ESPN Ombud Finally Weighs in on Steve Phillips
1-liner, ESPN November 19th. 2009, 11:30amESPN Ombud Misses Overall Point: Finally, ESPN Ombudsman Don Ohlmeyer has reacted to the Steve Phillips morass. It is rambling and underwhelming. “A number of mailbag contributors questioned what steps ESPN was taking to ensure that a “Phillips situation” wouldn’t happen again. Others wanted to know whether a culture existed that allowed or even encouraged this type of behavior. ESPN has a responsibility to provide an atmosphere that’s conducive for effective, efficient and creative work.” That’s all he mentioned regarding the culture that has plagued the network this decade. It is buried in the 78th paragraph. Phillips is just the latest in a long line of alleged sex-capades at ESPN (Mike Tirico, Harold Reynolds, Woody Paige, Sean Salisbury, Jason Jackson, etc,). Le Anne Schreiber might be disappointed. [ESPN]
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November 19th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Your love affair with Le Anne Schreiber is becoming more apparent everyday TBL.
Agreed on this though: Ohlmeyer is just spewing the company line.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:39 am
A number of mailbag contributors questioned what steps ESPN was taking to ensure that a “Phillips situation” wouldn’t happen again.
People honestly want ESPN to tell them that a Big Wig won’t sleep with a fat intern ever again? These are probably the same people who think Sarah Palin would be a great President.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:45 am
amazing that bob ley still gets away with banging all the interns
November 19th, 2009 at 11:45 am
Duffy wrote it?
I kid, I kid.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:46 am
Well, we are talking about a guy who rooted for the World Series to end early so that it wouldn’t interfere with the NBC primetime lineup. And the guy who put Dennis Miller in the MNF booth. Are we really surprised that he just doesn’t get it?
/Le Anne Schrieber ruled
//hasn’t read the column since she left
November 19th, 2009 at 11:46 am
So who is scoring with the hottest intern at ESPN? I’d put my money on Keyshawn.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:47 am
I tried to read that thing by Ohlmeyer this morning. It hurt my head. It was a stream of consciousness brainstorming session, designed to create soundbites.
Le Anne Schreiber was pretty kickass. That first guy was ineffectual and it hurt his feelings (solomon), Schreiber may have been ultimately ineffectual, but she was awesome. Ohlmeyer so far is awful, at least to read.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:47 am
Duffy wrote it?
I kid, I kid.
Nah, not enough odd syntax caused by overuse of big words.
/I too kid.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Mav- I’m gonna go with john anderson. something about that guy just screams lady killer.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Well, we are talking about a guy who rooted for the World Series to end early so that it wouldn’t interfere with the NBC primetime lineup. And the guy who put Dennis Miller in the MNF booth. Are we really surprised that he just doesn’t get it?
I think he does get it but just doesn’t care. Ohlmeyer probably banged a few interns of his own back in the day.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:49 am
it’s b/c he’ll kill their pets if they say a word about it and he only bangs the hot ones.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:51 am
Nah, not enough odd syntax caused by overuse of big words.
you mean idiosyncratic sentence structure occasioned via the belaboring of ponderous prose?
November 19th, 2009 at 11:52 am
Still not sure what the ombudsman has to do with the culture of the network. Sounds like an HR problem. I’m pretty sure he’s supposed to answer reader complaints about the content.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:52 am
November 19th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Thanks Bulldog.
/someone had to do it.
November 19th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Doesn’t say anything about whether it’s the content and/or the culture.
/jmorris
November 19th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
(sends Ohlmeyer an email complaining about the ESPN cafeteria stopping Sloppy Joe Thursdays)
November 19th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
you mean idiosyncratic sentence structure occasioned via the belaboring of ponderous prose?
+an aggregated assemblage of points.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:24 pm
TBL, it’s clear that Ohlmeyer is worthless, so he should either be ignored or (my preference) whenever he has a new column just add a one liner with the sentence “ESPN releases press release indicating ESPN is good” and link the article. That should be enough.
November 19th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
this bspn ombudsman gig is a sham to begin with. the position holds minimal to zero authority or imput. it’s pretty much for show.
soloman basically mailed it in, glossing over most everything.
schreiber actually took the gig seriously and i think she rattled enough cages that the disney mice decided the next ombudsman was not going to rock the boat.
“if you whistle while you work, da… da… da… da… da-da-da… “
November 19th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
ESPN should be more embarrassed they have Don Ohlmeyer as ombudsman that their hostile work environment – and that should no way be read as minimizing the unprofessional workplace that is ESPN. That company is a mess.