We’re going with this as the lead item:
So you had a Sports Illustrated cover with Mo’ne Davis on it this week?
Here’s what showed up in our mail box.
The bottom line is that Davis, the 13-year-old Little Leaguer who wants to play college hoops at UConn someday, stole the headlines for most of this week. All she needed to do was take the Ice Bucket Challenge and be named the Cleveland Browns starting quarterback to really make herself a media sensation.
We look at the impact she had from a media standpoint in this week’s column.
And as for other things we wanted to add:
== Among the best media pieces we saw this week related to Mo’ne Davis:
= Anything from ESPNW.com columnist Melissa Isaacson, starting with the idea of how much is too much attention at the Little League World Series, her friendship with Canada’s Emma Marsh, and this one on why Davis matters to other girls.
= The New York Times’ Jere Longman on how Davis has handled the attention.
= The Chicago Tribune’s Philip Hersh, on whether Davis is only great in defeating boys
= SI explains why she’s on their cover this week (in some regions, apparently not L.A.)
= A New York Newsday editorial
= Some people were selling her autograph on eBay? Yup, and still are.
== And there’s this NBC clip from 1989 when Vicky Brucker made headlines as a girl playing in the Little League World Series as she represented Eastview Little League in San Pedro. Notice how the media treated it back then versus today. Continue reading “Media column version 08.22.14: A Mo’ne that’s a media work of art” »