OT: Mike Reiss' espn blog

shmessy said:

His blog site is:

http://www.mikereiss.net/

The ESPNBoston site is not his blog site. He lost control of the ESPN Boston one over a year ago.

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farn said:

I have to agree with those suggesting Reiss can't be happy with some of the developments in recent times. On one hand, he most likely gets decently compensated, he is visible on TV, and can follow what is most likely his dream job. However, past comments he's made have been clear : he didn't like his blog getting inundated with extra BS, and his .net blog recently sent the message he was disenchanted with how the deflate story got covered. Further, a peek on his Twitter account is also telling. He writes of being too busy following the team when pressed about the ugly new site.

I don't like it. But matters of taste fluctuate from one to another, obv...

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I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about it on many levels – the ferocity in which news spread, the venom with which some opinion was delivered, the obvious agendas of some and how those were promoted, the nastiness of Twitter at times — and in a moment of reflection this is a thought that is important for me to share:

There was a time when a reader could go to a certain place on the Web and know they were getting my take on the Patriots. The name of the blog actually included my last name, which further reinforced the personal aspect of it.

That personal feel (without the name) continued for a short period of time during a time of professional transition in 2009, but it’s important to me that followers know that has no longer been the case for a few years now. (emphasis mine).

My work now appears as part of a more general feed that pulls in stories and opinions (some that trend quite negative) from various sources within the company.

I would say that I’m still the primary driver of the space, with my work probably consisting of anywhere between 50-to-75 percent of what is on the feed, depending on the time of year. But at a time like this, when the Patriots are in a Super Bowl, the number drops a bit and there is an influx of voices.

Any writer wants to be judged on their own work, and with that in mind, these are the three reaction/analysis pieces I wrote over the last week when it came to the Patriots and underinflated footballs.

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makoute said:

I think you guys are just trying to find reasons to pile on, the site looks fine.

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convertedpatsfan said:

I disagree.

When I go to a bookmark for a New England Patriots blog, why do I have to see tennis scores and NHL scores? I don't give a flying **** about those things but all sports scores now stream at the top of every football story except the main NFL page.

And I'm sure it was a tagging error, but what the hell is a Yasiel Puig story doing in the Patriots feed this morning?

The mobile site has auto played videos several times on me now, awkward when I'm in browsing in an elevator.

So I don't think it's just hating change for the sake of hating change. It's a shift in how they present content, and for football fans, it kinda sucks.

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jmt57 said:

A cheap look (think early days of Bleacher Report) with lots of big photos and videos that has the appearnce that the target audience has the reading comprehension of a ten year old.

A format that sends me away from what I was looking for (Patriots' news) to a general sports feed if I click on one certain columns.

A site that autoplays videos with sound, that is extremely slow to load even on a relatively new (less than one year old) electronic device.

As much as I have enjoyed reading Reiss since his first days at the Globe, going forward I am going to have to limit my non-PatsFans.com Patriots' news reading will be pretty much limited to Christopher Price at weei.com and Tom Curran at csnne.com. At least we are fortunate to have some very good alternatives; the same is not true in all NFL markets.

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patfanken said:

This couldn't be more on point, JM. ESPN has proven, with few exceptions, to be a corrupt, morally bankrupt sports news gathering organization whose main focus is NEITHER on sports or gathering news. Their object is the CREATION of news, issues and above all clicks. If the truth or integrity suffers in the process, so be it, they don't really care. It is a shame that Reiss is going down with the ship. But like you said, Pats fans still have a few decent alternatives from Curran and Price all year and Guys like Chatham and Brown during the season.

BTW- I took 2 trip tos the ESPN Boston site recently and came away disappointed on ALL fronts. Anyone else notice that if your curser even breathes on an add, it will open it. I don't know if you can program that into site, but I don't think you can go to that site anymore WITHOUT opening up at least one add.

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