Buzz Bissinger: 'I Shouldn't Have Used Profanity ... I Embarrassed Myself'

Rocky Top Talk: Front Page Posts found this 5/5/2008 on sports.aol.com [flag]

Two days after unleashing a profane tirade about blogs on Bob Costas 's HBO show, Friday Night Lights author H.G. Buzz Bissinger showed some contrition on Dan LeBatard's radio show . Bissinger (at left in the photo, with a film executive and the director of the movie Friday Night Lights ) didn't exactly embrace blogs in his radio appearance, but he did acknowledge that he took things too far ... [link]

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Talking Points: nuking the notebook May 5, 2008
Published 5/5/2008 by Joel <info@rockytoptalk.com> at Rocky Top Talk: Front Page Posts
... (inviting Buzz to read but warning him to watch his language because "in these parts, vulgarity is no substitute for argument."). And finally, Buzz: "Embarrassed." Uh-huh. ...

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I am a blogger, and so what of it?

AEM posted 5/1/2008 from unc5corners.blogspot.com

I watched the "unfair" matchup between writer and anti-Internet/blogger Buzz Bissinger (who wrote Friday Night Lights) and the owner of one of the biggest sports blogs, Will Leitch (Deadspin). At first I thought I would just let all of this pass, since personally I saw that there were plenty of others taking their time to respond to these accusations.

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For a guy who has given his share of sanctimonious lectures about the coarsening of our culture, Bob Costas sure did allow a lot of profane screaming on his HBO show on Tuesday night. And that's fine -- Costas wanted to put on an entertaining show, ...

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Award-winning author Buzz Bissinger voiced his displeasure about blogs on last week’s Bob Costas HBO special. In a contrite and fairly candid interview with us, he sums up his television performance thusly: “I am a man of passion, and my ...

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The past and future of sports writing coming face-to-face when Spencer Hall sits down for an in depth interview with Pulitzer Prize winning author and blogging anti-christ, Buzz Bissinger.