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]]> By: PostmanE http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2006/06/06/lalala-not-listening-to-you-ombudsman/#comment-295 PostmanE Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:57:24 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2006/06/06/lalala-not-listening-to-you-ombudsman/#comment-295 I would disagree (with the idea that reporting = journalism) simply because "reporting" is a relatively abstract term. For sports reporting, I would argue that any respectable blog does about the same amount of background work that any respectable beat reporter does. The difference is that bloggers don't get to stand around in the locker room/press box, eat free food, and sweatily huddle shoulder to shoulder around athletes as they murmur non-answers into 30 silver digital recorders. Of course, there are plenty of idiot bloggers out there (hopefully I'm not self-referencing here) that ruin the rep for those who do intelligent, thoughtful, fact-based sports reporting/commentary. But there are plenty of Jay Marriotti's and Skip Baylesses in the world too, who do little but watch games from home and write 800-word crapfests about what they see. So the idea that newspapers, magazines, and ESPN have some sort of monopoly on journalistic respectablity is inherently false, just as the idea that bloggers run free with little or no rules to guide them. It's a balance of both, and both attitudes permeate both sides of the coin. And yes, ESPN does suck. Hard. Both on Roger's Clemens' testicles, and at journalism at large. I would disagree (with the idea that reporting = journalism) simply because “reporting” is a relatively abstract term. For sports reporting, I would argue that any respectable blog does about the same amount of background work that any respectable beat reporter does. The difference is that bloggers don’t get to stand around in the locker room/press box, eat free food, and sweatily huddle shoulder to shoulder around athletes as they murmur non-answers into 30 silver digital recorders.

Of course, there are plenty of idiot bloggers out there (hopefully I’m not self-referencing here) that ruin the rep for those who do intelligent, thoughtful, fact-based sports reporting/commentary. But there are plenty of Jay Marriotti’s and Skip Baylesses in the world too, who do little but watch games from home and write 800-word crapfests about what they see. So the idea that newspapers, magazines, and ESPN have some sort of monopoly on journalistic respectablity is inherently false, just as the idea that bloggers run free with little or no rules to guide them. It’s a balance of both, and both attitudes permeate both sides of the coin.

And yes, ESPN does suck. Hard. Both on Roger’s Clemens’ testicles, and at journalism at large.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2006/06/06/lalala-not-listening-to-you-ombudsman/#comment-294 Kevin Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:43:03 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2006/06/06/lalala-not-listening-to-you-ombudsman/#comment-294 But ESPN still sucks...except for letting me watch Roger Clemens pitch in single A last night...I couldn't have asked for anything more. When his son handed him the ball on the mound, I hugged my Harold Reynolds doll and shed a tear. But ESPN still sucks…except for letting me watch Roger Clemens pitch in single A last night…I couldn’t have asked for anything more. When his son handed him the ball on the mound, I hugged my Harold Reynolds doll and shed a tear.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2006/06/06/lalala-not-listening-to-you-ombudsman/#comment-293 Kevin Wed, 07 Jun 2006 20:41:34 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2006/06/06/lalala-not-listening-to-you-ombudsman/#comment-293 I think it has to do with that whole reporting thing...who knows? I think it has to do with that whole reporting thing…who knows?

]]> By: PostmanE http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2006/06/06/lalala-not-listening-to-you-ombudsman/#comment-284 PostmanE Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:01:05 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2006/06/06/lalala-not-listening-to-you-ombudsman/#comment-284 Not even going to go there, though I love the idea that ESPN and newspapers have a monopoly on journalistic respectability. That seems logical. Not even going to go there, though I love the idea that ESPN and newspapers have a monopoly on journalistic respectability. That seems logical.

]]> By: Kevin http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2006/06/06/lalala-not-listening-to-you-ombudsman/#comment-281 Kevin Tue, 06 Jun 2006 18:35:45 +0000 http://www.wearethepostmen.com/2006/06/06/lalala-not-listening-to-you-ombudsman/#comment-281 Respectable journalism? Say the people who have a blog. Respectable journalism? Say the people who have a blog.

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