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A Clip Of Buzz, Leitch And Some MimeAwful Announcing has posted part of the clip of Buzz Bissinger’s rant about how much he hates the Internet and “Big Daddy Balls” last night. (I also loved how the topic was just “The Internet.”) This particular clip is even better because a reminder for a documentary about NOFX (NOFX!) is plasted on the bottom of it the entire time, a reminder that television is inherently a better medium than the Internet. Cleveland Browns wideout Braylon Edwards is also there, but doesn’t say anything of note, doesn’t blog and doesn’t have any teammates who blog. Internet Media Segment [Awful Announcing] |
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I just think it’s funny watching old sportswriters get so pissed off at blogs (the good ones not the crazy ones) because they blogs actually cover sports better and it has exposed the profession. Many people think the top sportswriters at newspapers and at ESPN etc. are the best sport journalist this country has to offer, but we are finding out that the merely just kissed enough butt and were non-threatening enough to market so they moved up and all the Joe six-packs who actually know sports and have opinions were left in the dust. Now the internet has given us a forum to voice our opinions and cover sports and the whole sports writing professor has been exposed.
Please stop fucking my mom.
P.S. I’ve heard DMAC’s tits are fabulous.
I have to think that Buzz and the rest of the MSM’s problem with sports blogs (and blogs in general) has to be that people are READING them, not writing them. I mean, caring what other people may or may not write is pretty counter-productive; after all I’m guessing that 98% of blogs have fewer readers than you can count on your fingers.
No, the problem has to be that the best blogs actually have readers. Lots of readers, and they’re gaining in readership while newspaper/magazine readership continues to plummet like a stone.
After all, if people are reading blogs they must NOT be reading whatever column or book or article the authors just wrote and are thus taking money out of the “legitimate journalist’s” pockets. Heaven knows those of us who are on the interwebs are completely incapable of supporting more than one thought at a time, which is why we’ve fought against things like tabbed browsing and RSS feed readers for so long.
Journalists talk about standards and skills - despite the fact that, in this specific arena, the better sports blogs are many times better-written than the trash in most newspaper sports sections - but at the end of the day they’re just bitching because they think they’re getting kicked in the wallet.
The hypocrisy is really quite stunning.
I agree, but is there the same level of vitriol involved between political columnists and political blogs?
Maybe there was, but I don’t think so anymore; again, all of this feels like 2005, maybe earlier.
I would wager, I think, that your average political commentator/columnist is much more attuned to his/her own intense feelings of self-loathing than your average sportswriter. I mean, no one does that job because they love themselves, after all…
Thus the lack of this idiotic argument on that front.
The specific argument of sports journalists v. sports bloggers is just now coming to a head (for a bunch of reasons), but you’re correct, the political end of that fight was done and dusted before the midterms.