Bob Costas Hates Me
… Some interesting back and forth on Bob Costas’ unkind words for bloggers that we discussed yesterday. Costas may well have had a good point about how the ability to weigh in anonymously on a subject leads to all sorts of abuses of that privilege, but his intellectual elitist attitude towards an entire community falls flat. I don’t know how you could read his full comments linked to in the original piece and not see them specifically and quite insultingly as a slam to sports bloggers. …
I guess Costas is insulted by our temerity in believing that our views are equal to those who he considers his intellectual equals. The idea that the writings of sports journalists are somehow defiled when non-professionals weigh in on them is just laughable. We’re not talking the Magna Carta or Solzhenitsyn here, Bob. We’re talking about some journalist’s view on who should be the fifth starter for our team. …
And here’s a link to the Miami Herald article, Sports bloggers weave a tangled web
Geez, Bob. I used to like you, but now that I know you just want me to shut up and listen to what the Real Journalists have to say ….
There is certainly a lot of bad writing (uninformed, vulgar, libelous, etc.) going on in BlogLand. But there’s a lot of good stuff, too. Sports, non-sports, whatever. Costas condemns it all. I always considered him a Renaissance Man for his intelligence and wide range of interests. But alas. He is close-minded and petty. And he leaves me no choice:
I have to reject and denounce Bob Costas.
