Bob Costas: "Buzz realizes that he did a disservice to his own points"

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Bissinger vs. Leitch or Established Media vs. The Future
Published 5/2/2008 by MaPatsFan at Pats Pulpit: Front Page Posts
... Now not to toot my own horn or the horns of other SBNation writers, but it's work to put together a story that's well written and well researched.  Quality has a price and that price is time and effort.  For Buzz to lump me in with the pond scum who merely posts to incite is somewhat low brow and shows a lack of awareness.  He's even admitted so.  ...

TV Barn: Bob Costas: “Buzz realizes that he did a disservice to his own points”
Published 5/2/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
TV Barn: Bob Costas: “Buzz realizes that he did a disservice to his own points” ‘Bleep you, #########.’” That’s a hit!”...quickly contacts Blogagotchi.com to see if its free. But the worst thing you’d find in talk radio the snarkiest thing you’d read in print ... even more virulent forms of it are found on the internet because in most cases there are no standards. Now, coming with it are there many important fresh new voices? Absolutely. Are there places where people like you, who were one of the first ones, and Joe Posnanski, not to name all Kansas City guys, but where you ...

Friday links
Published 5/2/2008 by MB at Friar Forecast
... Here’s a Bob Costas interview with Aaron Barnhart discussing, as you might imagine, Bissenger’s remarks on “Costas Now” and the whole thing in general. Costas: ...

Opining on the MSSM-Blogs Ordeal
Published 5/2/2008 by Bill Baer at Baseball Digest Daily
... , or here at Baseball Digest Daily are all informative and I don’t think I’ve ever come across any malcontents at any of those websites, due to luck or removal. On another note, Bob Costas said in an interview with Aaron Barnhart after the HBO show had aired, “Nothing the blogosphere does in the near future poses a threat to me,” responding to the claim that the MSSM is threatened by the prominence of blogs. I think he’s telling the truth and his later implication that newspaper columnists may be the few that really are threatened is equally as true. Bob Costas isn’t ...

Clearing the Bases -- Late Friday Dead Horse Flog Edition
Published 5/2/2008 by Jay at The Futility Infielder
... on dodging the bullet of appearing on that "Costas Now" segment), here's an interview with Costas by Kansas City Star TV critic Aaron Barnhart, who had already written ...

Catfish Stew: Charming the Contortionists
Published 5/6/2008 at Baseball Toaster
... * * * While there is unquestionably a new media revolution going on, and much of it is good, the part speaking for myself, the only part, the ONLY part of which I am critical, is that there is an ethos on a significant portion of the web, an ethos not of criticism or skepticism or a contrarian viewpoint. There is an ethos of abuse , where not only is cogent thought not required, it s almost resented. Where a reasonable argument has no place and where ad hominem attacks reign. -- Bob Costas It seems to me that the question Jason Kottke asks is also at the core of this whole ...