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Best/worst Knicks writers
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VDesai
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12/28/2010  11:44 PM
Aside from writing fluff pieces, having a strange Marbury fascination and generally writing tabloid fodder, Mark Berman is just a poor quality writer.

Frank Isola is a joke- he's always "broke" stories that ended up being completely false. He basically wanted Ewing out of town. He's burned so many bridges with the organization that he has no sources and his articles are no almost all opinion since he'll never break a story.

Alan Hahn is a good writer, who actually seems to enjoy covering the team. His articles are a good read, but are unfortunately buried in Newsday which no one reads.

Howard Beck is a good no frills writer. I've always liked the NY Times coverage of the Knicks, with the exception of Selena Roberts who is a completely worthless journalist.

In terms of blogs, Knickerblogger is the best, though he's now opened it up to more writers who are hit or miss. He's not a news blogger, but his analysis is always on point. Poasting and Toasting is pretty good as well. I like Tommy Dee as a poster and he seems like a nice guy from the couple of events where I've met him, but I think his site gets too focused on trying to break stories and pass along rumors and that can end up being annoying.

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CrushAlot
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12/29/2010  12:08 AM
I like Hahn and Adamek. When things got bad with Isiah I emailed Isola several times and always got a response so I give him more credit than most. I read anything Knick related but boycott Berman at times.
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Sangfroid
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12/29/2010  9:18 AM
Paladin55 wrote:Beck and Steve Adamek (The Bergen Record??) are decent reads for me. I also like reading some of the bloogs posted on the UK Home page. Hahn is fine, too, but I don't subscribe to Newsday, so I have not read much from him.The writers who try to manufacture and manipulate the stories to attract readers or spark controversies are the ones I cannot take.


Does Berman even write all of his own stuff...or does he have a group of sub-writers who do a lot of the gopher work and write articles under his name? Just wondering.

Isola is another guy I can do without, although there have been times when I've liked an article or two of his.

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nyk4ever
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12/29/2010  10:49 AM
jimimou wrote:i think the best knicks writers are the guys on this forum that do it for free. i think the worst knicks writers are the ones that get paid for it (by the papers).

thanks jimi

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Best/worst Knicks writers

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