ESPN The Mag Sets New Low in Guest Editing

We won’t lie to ourselves and say guest editing a magazine is the most rigorous of journalistic pursuits (unless, of course, you’re Bono, in which case everything you do is life-alteringly important). Guest editors are chosen for their ability to boost sales, not their editorial discretion. Even so, we’d like to believe the illusion that they play some part in the decision -making process.

In its most recent issue, ESPN The Magazine, — a publication that’s never seen an infograph it couldn’t make bigger and less wordy, one that felt the need deface Rick Reilly’s otherwise excellent debut

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