ON THAT PATERNO INTERVIEW
Under "things that were published this weekend that we read and were thoroughly underwhelmed by," please file the Sally Jenkins article on Paterno in the WaPo. Not that she's to blame, save for the weird, tacked-on coda about all the great things you already knew about Paterno. It's just that interviewing an octogenarian the day after chemo with his attorney and PR guy there probably isn't the most ideal situation for an interview. (But yeah, everything Drew said about it.)
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I was curious what kind of reporter would be allowed by Paterno's handlers to interview him
I’m surprised they even allowed a sports reporter.
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by Winfield Featherston on Jan 16, 2012 1:44 PM EST reply actions
Barbara Walters brings her own vasaline-covered camera lenses and softball questions
She would have been the obvious choice.
They chose well
Sally Jenkins is a sportswriter, but many of her columns plumb the psychological aspects of sports, and her background at Sports Illustrated makes her a great long-form writer. I thought Sally’s piece was good for what it was — Paterno’s first attempt to synthesize his side of the story for an empathetic but not uncritical journalist. She wasn’t going to get JoePa to admit that he was a complete shithead about this, and pulling a Jim Gray on the guy the day after chemo probably wouldn’t have done any good.
Eventually, someone with more time to do interviews and evaluate the whole sordid mess will write a great book about this, but it’s far too early for that.
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agree but for different reasons
Jenkins has been helping Lance Armstrong keep a clean facade for years. There may have been a time when she was an incisive sportswriter, but that time was pretty much over when I started reading the Post’s sports coverage in 97. So she’s a pretty good choice for a puff piece supervised by a PR consultant and a lawyer.
I don’t blame Paterno for taking that approach, but he really should have paid for the advertising.
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if only there were a way to read that without having to go to deaspin
ick.
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There is an article at Statecollege.com
that details why Jenkins was picked.
Hint – combination of long history of her family covering Paterno and her purported erudite treatment of topics.
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