Welcome to the wild west...

Bob Costas actually called the blogosphere the "wild west of the internet." Not only did he use blogosphere w/o laughing he further guaranteed his idiocy by calling it the wild west. I have HBO through the dorm (hahaha, what.a.loser.) so I actually got to catch this piece live last night, link at the end. I couldn't believe it but at the end of the segment I was actually pissed. Since I've had to study Civ Pro all day, which sucks hardcore balls, I'm going to rant like a little bitch about the CostasNow segment. Let me start out by saying Buzz* and Costas came off as absolute idiots, pure and simple. They can't see the difference between the blog itself and the comments? Really?

Buzz also goes off on blogs for lacking journalistic integrity yet laces his comments with a large amount of profanity. I'm not against a well placed fuck but not when you are bashing someone else for lacking integrity. Buzz then goes on to bash Deadspin, and blogs as a whole, due to one post. Nicely done Buzz, you just bashed blogs because of a single post from one blog. Killer logic Buzz. He also bashed blogs for lacking fact finding yet couldn't remember what Big Daddy Drew's name was. He repeatedly called him "Big Daddy Balls" and "Balls Deep." Big Daddy Balls is a sweet name but where the fuck was he getting Balls Deep? Good job on improper citation there too Buzz.

What is the deal with journalistic integrity anyway? You aren't a doctor. You aren't a lawyer.** You are a fucking journalist. You made it through the absolute easiest schooling possible. The idea that bloggers shouldn't blog because they didn't go through the proper process education is ridiculously. I would trust an engineer with giving me an opinion then an english major. Add in the fact that you are giving your opinion about sports. You aren't covering some incredible historical happening, you are telling me what happened during the White Sox game. Costas tried to use the people who covered Watergate to the established sports media. He wasn't joking. To tell the truth I take the most out of commentators and writers who actually played the game more than the opinions of some dork who went to school to write about a game. Why should I care what Skip Bayless thinks is going to happen in the next Lakers game?

Buzz also continually discusses the "talent" of established sports writers. Dude, you wrote Friday Night Lights not the Catcher in the Rye. I absolutely refuse to say someone is talented when their job is to tell me what happened during a game. I would be ok with ESPN just giving me scores. I don't really care what the feel of the crowd was when the Bulls were getting crushed. Most of the time when people write long articles on a sporting event I just skip it. This is not to say though that I think there is no talent whatsoever in the established media. The guys behind Game of Shadows were talented. The book got points across extremely well and kept my interest no problem. They also had to go through an unbelievable investigation in order to write the book. This is not to be said of the vast majority of sports stories. Good job Jay Mariotti, you just got a 22 year old kid to give you some breaking piece of information. Well done.

One last quick point, what is with the older crowd's love affair with the newspaper? I understand that at one point it was your only source of news but come on, welcome to the joys of modern technology. I keep hearing Wilbon bitch on PTI about how sad he is to see the end of the newspaper. I was really sad to see the end of cellophane but Saran Wrap was just the superior product. Move on. Society changes. Maybe newspapers shouldn't have decided to spring up in every possible area or they should have made some better plans for the future. The idea of someone being smarter due to their reading the newspaper was once a prominent thought but now it would seemingly be the complete opposite. Why would someone wait around until the morning to find out some important piece of news? With that said, I still read the paper if I'm home. I do enjoy the Trib but would I use it as my only source of news? Never. I understand that this is a disjunctive mess but I was pissed and just wanted to see what you guys thought.

*Buzz? This is only an acceptable name if you can't yet spell your name or if you are a character in Toy Story.
**Take me out of the idea of legal integrity.

http://deadspin.com/385770/bissinger-vs-leitch?autoplay=true