Buzz Bissinger Tries To Explain Blog Bashing

SbB posted 5/2/2008 from www.sportsbybrooks.com [flag]

Buzz Bissinger, writer of "Friday Night Lights" and hater of sports blogs, went on Dan Le Batard's radio show on Thursday and tried to explain his "Costas Now" tirade against Will Leitch. [link]

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Buzz Bissinger: 'I Shouldn't Have Used Profanity ... I Embarrassed Myself'
Published 5/2/2008 by Michael David Smith at FanHouse
... 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 (via SBB): ...

High Five
Published 5/2/2008 by Fornelli at Foul Balls
A quick look around the interweb while finally finishing what has been one of the longest weeks of my life I can only assume it was my Asshole Of The Week post that helped him see the light. [ SPORTSbyBROOKS ] White People: Terribly Un-Coordinated Since The Dawn of Man. [ ...

Blog-A-Da-Da-Da, Da-Da-Da: ESPN Likes SbB’s Wit
Published 6/11/2008 by jason at SPORTSbyBROOKS
• ESPN anchors Josh Elliott& Stan Verrett really enjoyed the amusing moniker we bestowed upon new free agent Gilbert Arenas : Mucho gracias to AWFUL ANNOUNCING for the video. • Darren Rovell of CNBC reads up on mortal enemies Buzz Bissinger& Will Leitch giving back-cover kudos on the same book . • WITH LEATHER punches up video of the groin hit to end all groin hits . • DEADSPIN trades word that Jonathan Papelbon& the Red Sox will give you autographed baseballs in return for nude pics of your ex-wife . • THE BIG LEAD slams down some snapshots of Tar Heel heartbreaker Tyler Hansbrough living it up with the ...

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Bissinger Vs. Leitch [Costas Now]

The Ghosts of Wayne Fontes found this 4/30/2008 on deadspin.com

So, here's the YouTube of last night's "Internet Media" segment from Costas Now. Special thanks go to Awful Announcing for pulling this together.

Wilbon Questions Your Credentials!

Hogs Haven: Front Page Posts found this 5/1/2008 on misterirrelevant.com

While we, along with every sports blogger in the ’sphere, await Awful Annoucing’s posting of the Buzz Bissinger insane tirade on Costas Now last night, let’s enjoy the intro to the segment : Wilbon: “Bloggers? What ...

Buzz Bissinger Freaks Out at Will Leitch

Dan Shanoff found this 4/30/2008 on sports.aol.com

Filed under: Featured Stories , The Word , Blogs H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Friday Night Lights , appeared on a panel tonight alongside Deadspin blogger Will Leitch on Bob Costas 's HBO show. It did ...

Buzz Bissinger Does Not Like Blogs

Gilbert posted 4/30/2008 from www.danshanoff.com

That was clear during Buzz Bissinger's freak-out on Costas Now (just now), attacking Will Leitch. The irony is that Will came across as the thoughtful one, and Buzz Bissinger -- self-appointed savior of "old media" -- came across as the unhinged nut. Points to Big Daddy Drew (aka "Balls Deep") and AJ Daulerio for the name-checks. Any pub is good pub!

More quick Bissinger thoughts

Mac Gs World found this 4/30/2008 on www.wearethepostmen.com

So, of course Buzz Bissinger’s little tirade — which should be making the Youtube rounds any minute now — has aroused a few passions here. First thought was anger. Second thought was incredulity. Third thought was sadness, or some ...

Leitch Entered the Bissinger Saw

Busted Coverage: Booze, Ladies And Football found this 4/30/2008 on macgsworld.blogspot.com

To be honest to my readers, I met Deadspin's founder Will Leitch a few months ago on his book tour. He was insightful, funny, and overall, a very cool guy. We shared some beers and heaters. I read Deadspin but not faithfully everyday. I just ...

A BRIEF STATEMENT ON BLOGGING: WHO WE (I) ARE

Dan Shanoff found this 4/30/2008 on www.everydayshouldbesaturday.com

Buzz Bissinger just ripped on bloggers, including Will Leitch, who had to sit there and take it because, once angered, no amount of reason would get through to the guy who wrote Friday Night Lights. Bissinger has no idea what blogs are about, ...

Buzz Bissinger, Will Leitch, and the White-Hot Flow of Opinion

runofplay posted 4/30/2008 from www.runofplay.com

H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Friday Night Lights, subjected Deadspin blogger Will Leitch to an incontinent tirade about the menace of sports blogging on Bob Costas’s HBO show last night. Was he holding blogs responsible for the very stupidity that's made people turn away from the mainstream media in the first place?

Buzz Bissinger vs. Will Leitch: The Day After

Ball Don't Lie found this 4/30/2008 on www.danshanoff.com

The lead of the usual Quickie post was getting too unwieldy with Bissinger updates, so I am breaking it into its own post : I should have led my Sporting News column today with the Buzz Bissinger thing, because that's all anyone who reads blogs is ...

The Bissinger Fall Out [Blogdome]

The Sports Oasis found this 4/30/2008 on deadspin.com

• Bissinger wigging out on a radio show a while back. Skip to about the 8:50 mark. [ 790 The Ticket ] • EDSBS gives a long rundown of this whole Costas Now thing. [ EDSBS ] • Of course, Shanoff's fired up about all this. [ Dan ...

Michelle Tafoya on Deadspin: 'It Disgusts Me' (But Talking About Men at Urinals Doesn't)

EPIC CARNIVAL | SPORTS NEWS WITH A TWIST found this 4/30/2008 on sports.aol.com

After last night's ranting and raving from Buzz Bissinger , you might think that the mainstream media might want to re-evaluate their feelings toward blogs. After all, respectable journalists don't want to be associated with the idiotic ramblings of ...

Bissinger and his fact checking

Hugging Harold Reynolds posted 5/1/2008 from huggingharoldreynolds.blogspot.com

Buzz Bissinger once accused Jim Thome of doing steroids because he was in a slump. How is that for journalistic integrity.

THT Live:Prayers Sometimes Get Answered

The Hardball Times found this 5/1/2008 on www.hardballtimes.com

You know, I don't think Buzz Bissinger has any legitimate insight about blogs. I take it personally when people like Bissinger and Costas excoriate blogs. I honestly have no interest in watching that video segment of Bissinger ranting on Will Leitch. Joe Posnanski's blog entry about the episode is good enough for me.

Hit and Run

Brew Crew Ball: Front Page Posts found this 5/1/2008 on futilityinfielder.com

"I think blogs are dedicated to cruelty, they’re dedicated to journalistic dishonesty." -- Honest Buzz Bissinger, best-selling author on "Costas Now" That blanket statement was the opening salvo fired on behalf of Tired Old Media on Tuesday ...

Let's Hit Rewind on Buzz Bissinger's Play Article

TheGrandHatching posted 5/1/2008 from www.firejoemorgan.com

"Maybe you've heard -- Buzz Bissinger is in the bloggy sports news ether today. Several people sent us Buzz's piece on Kerry Wood in the New York Times magazine Play from about a year ago. I read the article from start to finish. It's artfully written, evocative, unPlaschkely poetic -- and deliberately, wrongheadedly misleading. Buzz Bissinger, such a gifted wordsmith and storyteller, weaves a..."

Why Bissinger Had A Point.

The Big Lead found this 5/1/2008 on www.stopmikelupica.com

I come not to bury Bissinger, nor to praise him. I come to say, however, that he did have a point. (at this time I'd like to make it fully clear that this is Canadian DJM, not SML. angry letters should go this way .) Bissinger made it rather ...

Buzz Bitchinger: Why He Didn’t Major in Economics

The Sports Lounge found this 5/2/2008 on juicedsportsblog.com

Buzz Bissinger shows an utter lack of knowledge about the free market economy and the American ideal of freedom. Leitch Bissinger MITCHELL BLATT Buzz Bissinger debated Will Leitch yesterday about blogging. ( Video ) Bissinger, a ...

Buzz Bissinger Fails To Follow the KSK Style Guide

Hire Jim Essian! found this 5/2/2008 on kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com

Okay, so here’s a video clip (via the wondrous and newly outed Awful Announcing ) of Buzz Bissinger completely losing his shit on Will Leitch last night and quoting from one of my columns (Yeeeeahhhh, free publicity!!!). I hadn’t had a ...

The Inevitable Bissinger Post And Some House Cleaning

ESPN.com - True Hoop - Blog found this 5/2/2008 on hardwoodparoxysm.blogspot.com

Hello, party peoples. Okay, so, I've been involved in the mainstream vs. blogs debate . I got into the whole Cuban thing. I attended a game. I'm hip. Hoop, hoop. Dunk, dunk. And you're probably not surprised to discover that the Bissinger thing pissed ...

Bissinger reflects on tirade

Posted 5/6/2008 on SPORTS COUCH POTATO

Our friends at The Big Lead did an excellent follow-up interview with Buzz Bissinger just days after the Pulitzer Prize-winning author ripped sports blogs and went off on fellow guest Will Leitch in on an episode of HBO's "Costas Now." Bissinger, who during the televised forum on sports media said blogs "are the dumbing down of society" and told Deadspin.com founder Leitch he was ...

Buzz Bissinger: MSM Colleagues Supported Anti-Blog Rant -- Except Bob Costas

Posted 5/5/2008 on FanHouse

One of the questions some bloggers have asked in the six days since Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Buzz Bissinger launched into an anti-blog tirade on Bob Costas 's HBO show is: To what extent do others in the mainstream media agree with the content of Bissinger's anti-blog screed? I think Bissinger's opinion is shared by a large number of journalists, even if most journalists wouldn't ...

Bissinger/Leitch Dustup on BBDD

Posted 5/1/2008 on vorosmccracken.com

I have a new post up on Baseball Digest Daily about the verbal tirade Buzz Bissinger launched against Deadspin’s Will Leitch on Bob Costas’ HBO navel gavzing exercise the other night.

A Blogger's Perspective

Posted 5/1/2008 on Strike Zones and End Zones

So, I wrote this piece for the Huffington Post. It'll be on the site at some point today, but apparently Miley Cyrus's shoulder and American Idol are taking priority. I wanted to pass it along in the aftermath of the Bob Costas debacle. As the smoke clears (sort of) and I'm less emotional (had I written this yesterday, it would have read like a Bissinger tirade), it's becoming clear that

Bissinger Is Such a Buzz Killer

Posted 5/1/2008 on Eye On Sports Media

Athens, GA (April 30, 2008) - In watching the video of last night's live anti-blog tirade by Friday Night Lights author H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger on Costas NOW , my jaw dropped. Here was the boarding-school raised, Ivy League educated, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist teeing off on Will Leitch of Deadspin with enough foul-mouth profanity that a sailor might even blush. The blogosphere was abuzz ...

McErlain: Costas, Bissinger and the blind spot

Published 5/3/2008 on SportingNews.com NHL News and Exclusive Analysis

HBO host Bob Costas and author Buzz Bissinger tar bloggers with generalizations and fail to understand how using the internet in the best way furthers the cause of journalism.