RayClay
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Reading Reiss' Sunday notes column only accentuates how pathetically lazy Ben Volin is. I saw someone's print edition of today's Globe and his notes column is 75% cut and paste data from the NFL guidebook.
Volin literally is working off of Cliff's Notes. it's one thing to earn the MCI label - he can't help being born simple-minded, but he is also lazy.
Reiss' work is first-person reporting, thorough and thought provoking.
Hopefully Bill Simmons or MMQB can hire him away from ESPN.
I'm seriously wondering if some form of SI or Sporting News, or new company can develop print and TV/other media company and lure the reporters who either left ESPN or are outside it, like Kirwan, Simmons, Reiss and othe decent ESPNers etc.
what I was thinking is a counter move to ESPN owning rights and the fees for actual sports by producing no live sports shows, just highlights, and fighting in court for the right to use minimal highlights and their own interviews and programs.
Light footprint, in other words, while cable goes down the drain and ESPN and others profitability with it.
How much of ESPN programming is actual games anyway? Not much.
A network with low overhead, not beholde, like ESPN and NFL.com are, with great production values, on air and print talent and hollywood ability to produce shows?