I Urge You To Watch Costas Now

Personally, I can't hate on Costas, because he's good, he's smart, and he's from Syracuse. I'm sure there are others in the sports media community who feel the same way, but just don't say anything.

I know I'm a good writer, and no one is going to stop me from writing about what I love or enjoying the content on AGM written by all of you lovely people.

I'm an automatic dork if I write about the sports I like?

If you write poetry and prose, you're a "poet".

If you make music, you're a "Musician".

If you write a journal (or "log") on the web (or "web log"), you're a "journalist".

"Not all bloggers consider themselves journalists"???

Not all murderers consider themselves guilty either.

Call yourself whatever you want but if you keep a journal, you're a journalist.

This is Costas' - and all the other REAL journalists' - point.

People that don't realize what they are doing are trying to do something they don't realize how to do. And they are doing it shamefully, embarrassingly - and worse yet - anonymously with no real-life repercussions.

When I am at school, I am a journalist. I've been in the locker room with a mic in my hand, I've produced a television show, and that's what I eventually want to do, which is why I admire what Costas has done. There's a certain thrill involved in being able to tell people what went on, and having others rely on you to be accurate.

So there ya go. I'm a journalist. Happy?

By the way, if I become famous, I will embrace the blogosphere wholeheartedly because of the unique and entertaining content it provides.

It's ok to be naive and dream big dreams - it's a much greater talent to understand the realities you haven't encountered as being a likely possibility. The rest of the world is NOT like you or Armchair - most of the world is bullshit.

"If you become famous"? So what. You're gonna change who you are because other people know who you are?

what was his name...

If I become famous, and some anonymous cyberstalker talks about what a shitty job I'm doing, I'll take it with a grain of salt. Who said I was going to change who I was? The opinion of one guy shouldn't garner much attention, but when it's something that gets a lot of agreement from a lot of people, then I deserve to be called out on it.

Fortunately, I don't take myself very seriously. I take my work seriously, but if I make a dumbass mistake, I can laugh at it, fix it and move on.

The same right as every "blogger" - thanks for proving the point of the story.

Look. For every rule, there is an exception, and for every exception, there is a rule about to be made...

I'm not crushing anyone's dreams - quite the opposite. I'm showing the examples that most of the people that "blog" AREN'T dreaming of being good journalists, yet they have the same voice and an audience and are diminishing the value of journalism.

Across the "blogosphere", people who can't even spell are spewing mindless froth and believing in their minds that they are GOOD. They are hateful, they are crude and they are damaging reputations for what? Their own "fame"?

You have a culture of leeches, Leitches and scumsuckers THRIVING off of the filth and trash about people's personal lives WITH NO REPERCUSSIONS.

That's fine if you're not one of them, maybe you don't report the bullshit; but by extension and association - how are you NOT one of them?

Like I said in my first comment - if you are offended that Costas thinks it's wrong that bloggers can do whatever they want and say whatever they want with NO credibility, you're probably guilty.

Trent Reznor, Saul Williams and Radiohead seem to be imbracing it just fine...

I think the actions in Hollywood will be much more interesting...

It doesn't take a lot of capital to cut an album

I guess we're all just dorks in reality.

Time to separate the athletes from the rest of us.

Planet 1: Jockula

Then you get into the whole credibility thing. BostonDirtDogs.com once published a story about Nomar Garciaparra refusing to accept his 2004 Red Sox World Series ring. It turned out that the story was fabricated by someone in an effort to see just how loose DirtDogs was with their fact-checking.

You're right Rawb, when I wanna know some facts regarding current events, etc...i go to AP, Reuters, etc

But a lot of the news today isn't factual per se...they're rumors...

CNN practically reported the Fed rate cut of .25 yesterday as fact...except the fed hadn't released it yet. And While analysts are typically close if not dead on in the issue, they have a certain reponsibility to ensure the public understands the info as speculation (see the previous .5% rate cut, which CNN analysts inaccurately predicted as .75 to one full point)

But along those lines, they're reporting speculation...just like when people speculate when teams meet over trades...There's very few ways to know when a team is talking to another team beyond a few phone calls and it doesn't really matter...but people want to know if the pats are in talks to acquire this person and for what and with who...even if it turns out not to happen

Bloggers do this better

As far as Davis's point regarding opinions...I think there is a certain level of quality to high level writers that will probably take years to hash out...People like Bill Simmons...who, if nothing else, is an excellent writer (and blowhard who's wearing on my) are proving that quality writing skills and playing to the public will move you up

The old guard will, if nothing else, die off...and the new rising crop will come this way...at least until the next thing