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complete breakdown of a part of the editorial process
āA partā?!?!?! So, Iām guessing this statement itself represents a breakdown of yet another part of what seems to be the highly compartmentalized editorial process at the ānewā, but yet tiresomely old, media site?
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At least this wasnāt a non-apology-apology. On the other hand, why does the editorial director still have his job?
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So, apparently he raped those women because he was a frustrated jock, and picked up some bad ideas from going native with the melanin-enhanced underclass. Coulda happened to anybody.
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Ah yes, Iām sure thereās going to be a zero-tolerance policy, a rigorous internal investigation of how this happened, a pledge to fix such problems and something about values and ethics.
Did I forget something from the template?
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This is what happens when youāre hiring fresh 20-somethings because itās cheaper to do so.
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When the desire for clickbait revenue outstrips your editorial capability (or integrity)ā¦
This is what happens when you let the hometown sports hack write a longform piece with f*ck-all appreciation of the gravity of the crime, carrying all the hometown tropes along for the ride. Deadspin nailed itā¦ and the last paragraph from that piece of dreck says it allā¦
Pending an improbable successful appeal, everything he had worked for was now gone, likely never to be recovered, ever again. Recovery, if there is any, appears to be something deserved only by the victims of a man whose belief in his innocence will apparently be, like the way he once pursued his dream of playing in the NFL, unrelenting, despite all evidence to the contrary.
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Putting aside for one moment the fact that the piece was awful, it must suck to wake up to find that the 12,000-word piece youād written got yanked after a day, and your publisher called it a failure. And I feel mad when a 30-word comment gets deleted from a blog. Ouch.
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Frustratingly I actually think CTE should be looked at as one possible factor in crime, the same way we understand lead poising to be now.
This article however is a pile of shit that just looked to excuse the guy and hopefully wonāt cause such a backlash that investigating the links between CTE and crime will be shunned.
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This is what happens when SB Nation attempts to write something that isnāt about LeBron James or Tiger Woods.
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Isnāt SB Nation Kosās baby? Maybe notā¦
Holtzclaw is caucAsianā¦so is easier to convict him rather than a caucasian cop.
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End result of the deification of sports figures. Site should be renamed āAl Bundy Nation - A Site to remember the glory days of scoring 4 touchdowns in a single gameā
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Wow. I didnāt read the article, and had chalked it up to a severe case of man-crush. But, that writingā¦it tops even the transcript of a Sarah Palin speech.
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āWho is Daniel Holtzclaw?ā
Holtzclaw is an ex-police officer who was found guilty of six counts of sexual battery, three counts of lewd exhibition, four counts of forcible oral sodomy, four counts of rape in the first degree, and one count of rape in the second degree.
For his 13 victimsāall of them black women, many of them poorāas well as the people who believe their stories, justice was served.
Daniel Holtzclaw is a convicted serial rapist.
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I think at one point it was connected with Kos, but itās now part of Vox Media.
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āThere were objections by senior editorial staff that went unheeded. It
was tone-deaf, insensitive to the victims of sexual assault and rape,
and wrongheaded in approach and execution. There is no qualification: it
was a complete failure.ā
The opposite of Iām-sorry-if-you-were-offended non-pology. Take note, future miscreants.
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āWrongheadedā? Iād say. Nobody gives a shit about this animal; he is locked up forever and that is all anybody needs to know. Where is the in depth profile of how each of his victims is coping with their trauma?
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its SB Nationā¦
That moment might come soon (via Vox), but its SB Nation.
Jeb!: Beautiful America!!!
