this message at 17:07 on May 3, 2012 |
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ElwoodCuse posted:Because ESPN's advertising sales are through the roof, and keep going up the more sports move from OTA to basic cable. sports is also the only thing people don't DVR through, so the ad space is extremely important and lucrative.
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# ? May 3, 2012 23:54 |
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Courtesy of Craig Calcaterra's twitter, Phil Mushnick thought it was a good idea to write this:quote:As long as the Nets are allowing Jay-Z to call their marketing shots — what a shock that he chose black and white as the new team colors to stress, as the Nets explained, their new “urban” home — why not have him apply the full Jay-Z treatment? http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/double_standard_TFPqqilUHif01I9BKkQSkN/1 Zeeman fucked around with this message at 16:50 on May 4, 2012 |
# ? May 4, 2012 16:46 |
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I don't see Mushnick getting fired over this. He's been pretty consistent in his dislike of hip-hop culture for years now, often using the same kind of language. I enjoy Mushnick's columns, because he hates everyone and everything.
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# ? May 4, 2012 17:11 |
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Zeeman posted:Courtesy of Craig Calcaterra's twitter, Phil Mushnick thought it was a good idea to write this: This is the same newspaper that published this cartoon: Editorial integrity isn't exactly a strong suit of the Post.
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# ? May 4, 2012 17:37 |
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TL posted:I don't see Mushnick getting fired over this. He's been pretty consistent in his dislike of Edited for clarity.
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# ? May 4, 2012 18:55 |
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What are the odds his next column contains both, "its not fair that african americans get to use that word and rich old white men can't" and "I'm sorry if you were offended by my joke." 1 to 1000? 1 to 100000?
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:01 |
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Toffile posted:This is the same newspaper that published this cartoon: This isn't really a Post cartoon, right?
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:25 |
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It most certainly is.
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:27 |
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Bizob posted:What are the odds his next column contains both, "its not fair that african americans get to use that word and rich old white men can't" and "I'm sorry if you were offended by my joke." 1 to 1000? 1 to 100000? Phil Mushnick posted:Bob - Such obvious, wishful and ignorant mischaracterizations of what I write are common. I don't call black men the N-word; I don't regard young women as bitches and whores; I don't glorify the use of assault weapons and drugs. Jay-Z, on the other hand.....Is he the only NBA owner allowed to call black men N---ers?" Congratulations, you have won crippling depression
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:35 |
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Mornacale posted:Congratulations, you have won crippling depression Neat. Great column, great guy. Things I learned from Phil Mushnick: Jay-Z is the only NBA owner to have ever profited from something someone might consider morally objectionable.
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Mornacale posted:Is he the only NBA owner allowed to call black men N---ers? I'm pretty sure Donald Sterling would have a bone to pick with that article.
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:40 |
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Phil Mushnick posted:Is he the only NBA owner allowed to call black men N---ers? Michael Jordan still owns the Bobcats.
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# ? May 4, 2012 19:52 |
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I'd be manic depressive too if my name was Phil Mushnick. Even saying that name makes it sound terrible.
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# ? May 4, 2012 20:17 |
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I guess I shouldn't be shocked that he's still being paid to write stuff, but I honestly kinda am. Even by the appallingly low standards of New York tabloid sports that is unbelievably awful.
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# ? May 4, 2012 20:56 |
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So Nilish Prasad is basically the puppet master behind all of this, according to an update. He started dating Sarah when she was in junior high and he in high school. Here's an actual picture of the two of them from 2010 (source is deadspin) So even the pictures that she now says are "really her" are fake. I really doubt she has even been the primary author of anything at this point.
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Henry Meowlins posted:So Nilish Prasad is basically the puppet master behind all of this, according to an update. He started dating Sarah when she was in junior high and he in high school. Here's an actual picture of the two of them from 2010 (source is deadspin) This is getting more by the day.
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