Key tweets, and it's all gone to Hell.

[hank970]

He's a BCU troll.

Busted... except I have no affiliation, past or present, with BCU.

 

[ZooCougar]

Yes, I think FCS is a clownshow if those programs think they're the big time. Its a larp.

A G5 tournament is a freaking larp.

What a strange take

I guess the Pop Tarts bowl is really the pinnacle

 

[jostar1]

 

[jostar1]

 

[Ha Who]

ESPN reporting on realignment would be like if the Wall Street Journal owned the New York Stock Exchange and reported on it

 

[JohnFSilver]

It's funny how we kept on warning of the split, the consolidation and everyone kept on saying it will never happen. Then it happened. And people don't know it happened.

 

[EdgewoodNHV]

ESPN reporting on realignment would be like if the Wall Street Journal owned the New York Stock Exchange and reported on it

Tbf the journalists who work for ESPN and the executives who directly profit from conference realignment are not the same people and probably do not share the same values

 

[ZooCougar]

The networks effectively run college football now.

 

[Kolumbo]

Tbf the journalists who work for ESPN and the executives who directly profit from conference realignment are not the same people and probably do not share the same values

But the journalists want to keep their jobs so.....I don't expect any honest reporting from them. Unless they are saying this is primarily espn's fault.

 

[Ha Who]

Tbf the journalists who work for ESPN and the executives who directly profit from conference realignment are not the same people and probably do not share the same values

The same could be said for Wall Street Journal reporters and News Corp executives.

 

[JohnFSilver]

But the journalists want to keep their jobs so.....I don't expect any honest reporting from them. Unless they are saying this is primarily espn's fault.

Journalists at espn on talent contracts. Corp has no control over them.

They don’t kiss up to c suite, at all. Journalists are so different than normal employees. They are the product. They could care less what management thinks .

 

[Kolumbo]

Journalists at espn on talent contracts. Corp has no control over them.

They don’t kiss up to c suite, at all. Journalists are so different than normal employees. They are the product. They could care less what management thinks .

So who decides what is actually published under the espn brand? Not the journalists.

 

[huskymedic]

Assisted <<<

-> … And so these latest rumors went racing down social media channels to the delight or frustration or general curiosity of a fan base. Discussions on Tuesday and Wednesday with numerous people in and around the UConn athletic operation yielded nothing substantially new on the topic, reaction ranging from “haven’t heard a thing” to “it’s all a continuation” and “nothing has changed.”

A lot more with-in the article ^^

 

[JohnFSilver]

So who decides what is actually published under the espn brand? Not the journalists.

Umm. The journalists do. C suite has almost no role in day to day operations. They can come in last second to kill a story, but that comes at a great cost to the leaders credibility.

The day to day, the SVPs stay away.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Journalists at espn on talent contracts. Corp has no control over them.

They don’t kiss up to c suite, at all. Journalists are so different than normal employees. They are the product. They could care less what management thinks .

I've never heard that point of view from any journalist. They care, some more than others; oftentimes depending on their circumstance.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Umm. The journalists do. C suite has almost no role in day to day operations. They can come in last second to kill a story, but that comes at a great cost to the leaders credibility.

The day to day, the SVPs stay away.

Sr Editors/Executive Editors decide what is assigned to writers and what is ultimately published. Corporate leadership exerts "guidance" to the Sr Editors/Executive Editors. To say journalists decide what is written is just not accurate.

 

[Buffett10]

I've never heard that point of view from any journalist. They care, some more than others; oftentimes depending on their circumstance.

Did Schefter care when he posted pics of Pierre-Paul’s x-Ray?

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

Did Schefter care when he posted pics of Pierre-Paul’s x-Ray?

I don't know - why don't you ask him.

 

[ZooCougar]

Assisted <<<

-> … And so these latest rumors went racing down social media channels to the delight or frustration or general curiosity of a fan base. Discussions on Tuesday and Wednesday with numerous people in and around the UConn athletic operation yielded nothing substantially new on the topic, reaction ranging from “haven’t heard a thing” to “it’s all a continuation” and “nothing has changed.”

A lot more with-in the article ^^

Why do we still find Jennifer Aniston attractive? Give me a break horde.

 

[JohnFSilver]

Sr Editors/Executive Editors decide what is assigned to writers and what is ultimately published. Corporate leadership exerts "guidance" to the Sr Editors/Executive Editors. To say journalists decide what is written is just not accurate.

That’s not what happens at all.

That seems like a very corporate structure. Journalists brings stories to the editors. Editors help frame, refine it, then push to get it elevated in the publication.

Just go to a budget meeting at any local newspaper. Editor in conjunction with writer decide what to write and how to write it .

Like, my editor at the old JI would say - go cover the game.

When a player got arrested, it was John, we having a story on that? Not, go do a story.

 

[CTFAN4LIFE]

That’s not what happens at all.

Ok, you have seen what you have seen and I have seen what I have seen (a handful of big news media companies).

 

[JohnFSilver]

Ok, you have seen what you have seen and I have seen what I have seen (a handful of big news media companies).

Maybe sports is different. But Woj don’t give a xrao about what Jimmy Pitaro thinks. Pitaro got no role in day to day.

And I have worked at the biggest one and gone to those meetings before. It’s more of “Thamel, what you working on?”

hell, some writers are downright hostile to the editors and management.

 

[Kolumbo]

That’s not what happens at all.

That seems like a very corporate structure. Journalists brings stories to the editors. Editors help frame, refine it, then push to get it elevated in the publication.

Just go to a budget meeting at any local newspaper. Editor in conjunction with writer decide what to write and how to write it .

Like, my editor at the old JI would say - go cover the game.

When a player got arrested, it was John, we having a story on that? Not, go do a story.

espn is in the entertainment business, not the news business. I am pretty sure all stories are spun to espn's liking. Or the authors get canned.

 

[JohnFSilver]

espn is in the entertainment business, not the news business. I am pretty sure all stories are spun to espn's liking. Or the authors get canned.

No that isn’t it. Lol.

 

[Ha Who]

espn is in the entertainment business, not the news business. I am pretty sure all stories are spun to espn's liking. Or the authors get canned.

Just like the “news”