ESPN Ombudsman Schreiber on ESPN's lack of written journalistic guidelines

[LittleBoyBlue]

I would say the timing is directly related to T.O.'s comments about Werder and, to a lesser extent, CC confrontations of Werder that have made the rounds on the Internet.

I don't think T.O. will be successful in getting Werder fired (not that he's trying to) or get ESPN to change its approach to covering him (provided he keeps his mouth shut) but score one for T.O. in that he got ESPN's ombudsman to address the issue in a round-about way.

Agreed.

Player revolt.
Head Coach revolt.
Fan revolt.

They had to be heard... no sweeping under the rug.

 

[Seven]

So I'm assuming this is also devised to take the heat away from Werder? I still think he needs to come clean and acknowledge his semi-truth reporting and also acknowledge he simply could not keep it from being a personal vendetta. Abuse of his positional power. I'm pretty sure a person gets sick and tired of a heavily baited, drama-induced line of questioning.

Bottom line is he wanted a controversy and got the silent treatment instead, which in turn he retaliated like a child.