Costas Now Airs Tonight, 10 P.M. Eastern. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? [Well Here Goes]

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Top 10 Things That Need To Jump Over A Shark
Published 4/30/2008 by Truth About It at truthaboutit.net
... hits of information in next to real time. Is this a good thing? A bad thing? You can debate both sides. The town hall meeting concentrated mostly on the negative side-effects. While not all outlets can be considered guilty, there are certainly no innocents. Specifically focusing on the internet segment (since this is a blog and the segment mostly concentrated on blogs)....featuring journalist Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights), blogger Will Leitch (Deadspin [preview here]) and player Braylon Edwards (Cleveland Browns): The problem I ...

Friday Night Lights Out for In-the-Dark Buzz
Published 4/30/2008 by David at Scott's Shots
By David Scott Boston Sports Media Watch The irony of Will Leitch’s Tuesday afternoon posting’s title promoting his appearance on HBO’s special edition of “Costas Now”, can not be overlooked. Just about everything went wrong: For Bob Costas and Pulitzer Prize-winner H.G. “Buzz” Bissinger and, to a lesser extent, HBO. Not to mention hundreds of thousands of potential viewers who were deprived of a serious discussion on how ...

The Pointless War Between Bloggers and “Real” Sports Journalists Continues
Published 5/1/2008 by Brian Kamenetzky at SportsHubLA
... off, and overall I think he soft shoed the idea that even when they’re being funny, DS can get pretty rough with those subjected to their treatment. But at the same time, I felt bad for him. First, he was set up by everything from the video introduction to the roundtable to Costas’ personal welcome as the bad guy, the irresponsible face of new sports media with neither the class nor the skill of his ink-stained predecessors. That’s not fair. Earlier in the day, Leitch correctly forecasted he’d be on the show as “The Spokesperson for The Internet,” which isn’t fair, either. ...

A Blogger Blogging About Blogs
Published 5/1/2008 by Andy Goldstein at RotoRob
... I was floored. I have defended fantasy sports to family members, friends, and even while calling into other sports talk stations, but this was an ambush and I’m sure I didn’t exactly make the best counter-arguments. In this area, I feel for Leitch. He went on knowing he probably should be on his heels, but he couldn’t prepare for venomous, nonsensical rhetorical questions. ...