This Eddie Johnson? No, THAT Eddie Johnson.

[KSigkid]

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2545984

This was just a case of sloppy journalism. How do you identify the wrong guy, especially when it's concerning something as serious as child molestation? At the papers where I worked, we had several levels of fact-checking before anything went to print.

[ADqtPiMel]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2545984

This was just a case of sloppy journalism. How do you identify the wrong guy, especially when it's concerning something as serious as child molestation? At the papers where I worked, we had several levels of fact-checking before anything went to print.

Yes.

Hopefully someone is getting fired as we speak.

[Lil' Hannah]

To borrow from a one Will Leitch (who seems to be pretty popular around here these days):

"Good rule of thumb: If the Eddie Johnson you're reading about is doing something bad, it's not the Eddie Johnson you're thinking of. Cool?"

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by ADqtPiMel

Yes.

Hopefully someone is getting fired as we speak.

I love the fact that Skip Bayless (already one of my least favorite sportswriters) was ranting and raving about it on ESPN, except he was talking about the WRONG GUY. He's a hack anyway, hopefully his employers are getting on his case about this one.

[valkyrie]

I'm sick of ESPN. Those MNF guys were TERRIBLE. If I want to hear people talk shit about everyone, I can do it myself. They talked shit about Robert Gallery, mentioned the sex boat scandal 100 times (old news, anyone?), talked shit about the Raiders coach, and talked shit about Brett M'fin Favre. I mean, he's not my favorite either, but whichever dude was sitting there saying that Green Bay should consider NOT letting him come back is JACKED. STFU. Plus, they were boring as hell. From now on, I'll get my fill of Sunday night football with John and Al, who at least are interesting. On Monday, I'll mute that shit and do the play-by-play myself. WTF.

[Kevin]

Have you ever considered ESPN to be a credible news organization?

ESPN does a better job creating news than it does at reporting it.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by ktsnake

Have you ever considered ESPN to be a credible news organization?

ESPN does a better job creating news than it does at reporting it.

You mean not everyone talking knows what they're talking about?

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by ktsnake

Have you ever considered ESPN to be a credible news organization?

ESPN does a better job creating news than it does at reporting it.

It wasn't always that way, and even now some of the reporters are solid with good backgrounds (Gammons, Bob Ley, Michael Wilbon, Dan Patrick, John Clayton, etc.). Over the years, though, the entertainment aspect has become more important, and they've put former athletes (Joe Morgan, John Kruk and Sterling Sharpe, for example) into news roles that don't fit them. I'm not sure what their viewership numbers are, but I think they may be losing more of the diehard sports fans, the people who know their stuff.

I'm hoping Tony Kornheiser does well on MNF, because he's a good sportswriter, is smart and really funny. However, I'm afraid it will end up another experiment gone wrong.

[Thrillhouse]

I may be a bit off base here but ESPN has to "create" news and entertainment and such to survive. People have many different ways to get scores and such from the games that they are interested in hearing about. The thought is, you can quick go online and find out who won the Detroit-Boston game and be done with it. The added personalities and "expert" analysis is something that is harder to find, therefore more people will stick around and watch shows like sportscenter. I tuned out ESPN long ago but as a business, thats how they look at it. To keep viewer interest, they have to provide something that you may not get everyday.