BREAKING NEWS: Bleacher Report Writer Reads ESPN.com, ‘Breaks Story’

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Published: August 12, 2009

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... about an athlete based on information found at ESPN.com. Though he used no actual journalistic reporting skills to break the story, he still takes pride in his writings.

"I kept clicking the refresh button on ESPN.com and there it was," Deveny said. "Something new. So I quickly logged on to Bleacher Report and regurgitated the information I read on ESPN and pretended it was my own story.

"I was the first to post this story on Bleacher Report."

After Deveny submitted his article, "editors," as they're called at Bleacher Report, revised his story. B/R "editors" aren't required to have actual formal training on how to edit, but as long as they claim to have read the B/R editor's manual, they are free to hack a story into pieces, often incorrectly hyphenating words and adding other grammatical errors to the story. In fact, the only thing the "editors" seem to be able to accomplish is adding em dashes to a story.

Once Deveny's story was published, he immedia...

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