October 2011
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Why Updyke Calls Finebaum
Perhaps the saddest chapter in the Harvey Updyke saga occurred when Updyke made his most recent phone call to the Paul Finebaum show about a month before he was scheduled to go on trial. The call was not only pointless but also self-destructive: It cost Updyke his high-profile pro bono attorney, Glennon Threatt.
You can still hear the call on Finebaum’s show; he seems to run it daily. ...
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A Journalistic Sin Involving Saints →
The New Orleans Times-Picayune’s parent company got some New Orleans Saints to tweet about the new Saints site on the T-P’s Web page. Was it a conflict of interest, since the T-P also covers the Saints objectively on its sports pages?
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First Names First
To see how racial attitudes have changed, witness the first name. Really.
At one time, early in the integration of sports, African-American athletes were more likely to be mentioned by their first names in sports headlines. White athletes, by their last names. (“Willie, Mantle Shine in All-Star Game,” for example.)
Younger readers might find this hard to believe, but in an earlier...
