posted under: Blogs, Buzz Bissinger, Newspapers
Sports Bloggers Are Scum
I completely missed the boat on the sports town hall program hosted by Bob Costas the other night, but I have since seen the videos of Buzz Bissinger’s insane tirade against sports bloggers and blogging in general. If you missed it too, The Bucky Channel has some clips. The sound of an industry dieing is not pretty.
In the week or so before the Costas show aired, some of the major newspaper companies released their earnings for the first quarter and the numbers were not good — I should say, still not good and getting worse. Circulation continues to decline and advertisers continue to flee the print medium. At the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, circulation is down by more than 5% from a year ago and advertising revenue is off by more than 15%. It’s no longer a question of if print is dead, but rather which major daily will be the first to follow the lead of The Capital Times of Madison and transition to an all online edition.
And to think it’s all the fault of us bloggers. Way to go folks, way to go.
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May 20th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
I watched the Costas thing this weekend and found it pretty ironic that the one guy (other than Braylon Edwards) attempting to engage in civil discourse was the Deadspin fellow. Bissinger was too busy making personal attacks, and Costas was essentially providing a very one-sided point of view when he wasn’t attempting to get Bissinger even more riled up.
I’ve been thinking about the show for a couple days now and may offer my own perspective over at GRUDGE HARBOR soon enough.
I came away very, very unimpressed with the Neanderthal Bissinger and the chirping pipsqueak Costas.