DCman11 wrote:Deadspin, I would argue, practices greater journalistic integrity than most of their contemporaries. I understand you may like KS, but this article was nothing more than calling him out on his rather obvious disdain for Kluwe. None of the claims made were factually incorrect and the conjecture that they do produce are at least justified.
As I said, it was purely editorial in nature. the only thing that differentiates it from the kind of thing we do here is that it was published on Deadspin.
I don't know, I'm just sick of people putting Deadspin down because it is "unprofessional." They cuss and don't use cookie-cutter grammar..so what? Their credibility has been tarnished by what exactly?
That behavior, for one.
Look, if you or anybody else likes Deadspin, that's fine. Nobody is saying you can't or shouldn't. The point here is that Tom Ley's little rant calling Siefert's post a "piece of sh##" and Siefert a coward was an unprofessional take by someone with an axe to grind (as he makes pretty clear by beginning his piece with the words "Minnesota Vikings punter and
friend of Deadspin Chris Kluwe has been struggling on the field lately"), not some sort of credible evidence that Siefert is a raging right winger who hates Kluwe.
Deadspin is a gossip and opinion site. As I said earlier, there's a place for that but it shouldn't be mistaken for professional journalism.
