Does Bob Costas know what a blogger is?
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The Hardball Times found this 3/14/2008 on www.hardballtimes.com [flag] |
Some recent comments by Bob Costas in a Miami Herald column are just the latest in the mainstream media bashing bloggers. What has always bugged me and was pointed out by Craig Calcaterra in the BTF thread discussing the article is why commentators like Costas seem to lack the ability to distinguish between bloggers and sports fans who comment on the Internet.
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The Media Circus
Published 3/19/2008 at JoeSportsFan.com
... In his comments, Costas users the term "blog," but actually rants about people voting on ESPN.com polls and people who comment on on newspaper sites, two things which are just, well, not blogging at all. Ideally, commentators would actually distinguish between good and bad blogs—I'm sure Costas wouldn't like me to lump him in with, say, Stephen A. Smith. But comparing blogs to people voting on Internet polls is like comparing columnists to comedians. – Bryan Tsao, Hardball Times ...
I hope Bob Costas wasn't talking about me. I write a St. Louis Cardinals blog based out of Albuquerque (www.redbirdblog.com). Not out of my mom's basement of course. Very few homes in New Mexico have basements.
Anyway, Bob is one of the smartest sports journalists out there. Just ask him. So if he says bloggers are "pathetic, get-a-life losers," it must be true.