So how the ceaselessly-hyped LeBron James announcement look on ESPN last night? Time Magazine’s Sean Gregory says James looked “miserable,” with “tortured body language,” as he announced he was jumping ship to Miami in a 70-minute “special” — and notes the consequences of this move.
UPDATE: The Atlantic’s Joshua Green thinks James’ move helps the Tea Party movement.
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.