re: Whitlock: How a Gawker-Affiliated Website Made ESPN Politically Correct

Also, let's look at Frank Whitlock's motivation for writing the article. He used to do whatever he could to win favor with the first batch of Deadspin writers after Will Leitch left. I am referring to the Craggs, Scocca, Petchesky, Daulerio crowd. At this point only Petchesky is left and he is by far the least outrageous and opinionated of the bunch.

Then when he came back to ESPN to run the Undefeated, he went out and recruited their primary race/civil rights guys, at the time their only black employee, an intern named Greg Howard. Howard then wrote a series of articles showing how incompetent Whitlock was at managing the Undefeated, how he was in over his head, and within months, Whitlock was fired and had to go back to Fox Sports for pennies on the dollar.

He is perhaps the least objective person when it comes to Deadpsin who isn't named Hulk Hogan.