Why do sportswriters resent blogs?

another example is the "objective" pjstar columnist, in his Inside the Lines blog, going off on the recruit who rescinded his commitment just because the columnist felt slighted by the kid. Totallly out of line.

 

I'll give you a good reason why sportswriters hate amateur bloggers.
I wrote a piece a while back about a major figure in sports trying to use his power and influence to create a new enterprise. I termed it this figure's "latest idea." So some clown blogger picks up on the word "idea" and claims he has been writing about this "idea" for several years and why doesn't Twoback do his research and give him the credit he's due for coming up with it.
It wasn't a new concept, just something that had been around and now might be applied to a different sport.
Now, he could have written something like, "See what a great idea I told you about 5 years ago? This big-deal guy in sports is now pursuing it." Nope. That's not how it works with bloggers.

 

http://www.culturecloud.com/Articles/00002094/Love_Comes_in_Sports.aspx

Not to self-promote, but the reason I had McErlain on the brain is because I interviewed him as part of a series of Q&As I'm doing with a startup web site I've gotten involved in. Anyway, he's got some interesting things to say here about blogging and journalism.

 

Dahlberg's piece was a column, not an objective news story on the place of fighting in the NHL. And that's a major distinction bloggers fail to make: A column you disagree with does not make the writer a poor journalist, and a column you agree with is not, by definition, a reflection of talent.

 

I mean this in the most helpful way possible: the font on your web page is too small for normal people to read an entire article in. And it's even worse in italics, which you start out with. The only way I'm going to read that, and I will, is cut and paste it into Word and increase the font. Seriously.

 

Or, you know, you can hold down CTRL and hit +.

 

I didn't, but even if I did, most readers would not, thus it's still a problem.

 

CTRL-plus doesn't work for me...

 

Wow, I didn't know about the CTRL+ thing. Cool.

 

Thanks for the word. For some reason, in Mozilla it looks fine, but Explorer it looks tiny until I CTRL+.

 

I hear ya, but considering how increasingly difficult it is to get things to look the same for a public with greater variances in browser preference and screen resolution, it helps to know user-end stuff when things don't match up. It's pretty much IE's fault, since Mozilla is better at interpreting HTML precisely.

Incidentally, do any beat writers have good correspondence with independent bloggers of the same team?

 

I have an L.A. Kings blog that I do part-time at our newspaper. It's nothing more than a distraction for an extremely long season for us.

http://www.insidesocal.com/hockeywood/