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Thursday, November 10, 2011
ESPN Ombudsman heavily criticizes ESPN
Here you go:
To be sure, college football recruiting is a topic of vast interest to a fair-sized audience, and there’s certainly a story there at some point. But coming when it did, Rittenberg’s post wound up looking myopic and trivial. Readers pounced in the comments. “10-year-olds anally raped? Quick, what are the recruiting implications?” asked one commenter, while another advised, “Leave your Bristol bubble and rejoin the human race.”
We often marvel at the anonymous vitriol of web comments sections, but in this case the mob was right to take up its virtual torches and pitchforks.
By Tuesday, we expected ESPN to find its footing, but that didn’t happen.
I love ombudsmen, who somehow are paid by the people who they are criticizing publicly. Hopefully, their 18-month mandate is going to be renewed, if they continue to be this honest.
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