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| Deadspin writer mad at PUNTER by Johnny Fivedicks 12/17/2022, 2:13pm PST | ||||
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| This is a bad article, Sean Beckwith.
I originally saw it on mobile. I had to close three ads before I could see a single line of text for the article. Three! And there are two ads every paragraph on mobile. Unreadable. So right here, before I get to his jealous rant, don't forget that you can at least see what punter Pat MacAfee is trying to convey when he tries to convey things. This is not (totally) a hit piece on Pat McAfee. It’s more about how we should categorize what McAfee does, because The Athletic — you know that sports site owned by The New York Times — named him its Sports Media Person of the Year, and that implies that he’s a journalist. No it doesn't. However, McAfee is just as much a journalist as he was a football player. Punters and kickers are people, too, yet when Jay Feeley calls a game the only time I value what he says is when it relates to the kicking game. The same logic applies to McAfee. Jesus. Unless he’s losing his shit over a punter, the rest of what he says — while informed — should be treated as entertainment. He had one groundbreaking moment this year, which I’ll get to, and the way it was handled was not in any class I took. (I have a communications news editorial degree, which is half the reason for this rant.) The funny thing is that this guy would have fit in perfectly at old Deadspin, which was largely made up of libtards that got angry all the time at the wrong things. This is the most Deadspin article since Deadspin died and was sold and came back. The rest of it is pretty bad and the thing to remember is that the original Deadspin writers think everyone writing there now is a scab. |
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Deadspin writer mad at PUNTER by 12/17/2022, 2:13pm PST  |
