Blogs vs. The Mainstream Media

by burc on Apr 30, 2008 4:26 PM EDT Comment 4 comments

I'm sure most of you have seen this already, but Will Leitch of Deadspin was on Bob Costas' HBO show last night with "journalist" Buzz Bissinger, debating the merits of blogs. Bissinger launches into an unprovoked, profanity-laced tirade about how blogs are "dumbing down" society. Pretty brutal stuff, regardless of whether or not you're a Deadspin fan.

I know this has no real relevance to the Colts, but as a member of a blogging community, I was shocked at Bissinger's ignorance of blogs in general.

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Douchebag

I’m sure BBS is cooking up an angry dismantling of this moron like every other blogger and I’m looking forward to it.

He bashes blogs for being profane while being the most foul mouthed member of the panel. Not that I personally mind the language, but he’s obscenely hypocritical there.

The anti-blog criticisms are insulting to the sports fans. He thinks they can’t tell the difference between what’s a joke/rumor and what’s legitimate reporting. “The average fan is too dumb to know what to think. They need me to tell them how they should feel about sports.”

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by shake n bake on Apr 30, 2008 4:38 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

more and youtube

Awful Announcing has a partial youtube video of the segment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9fCfgTjlWU

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by shake n bake on Apr 30, 2008 4:50 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

blogging

I’d say blogging has exactly the opposite effect which is why main stream journalists are so scared of it. If fans can have an open forum for discussion they can exchange ideas and refer back to other sources and probably have a MUCH broader depth of knowledge.

What this means for the average broadcaster now though is that the fan is a much more informed fan who will expect that from their journalist so they have to work harder to maintain their status as an ‘expert’

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less until they know everything about nothing...

by bluegirl on May 1, 2008 2:12 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs