Clearly Bissinger had an objective from the start and that was to steamroll Leitch. I agree with G – he came off looking pretty pathetic.

I grew up reading the newspaper with my morning cereal. But times have changed and technology has gotten better. Why wait until the morning to see all the scores when you can get it instantly online? Newspapers are just going to have to adapt, and they have to some extent by making their content available online.

Just like an old man bitter at the way things are “nowadays”, Bissinger and fellow newspaper writers are just worried that their craft is dying. Bissinger should be mad at readers – not guys like Leitch. Clearly the public wants to get their sports information differently than they did 10 years ago…

Old man yells at cloud.

What’s going on in the sports world is the same kind of upheaval that has happened in politics. Blogs do things that the traditional media will not touch. In some ways that can be bad, as most blogs do not have filters or editors, and many of the comments on some sites are retarded.

On the flip side, blogs truly open up the marketplkace of ideas. In politics, the networks have lost control of the storyline, and stories get broken, like Macaca and the US Attorney scandal, that never would have been addressed by the media.

The same thing is now happening in sports. ESPN, the networks and SI no longer rule the sports market. Local writers now have some real competition. Athletes can’t act like real assholes in their private lives and expect the media to cover for them.

Critics like Bissinger love to focus on a couple of obnoxious comments, while ignoring that the traditional media is also VERY flawed.

I was actually happy to see him so pissed off. He’s pathetic.