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06-03-2020 02:53 PM |
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Originally Posted by MahiMike
(Post 15002960)
Can't believe Whitlock and Wright made it to TV and Posnaski didn't.
#Baldism?
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He dabbled. He wasn't great at it and ultimately didn't really want to do it anyway. I think the experiment was mostly encouraged by higher-ups at a time when conventional sportswriting was losing its audience to video formats.
I've always thought that's why he went to The Athletic. It's what he wants to do and one of the few places around where a strictly writing job (maybe with some podcast work here and there) can be lucrative enough for your employer to keep paying you.
I always got the impression from Whitlock that televised mass media was where he wanted to be all along. And it makes sense - guy was NEVER as good a writer as Poz, even if Poz got super grandiose and pretentious on occasion. You could tell when he was just on a role and was going to have you rolling your eyes for awhile. Once the melodrama started, you knew he wasn't going to come back from the ledge in that article so walk away or get your eye rolls ready.
Whitlock essentially wrote like people on TV speak, by and large. Very prosaic and usually only barely hanging onto its underlying point for most of it. You could break his column into bullet points most of the time and not do it a disservice.
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