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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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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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.
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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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Smart growth' does not have a fixed definition. Phrases like that mean whatever you want them to mean.
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ESPN has said that they fired me without having been told to do so by Disney, and I actually believe that. I think they did it on their own.
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Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.
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But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.
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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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But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.
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And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
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I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.
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Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.
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I think that might have been an element in it, and people have asked me that very thing. Remember, Disney is the majority shareholder, but it is not an operating division of Disney.