ESPN Should Have Boundaries? Billy Packer’s Getting into the Internet Game? What Planet is This?
ESPN, Media Gossip/Musings July 15th. 2008, 11:20am
Not sure which we got a bigger kick out of this morning: ESPN’s ombudsman, Le Anne Schreiber, suggesting that ESPN perhaps get some written standards (and boundaries) in place for all of their writers and talking heads, or Billy Packer, the man who doesn’t use email or own a computer, considering getting into the website game. Are you laughing, too?
Other interesting takes on Packer’s departure: Newsday and USA Today, mostly because they got the old man on the phone.
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July 15th, 2008 at 11:26 am
Bill Packer doesn’t got to the internets; he makes the internets come to him.
July 15th, 2008 at 11:50 am
See, this woman gets it. The problem at ESPN (and I’m thinking of ESPN Radio specifically here) is that they pay stupid people (or they pay people to pretend that they’re stupid) to say stupid things. Two days after Kornheiser left I left with him (that was enough Cowherd for me), and until they bring some semblance of a soul back to the air, I’ll only be going back when there’s absolutely nothing else to listen to (read: every time NPR does another piece on some sort of cancer that is ultimately going to kill me).
July 15th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I’m pretty stunned ESPN didn’t already have a written policy. Hell, my college newspaper had one of these. No wonder the WWL screws up on issues relating to journalistic integrity so often for such a gigantic organization.