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she writes for page 2 which should be more than enough info.
http://news.bostonherald.com/news/re...osition=recent
An ESPN.com columnist is apologizing - through a statement released by the Web site - for likening cheering for the Boston Celtics [team stats] to Adolf Hitler and nuclear war.
In her original column railing against the Celtics, Jemele Hill wrote, “Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It’s like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan.”
Hill’s piece was posted on ESPN.com late Saturday, and a spokesman for the sports powerhouse said yesterday that the crude comparison was edited out within hours.
The newly edited version of the piece, “Deserving or not, I still hate the Celtics,” is still online. Hill did not respond to an e-mail for comment yesterday. ESPN.com released a statement.
“The column, as originally posted, made some absolutely unacceptable comparisons,” the statement said. “We’ve spoken with Jemele, and she understands that she exercised poor judgment.”
“Both Jemele and ESPN.com apologize. Within hours of its posting on Saturday evening, the inappropriate references were removed from the site, and we are thoroughly reviewing the entire situation,” the statement said.
When asked how Hill’s remarks made it onto ESPN’s Web site, ESPN spokesman Paul Melvin said there was a “breakdown in the system of editorial checks and balances.”
“We’re normally quite proud of the editorial judgment exercised here, but this was clearly an exception to that,” Melvin said.
Hill has been writing for ESPN.com for about two years and also does some on-air work for them.
Hill writes for Page 2 - an edgier section of ESPN.com whose columnists include Bill Simmons, Scoop Jackson and cartoonist Kurt Snibbe.
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Wow. It's a rare day when a journalist takes the integrity of ESPN and actually lowers it, but Jemele is showing us that anything is possible.
She is a poor example of what a female journalist should be. ESPN needs to rid itself of this situation -- and her. This kind of hyperbole shows that she will never, ever be able to make an objective assessment about sports, which is essentially the core of being a good reporter.
she writes for page 2 which should be more than enough info.
what a ing dumbass
worst sports writer on Earth. wrote the Kobe > Jordan article, listed "scarface" as a great Pacino performance, and now this. what a stupid .
i'd never hit a woman but i'd love to slap the out of this .
>Jemele Hills writing
there is one thing uglier than her writing, her looks.
looks like an overwheight Golem
there is one thing uglier than her writing, her looks.
looks like an overwheight Golem
How does this ugly still have a job?
She's like the Ann Coulter of sports.
Hopefully, this incident gets her fired from ESPN and we don't have to see her or hear about her ignorant crap anymore. She's horrible. And, hopefully when she does get fired, she doesn't return to Detroit local newspapers.
The more her crap I read, the more I Miss Hunter S Thompson.
It does kinda feel like it at times.
Two reasons why she will never be fired.
And she knows it.
Mono FTW.
She is terrible.
Ooh, she's got shtick. She likes to ride around in cars with famous athletes and ask them questions. How edgy! How original!
This isn't the 1980s. There are other minority female journalists in the sports media today. They can easily replace her with another candidate working in local sports right now.
So true, Page 2 has gone downhill. Used to get to read him and Ralph Wiley.
At the same time, T Park is right in that she at least believes in her own mind that those are the reasons why she has a job. Which is why she writes insecure, attention-grabbing shock value bull instead of actual substance.
You can only bring up Hitler if you are talking about dictators in the Middle East.
Never for sports unless you are talking about Jesse Owens.
I agree.
Signed,
Nick Saban comparing a college football game to 9/11
skip bayless>woody paige
wow.. yea shes not that great.
well she beat scoop jackson to the punch..
You may want her to keep her job with ESPN for your sake.
Honestly, the Hitler hyperbole is not that offensive to me, and this is much ado about nothing in a PC-sensitive world. But she absolutely is a talentless, ty hack writer, so if this leads to her losing her six figure job at BSPN, fine by me...
That's the issue i have with it. Not that she made the reference, but that it was on a nationally recognized website. This is shoddy journalism to the extreme. I would expect to see better tripe out of my University's sports section from volunteer students getting paid 10 bucks who are barely out of high school.
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