Salon.com > Jeré Longman http://www.salon.com Wed, 22 May 2013 12:06:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Olympic women’s burden http://www.salon.com/2012/08/09/the_plight_of_olympic_females_salpart/ http://www.salon.com/2012/08/09/the_plight_of_olympic_females_salpart/#comments Thu, 09 Aug 2012 15:51:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=12976679 Over the weekend, Jeré Longman of the New York Times published this piece about female Olympic hurdler Lolo Jones. It is, by all accounts, pretty scathing. Alyssa Rosenberg calls it “one of the nastiest profiles” she’s ever seen. David Roth calls the article “unfounded and unfair,” and Isaac Rauch of Deadspin found it so harsh that he goes to considerable effort to tear it apart line by line. Additional takedowns here and here.

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