Even if you don’t care about sports, sports blogs or even, God bless you, Buzz Bissinger (pictured) — but you do care about new media — you’d do well to check out the tete-a-tete between Bissinger and Will Leitch that aired on Costas Now. Here’s why: Lots of times, people don’t believe us (hell, we don’t even believe us) when we talk about the ways traditional print journalists who have not embraced The Blog Age feel smited, spat-upon, passed over, and in the words of the great Walter Sobchak, like they’re they only ones who give a fuck about the rules. Well, here is your evidence. Buzz Bissinger snivels. Buzz Bissinger curses. Buzz Bissinger blows gasket after gasket, as if he’s been waiting five years for Bob Costas to call him up so he can beat the shit out of some poor blogger on national TV. It’s not pretty, and here’s the thing: Buzz still loses, miserably. Even with all that self-righteous rage. And not because he’s wrong about the unnecessary cruelty of the Internet or the idea that bloggers should have good old fashioned journalism chops. He’s right about all that. But the fact is, BUZZ BISSINGER IS A SCARED LITTLE MAN WHO SOMEHOW CANNOT DISTINGUISH BETWEEN BLOGGERS AND COMMENTERS AND HOW ONE BLOG DIFFERS FROM ANOTHER. And so he comes off like a luddite asshole, and loses the day for all concerned, right and proper though his key points may be.
Thank your lucky stars this jerkoff isn’t writing about your city anymore, Philadelphia. Times have changed, but woe betide the man who has not.
Deadspin: Costas Vs. Leitch
Previously: Buzz Bissinger Continues To Taunt Philly Media Not As Awesome As Himself With Nothing But Sweet Memory

This entry was posted on Thursday, May 1st, 2008 at 11:08 am.