Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Easterbrook
Gregg Edmund Easterbrookis an American writer and a contributing editor of both The New Republic and The Atlantic Monthly. During the National Football League season, Easterbrook formerly wrote an eclectic column called Tuesday Morning Quarterback on ESPN.com, and that column migrated to the New York Times in September 2015. He has authored nine books, and writes for op-ed pages, magazines, and journals...
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And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
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I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.
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But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
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I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.
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It was Orwellian. I completely disappeared, and disappeared the same day. It was by early that evening when the Times story ran. That was an overreaction. All human beings under pressure behave poorly.
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The publication date of that book was Sept. 10, 2001. That's why nobody's ever heard of it. Maybe I'll do another one in the future someday.
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Hurricanes became a media obsession in the mid-'90s, when there were two consecutive above-average years for Atlantic storms,
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Playing football is obviously very strenuous. It's exhausting. You have to try very hard in football. But there's no heroic risk involved.
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I think they completely overreacted by firing me, but in my mind I think this coming a month after Rush Limbaugh had a lot to do with it.