-if you didn't catch this over the weekend, you really need to read the article and then read about the article. Fascinating, yet ultimately, sad, tragic piece of journalism, on many levels.
here's the original piece from Grantland (subdivision of ESPN) that got everything going:
http://grantland.com/features/a-mysterious-physicist-golf-club-dr-v/
Think Progress asks the questions many of us are thinking (and then some) after reading the original :
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2014/01/19/3183711/grantland/
this piece analyzes the article (and the context, the journalism, the lack of awareness)--pretty spot on deconstruction.
http://mariadahvanaheadley.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/sinatras-cold-is-contagious-hostile-subjects-vulnerable-sources-the-ethics-of-outing/
another piece takes the author and Grantland to task for the shoddiness:
http://deadspin.com/how-grantland-screwed-up-the-story-of-essay-anne-vander-1505368906
*see above
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/01/essay_anne_vanderbilt_dr_v_s_magical_putter_grantland_s_expos_of_a_trans.html
from Christina Karl (much credibility on the subject):
http://grantland.com/features/what-grantland-got-wrong/
Lastly, from Bill Simmons, creator/editor of Grantland, who candidly addresses the failures of journalism with this article:
http://grantland.com/features/the-dr-v-story-a-letter-from-the-editor/
here's the original piece from Grantland (subdivision of ESPN) that got everything going:
http://grantland.com/features/a-mysterious-physicist-golf-club-dr-v/
Think Progress asks the questions many of us are thinking (and then some) after reading the original :
http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2014/01/19/3183711/grantland/
this piece analyzes the article (and the context, the journalism, the lack of awareness)--pretty spot on deconstruction.
http://mariadahvanaheadley.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/sinatras-cold-is-contagious-hostile-subjects-vulnerable-sources-the-ethics-of-outing/
another piece takes the author and Grantland to task for the shoddiness:
http://deadspin.com/how-grantland-screwed-up-the-story-of-essay-anne-vander-1505368906
*see above
http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/01/essay_anne_vanderbilt_dr_v_s_magical_putter_grantland_s_expos_of_a_trans.html
from Christina Karl (much credibility on the subject):
http://grantland.com/features/what-grantland-got-wrong/
Lastly, from Bill Simmons, creator/editor of Grantland, who candidly addresses the failures of journalism with this article:
http://grantland.com/features/the-dr-v-story-a-letter-from-the-editor/
Speaking as a guy who likes sports, the warning flag on this should have been--as Christina Kahrl aptly notes--when the story stopped being about the putter. Ambitious sportswriters want sports to say something about life. The preponderance of evidence suggests that sports don't necessarily say that, and that that may even be why people like sports in the first place.
ReplyDeleteThe decision to run the story was callous and misguided. But the conversation around the mistake has been really useful and (I think) pursued well from nearly every quarter, with the exception of some bloodthirsty yahoos on Twitter.
good of you to drop by--your insight always appreciated.
ReplyDeleteagreed on your pts above--illustrative of the blind spot(s) many of us still retain, despite our best efforts . . .