If you’re like me, and feel that running across the Broadway Extension drunk and naked at 5:00pm sounds like a more pleasant experience than reading a Jenni Carlson column, then don’t go to the Jenny Carlson page at NewsOK.com. You see, now instead of just giving her a space to print boring human interest articles, they have decided that Jenni needs a video blog.
I think this little nugget proves Clark Matthews’ theory that Jenni Carlson is trying to rule the world. In fact, it’s kind of getting obvious. How else could the worst sports columnist at a major newspaper get both a video blog and a sports radio show? Aspirations for world domination! How else?
So don’t be surprised in few years when Jenni runs for (and wins) the city council, then mayor, and then governor. Don’t be surprised when she makes a dark horse run for and wins the presidency. And don’t be surprised when she overthrows congress, bombs China and mandates all newspaper articles and blog posts must end with clever one liners that tie everything up.
Don’t be surprised. Because I told you so.
Jenni Carlson is a woman. Jenni Carlson is a writer. Jenni writes four times a week. She writes because it’s her job. She writes because she gets paid. The world changed. But she hasn’t. Some say her style’s dull. Some say her style’s monotonous. Some say she’s a woman. Some say she’s a writer. Some say…zzzzzzzzzzz.
Yeah her articles are pretty bad. I wrote better essays when I was a junior in High School. And I’m a terrible writer. Long story short, I will not vote for her if she runs for President.
Funny stuff, guys.
The “some say” is, to me, the most obnoxious rhetorical trick in the book. Were I an editor, it would be banned from the pages of my newspaper. Either be able to produce the people who say these things, or figure out another way to prove your point, please.
It always upsets me when I see an interesting headline on newsok.com and click on it only to find it is one of Jenni’s articles. Not only have I lost those three seconds of my life it took me to manuever my mouse and wait for the page to load, I’ve also given one of her articles traffic. I did watch one of the video blogs, and was surprised that she was actually more annoying to hear than read.
“worst sports columnist at a major newspaper”
1. Did they fire Rohde?
2. Major newspaper?
Jenni wrote stories when no one read. Jenni wrote on sports when no one cared. Now she is a celebrity who transforms gender. Like Hilary. Barbra.Oprah. Born into a man’s world, the little gal with the brunette hair had a gift. Not music. Not arts. Writing. Clark Matthews says she wants to rule the world. Jim Traber says she is a yardbird. Patrick says running around drunk and naked is a more pleasant experience than reading her writing. Clark. Jim. Patrick. All critics. All men. When these men snipe at her, Jenni only says,”Thanks for commenting. Evidently I had some sort of impact.” Jenni Carlson. Jenni. She’s the reason men are moving away. She’s the reason men are pulling their hair out. Men. Frusrated. Men. Angry. all because of Jenni.
I don’t have any hair to pull out. Shows what you know, Mark.
I listened to Jeni on 1340 on the ride home. She co-hosts with the pretentious Dave Garrett. In a thirty minute span, they discussed dog shows, animal nicknames for sports teams, and Dave compared U.F.C. to The Three Stooges. Huh? Dave mentioned four times that he used to announce Dallas Cowboy games. You got fired, Dave. Get over it.
Anyone read her article this morning? Apparently Obi Mounelo’s arrest plus a few incidents in the past four months (Jameson, Coach Williams, Terrel Harris) are all indicitive of an OSU basketball team that is falling apart. Mrs. Carlson, every basketball team in the NCAA goes through these things. Kids make mistakes, coaches leave, players move on, this is how it works.
You know who should “sound the alarm”? The Oklahoman- Your paper is getting worse by the day. Please stop making me read this crap. Put Jeni Carlson in another department because I feel like I’m in the middle of a lifetime movie when I read her articles. She’s just much too dramatic. Thank you, wow I feel much better now. I’m gonna go outside and swim to my car now.
Big Boy, you would have loved Traber’s show today. He ripped Jeni’s column, then he and a caller named Robbie Parsons had an hour-long argument. Traber finally played his trump card: how much money do you make? Jim, hit him with your wallet!
Carlson’s style, if it can be called that, is simply a bad imitation of Berry Trammel’s drivel, another bad writer who looks like Grantland Rice next to the competition. How difficult can it be to surmount the standards set by the barely literate Dean Blevins, whose blog makes O.J.’s every- other-word- misspelled “suicide note” read like Shakespeare?
Apparently the ‘powers that be’ at the newspaper are not interested in reading Jenni’s articles either…she’s still there, babbling away with her typing fingers…
Who the hell is Jenni Carlson?
Damn, is it just me or, how do I put this…? Has her entire family been force-feeding her chicken 24/7/365 for the past decade?
Lock down the doughnuts! Jenni’s in the press box!
Some say she lives in a veal crate with just a plate, a keyboard, and a monitor within arms reach 20 hours a day.
When I first saw Mike Gundy’s response to the article, I thought he might be overreacting. I googled Jenni Carlson, just to see if she was at least cute. She is, in a fat girl Rachel Ray kind of way. Her video response is more than disappointing; it’s pathetic. She calls herself a reporter but she is, in fact, a journalist…there is a difference, reporters report facts, journalists whine and print their opinions. The Oklahoman should fire her and get someone more competent.
That “chicken” comment by that this girl about that black player on Oklahoma was so racist. I don’t know why they still keep her employed. I’m going to send a letter to the people that are responsible for her employment.
p.s A girl that is not the skinniest person is making comments about people eating chicken.
Go Jenni!!!! Dont listen to these idiots…I guess they dont have freedom of the press in the hick state of Oklahoma….Gundy sounded like an uneducated, idiot.
Jen, Lets do lunch!
I see that Jenni has one fan (perhaps) that wants to do lunch.
I just wish she would stop speculating and just report, no I take that back, she should stop writing!!!
The kids from the neighborhood asked me for an ideas on a frighting and unusual Halloween costume..I told them to dress in a low cut dress and pretend to be Jeni carlson…two of them egged my house and another oned cried all the way home and they told me…Nobody can be that frighting…. also who would take you seriously anyway????? You write like you change people’s lives. YOU are a newspaper from oklahoma!!!!!!
I think you need to not take yourselves so serious..