Comments on: How Come Sports Websites Aren’t Hiring Minority Writers?

By: MODI

MODI — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 18:04:56 +0000

First off, thank you to TBL for this very important post… This statistical “college degree analysis” is pure nonsense. Has anyone actually ever READ a daily column lately? Victor’s list of Mariotti, Woody Paige, and Lupica as some of our most well-compensated journalists should clearly speak for itself. All this talk does is stop us from honestly addressing some serious institutional biases in sports journalism.

MCBias mentions D-Wil. I would argue that strictly from a competency point of view, D-Wil could run circles around 95% of all existing mainstream writers. Unlike most he actually often has a DIFFERENT opinion. His bigger crime of course. It is broken down right here:

The Willie Mays of Sports Writing: The 5 Tools of D.K. Wilson and Sports Writing’s Color Barrier http://www.cosellout.com/?p=207

For all you black, brown, and even white high school drop outs who will never land a sports journalism gig, it is suggested that you scroll directly down to “Part III” which cites this TBL article and deals directly with racial discrimination in the larger sports journalism. For all you college-degree-having-folks, you should have no problem digesting the full 3500 words…

By: victordamone

victordamone — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:55:12 +0000

Tyduffy,

while you’re at it add Jay Mariotti, Woody Paige and Mike Lupica to that list.

By: David B

David B — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:47:43 +0000

Mike NYC is stating the obvious yet is being labeled as a racist? There is a large element of black culture that discourages education, unfortunately. As a result, there is a significantly smaller pool of black people who are qualified to write for a major publication. Didn’t Whitlock write a story a couple years ago addressing this exact issue? He must be a racist, too.

By: tyduffy

tyduffy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:48:14 +0000

Internet writing is in need of a Larry Whiteside.

If we are going to spout random examples to explain why a whole group of people should not have been hired, can we use Skip Bayless as an example to get cranky White Men over the Age of 50 removed from ESPN?

By: broseph

broseph — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:40:05 +0000

Man, they don’t have any Internets in the ghetto. Now get me some cheez doodles.
- political commentary provided by Stephen A. Smith

By: curtwthomas23

curtwthomas23 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:33:28 +0000

with the exception of jason whitlock, jeff goodman, ken rosenthal, and mike harmon, foxsports.com is almost unreadable. the site is just as hard to navigate as it was before they remodeled it about a year ago, and the fact that jay mohr even has a column indicates to me that a bunch of dolts are in charge.

By: wilhelmreems

wilhelmreems — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:19:09 +0000

obviously the issue isn’t simply about the hiring process these national outlets use when filling a position. If we were a society with the right priorities, we wouldn’t have these problems.

Instead of congress having a hearing on the state of health care, education, the failing dollar and racial equality, we have a televised deposition on steroids in baseball.

Lots of people think our government has their priorities out of whack, but they’re only doing what the general public seems interested in. Why are there daily articles on Britney Spears on MSNBC.com, and ESPN leads with a story about Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo?

Sometimes I really think Mike Judge was right with “Idiocracy”, it doesn’t seem that far of a stretch.

By: victordamone

victordamone — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:18:57 +0000

Victor I would rather see taxpayer money go to underfunded schools than to stadiums any day of the week. You will get no argument from me there.

A good look.

By: gethro

gethro — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:16:47 +0000

As is the case for most things in life, “The Wire” answers even our most complicated questions about racial and cultural issues. We should all just agree to watch this show and be enlightened by its multi-layered message.

Love,
Stringer Bell

By: h8r

h8r — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:05:12 +0000

I hope there will be some money left over to help me with my reading comprehension problem.