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Ghost writing

A though occurres to me while reading a rant about Joe Morgan over at MinorLeagueBall.  We talk about some of the schmucks they have writing for ESPN.com (Kruk, Morgan, etc.)-how much of that do you think is their own writing and how much of it is handed off to the intern?  I've never been 'behind the scenes' at a place like ESPN, so I don't know how often the process is used.  I also don't watch BT or Sportscenter enough to know if the writing 'sounds' like them, so I thought I'd throw it out there.  Might this explain some of Joe's irrational moments (Dissing moneyball when he's never read it, in particular), or is he just a wacky old coot?

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... is that a lot of those guys (Gammons, especially, and this isn't a knock on Gammons, just an observation) dictate their columns, and they're transcribed by software. All of the espn.com columns read very "verbally" -- as if someone was just saying whatever comes to mind (and, in Gammons' case, off of some prepared notes). Gammons, in particular, tends to have a lot of homonym "typos" -- which are actually fairly rare, even among bad spellers, and could be a sign of transcription error.

by monkeyball on Jun 15, 2005 8:26 AM PDT reply actions   0 recs

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