News Costas' segment on blogs vs newspapers

irishjayhawk · 05-09-2008, 12:26 AM

Sorry if this is a repost but I just saw it and had to pass it on.

http://deadspin.com/385770/bissinger-vs-leitch

I cannot believe the lunacy of that panel. Edwards was alright but he needs to realize that sensationalism sells.

All I know is that if I was Leitch, I'd have blown up way before it. Yet, he kept his cool and actually refuted about every point.

**007** · 05-09-2008, 12:53 AM

Can Bissinger be any more unprofessional?

leviw · 05-09-2008, 12:55 AM

Can't watch that without reading this:

http://thebiglead.com/?p=5684

ClevelandBronco · 05-09-2008, 12:57 AM

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Originally Posted by irishjayhawk

Sorry if this is a repost but I just saw it and had to pass it on.

http://deadspin.com/385770/bissinger-vs-leitch

I cannot believe the lunacy of that panel. Edwards was alright but he needs to realize that sensationalism sells.

All I know is that if I was Leitch, I'd have blown up way before it. Yet, he kept his cool and actually refuted about every point.

Great stuff. Thanks for posting it.

A little more than 15 years ago when I was still working at a daily newspaper I argued that the internet was going to kill newspapers during our own careers.

No one there at the time was willing to listen to me. They laughed off the possibility.

I'm sorry for my friends who are still in the old game, but they were F@CKING WRONG! Did you hear that clearly, you moronic fossils?

You were F@CKING WRONG and I WAS RIGHT!

But I'm not happy about it.

irishjayhawk · 05-09-2008, 01:21 AM

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Q: There were many, many interesting reactions to the HBO special, but it was perhaps this one from award-winning KC Star columnist Joe Posnanski that caught our eye: “If Heinz was young today, if he was 25 years old in 2008, or 30 years old, you know what he would be doing? Yeah. He would be WRITING A FREAKING BLOG. Of course he would. If you love to write, if you want to be heard, if you feel like you have something to say, this is what you do … If Heinz was young, he would be writing words on the Internet just like everyone else, and he would probably have his own blog, and it would be wonderful, and cranky old people would be screaming about Heinz in pajamas.” At the risk of dealing with a hypothetical … do you believe this to be the case? Or would Heinz have been “noticed” during his college years and be at a newspaper/magazine already?

I think Joe said that because he blogs now and doesn’t want to piss off bloggers off (trust me on this on the basis of experience, he is smart not to want to piss off bloggers). I doubt W. C. Heinz would be blogging. My educated guess is that he would be writing for a newspaper or a magazine, because some people actually still do that. And he would have been discovered during his college days or some days or somewhere. The whole thing about what Heinz would be doing or not doing seems basically silly because blogs did not exist when he was in the business and the man is dead and it is the legacy of what he left behind that should be honored, not some open-ended hypothetical.

, could there be a worse answer. JoPo writes that because he doesnt' want to piss of bloggers.

Bill S Preston · 05-09-2008, 02:18 AM

Newspapers suck. They cost money, and they get ink on my fingers.

**Mr. Flopnuts** · 05-09-2008, 02:35 AM

Bissinger was a real piece of shit in that video. It was cool though, because I LOVE watching adults have temper tantrums.

Ultra Peanut · 05-09-2008, 05:28 AM

JoePo's blog is a perfect example of why blogs are in no way inferior to newspapers. It's about the person writing the material, not the format in which the material is consumed. 95% of blogs are awful, and 95% of sportswriters have no business being published.

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Originally Posted by Guru

Can Bissinger be any more unprofessional?

**** YOU YOU MOTHER****ING PIECE OF SHIT

YOU AND YOUR COHORTS ARE ****ING PROFANE AND I HATE YOU ASSHOLES AND EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR

Ultra Peanut · 05-09-2008, 05:45 AM

By the way, what I love about blogs is when they provide a check on those pompous media types who refuse to acknowledge reality.

mikey23545 · 05-09-2008, 05:58 AM

Bissinger sees his highly paid, cushy job going down down the toilet because some 20 year old writing a blog is more entertaining than his sorry ass.

What a crybaby mother****er. I guess they taught him about everything but freedom of expression in that journalism school he went to.

Hammock Parties · 05-09-2008, 07:09 AM

Bissinger is a real life blogtard.

Rooster · 05-09-2008, 07:16 AM

Bloggers are ghey.

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