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You Don't Have To Write This Shit If They're Not Paying You To

Over at Sports Illustrated, you can read an article about Tom Brady’s new line of sleepwear for A Company That Makes Stretchy Workout Stuff. The article contains the following lines:

This Wall Street Journal Comment Section Offers A Rare Peek Into The World Of Whites

The media often makes reference to White America and its mysterious attitudes. But where can you gain access to this closed group? You must journey deep, deep into the rabbit hole.

Peggy Noonan Extends Her Sympathy To Those That She Helped To Make Poor

As this year of imprudent surprise comes to an end, Reagan-era porcelain urn Peggy Noonan turns her forgiving gaze to the lessers—they are poor, you see. But why?

The Worst American Sportswriting Of 2016

There are plenty of lists out there compiling the year’s best sportswriting—try this one if you’re looking for some good holiday-weekend reading—and that’s as it should be, because there is a lot of great sportswriting out there, possibly more than ever. You won’t find any of it here, though. Instead, we celebrate the worst sportswriting of the year: The purple prose, the writers too clever by half, the overuse of the majestic plural. This is what brought the Deadspin staff the most joy in 2016.

ESPN, Others Fall For Bogus Information About NFL Spring League

Late Thursday afternoon, SiriusXM NFL Radio tweeted the following:

The Least Important Writers of 2016

Congratulations to all the wieners.

The Regulatory Capture of the Press

There is a phenomenon called “regulatory capture” that describes how government regulators come to be controlled by those that they are meant to regulate. The same idea applies to the press. And it’s easy to see in action.