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Wilbon Questions Your Credentials!
By Chris Mottram | April 30, 2008
While we, along with every sports blogger in the ’sphere, await Awful Annoucing’s posting of the Buzz Bissinger insane tirade on Costas Now last night, let’s enjoy the intro to the segment:
Wilbon: “Bloggers? What are their credentials?” Jesus fucking Christ. This is really simple, you dense, out-of-touch, holier than thou dinosaur: You DO NOT need credentials to a) be a fan, b) have an opinion on sports. Blogs combine those two elements to create something just as valid — if not, more so — than anything Wilbon’s done in, oh, I don’t know, my lifetime. The journalism degree hanging on your wall does not mean your thoughts on sport are more important or worthy or whatever.
And yeah, the sports blogosphere is just like the wild west. Except with keyboards instead of six-shooters and parent’s basements instead of brothels.
More on this later both here and at TSB. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a copy of “Three Nights in August” that requires burning.
UPDATE: Read my 1,000 word manifesto over at The Sporting Blog, along with various other inspirational words from Spencer “Orson Swindle” Hall.
Topics: Anger!, Blog Stuffs |
8 Responses to “Wilbon Questions Your Credentials!”
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April 30th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
Why Michael Wilbon — or Buzz Bissinger or Braylon Edwards, for that matter — was presented by Costas Now as an online sports media expert is beyond me.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
I don’t buy SI anymore because by the time they come to my house they are old news. I read blogs, updated multiple times a day and they are free. How’s that for credentials.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Wilbon has officially become a parody of himself. Let’s summarize. It’s ok for Wilbon, to actively seek new outlets for expressing his opinions about sports (tv & radio) when those mediums were developing, yet its not ok for anyone else to take advantage of other mediums to do the same thing now.
April 30th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
I actually just finished earning an associate degree in Writing Really Pointless Stuff On The Internet, so I feel like none of this applies to me.
(Although it’s particularly frustrating, as I’ve wanted to scream in Bissinger’s face about how overwrought and ponderous Friday Night Lights was for years now. Makes it upsetting that he’s gotten on the aggressive first.)
April 30th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
I would like to enter some witty banter into this discussion but I need to locate/read some W.C. Heinz sports columns first. I hear Boxing and Horse Racing are popular.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
Wilbon does a chat on WAPO.com.
Of course he’s an internet expert.
April 30th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
wilbons a fag
April 30th, 2008 at 11:26 pm
So what happens when a person, say me for example, has a degree and training in journalism, has been published in newspapers and magazines, but realizes the impact and appeal of blogging?
Oh well, guess its back to the basement, in search of those elusive credentials…