OT- FoxSports.com lays off college football writers
Looks like ESPN isn't the only one tightening the belt with "talent". Stewart Mandel was overly critical of UM signing Harbaugh and his thoughts on us oversigning are ridciulous, but Bruce Feldman typically had reasonable ideas on the sport. Here's hoping he finds a new writing home.
http://thespun.com/college-football/fox-sports-stewart-mandel-bruce-fel…
Now that's a - Hot Take
Fire them all - all football news is fake new anyway. I dont believe what a final score is unless I was at the game. And even then I dont even believe the scoreboard - who knows who is operating that thing. For me, the only truth about what happened in a game is the truth I see. The only reporting that needs to be done is the reporting I do to myself. Fire them all for their fake reporting and fake statistics.
The bloodletting continues: MTVNews has basically done the same thing Fox Sports just did, going to video. Holly Anderson and Jane Coaston among the casualties.
There is, typically, industry well-wishing that occurs in such situations from those working for other employers. Often suggestions that "so-and-so will land on their feet" and stuff like that. They are nice sentiments, and often the talent that is axed is indeed quite good.
But with all of the places downsizing at the same time (across multiple areas of coverage) there is no way that some people are going to be left without a place to sit when the music stops.
First he gets fired because ESPN decided that CRAIG JAMES was a hill worth dying on, and now this.
All of these good writers should just go independent. You could cobble together a damn fine roster with these firings
Stein, Abbot, Katz, Stark, Caple, Werder, McMurphy (not Britt), Verrier, Ashley Fox, Buccigross, Brennan, Mark Saxon, Feldman, Mandel... there's probably 2-3 that I am forgetting. I'd read that site.
Hinton, too. Buccigross is still employed, though.
Problem: Too many good writers out there, not enough employers. The biggest sites are the ones downsizing.
Just point a single camera at the field, push "record", and be done with it already.