"On the Media"
Neither ESPN ombud
Le Anne Schreiber nor
Bob Garfield bring up
the ESPN memo telling employees to parade around the office in Arena Football t-shirts. Schreiber says bloggers have made her job easier. "I think partly [ESPN execs] would rather hear the criticism from me, the relative politeness of it, than taking it in through the sometimes low blow and slamming of the world of sports bloggers. So in some ways the often-vicious personal attacks made upon ESPN that floats about out there on the Internet makes it easier for me to not pull my punches and to have my criticisms heard." || More
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