Comments on: ESPN: We had the Manti Te’o story before Deadspin published their post

By: besser tot als rot

besser tot als rot — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:37:53 +0000

What story?

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:26:07 +0000

The phrase that pays here is “who had initially been put onto the story by Tom Condon, Te’o’s agent.” No wonder some at ESPN didn’t think they had it nailed down; they were being handed yet more Te’o spin — much like his sitdown with Couric, whose PR flack now also counts Te’o as a client.

By: kit dinker

kit dinker — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:19:04 +0000

ESPN – The MTV of sports.

By: Steve Eggleston

Steve Eggleston — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:13:57 +0000

“…but because we want to subsume Notre Dame football into our college sports TV empire, we held off.”

By: D-fusit

D-fusit — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:09:51 +0000

ESPN hid from this because they were afraid if it was not true they would piss-off Notre Dame and all their alumni and fans. Wussies.

By: Flange

Flange — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:07:22 +0000

ESPN didn’t want to run stories about fake girlfriends lest someone compare it to obozo and Julia. As for having standards, where were they when they ran stories about her death? That’s right, they have no standards.

By: jake-the-goose

jake-the-goose — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:06:27 +0000

ESPN is so lost in being politically correct – they cannot see the world in front of their face.

ESPN is killing sports – and they don’t even realize it.

By: Doomberg

Doomberg — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:04:11 +0000

I think ESPN did the right thing, frankly. If Deadspin had gotten significant details of the story wrong, there would have been major egg on their faces. Deadspin got lucky here and I’m not at all impressed with the editor’s response in this case. I’ve seen way too many “journalists” publish damaging articles about Republicans that were quietly retracted later.

Kudos to ESPN for having some standards in this case.

By: Resist We Much

Resist We Much — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 22:02:22 +0000

Words last heard by Newsweek.

“We had the Lewinsky story, decided to sit on it, and Matt Drudge became a superstar.”

Deadspin, the new Matt Drudge of sports?