Word: grunwald
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mike Grunwald is a pretty good sportswriter. If he weren't, The Boston Globe would never have hired him as a sports writer this summer. Mike Grunwald the sportswriter spent the whole summer making the truly unimportant seem important. But for some reason, he needed some more practice...
...Mike Grunwald the Editorial Chair decided to apply these sports reporting techniques to his recent editorial commentary, "I'm Washingerelemontic." But the application didn't work--as it generally doesn't for not-so-good sportswriters--and in this instance couldn't work, except by distorting facts and committing the same mistakes that overzealously committed sports fans make in their temporary loss of full reason...
Like the best of these die-hard sports fans, Grunwald confuses style and substance in his diatribe on me. Because he doesn't like the way I say things (my style) he tries to impugn my points of view (my substance) without ever considering them on their merits. Grunwald, really, really, doesn't like the fact that I feel confident enough in what I say to refrain from writing theses to back up each point I make...
...pathetic paragraph, Grunwald enumerates a list of quotations from pieces I've written; these quotes made points that I failed to substantiate to his satisfaction. He pejoratively editorializes after several of the points that "he [I] didn't say why," giving the reader the impression that I had no idea what I was writing about. Grunwald assumes that because I didn't bore my readers and him with the philosophical or empirical underpinnings for each statement I made, I must therefore not have any such evidence. Gee, how convenient...
Michael R. Grunwald '92 and David A. Plotz '92 plan to join consulting firms if they graduate...