Costas Town Hall

We have a winner.

 

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Anyone watching this?

Buzz Bissinger just chewed through Will Leitch. There's nothing left but a hank of hair and some shirt buttons.

 

Strahan crushed Chris Russo.

 

I think he came across as a little wild-eyed and bitter old guy... Facially like Lewis Black meets John Malkovich... but his points were solid.

I just think his presentation was a little ... frothy.

Braylon is one smooth cat.

 

the only segment i saw in its entirety was the blogs one. braylon edwards was the only one who came off good. leitch was ok, coherent at least, but he had trouble getting his points across; bissinger did tear through leitch, but he was acting like an idiot, making sweeping generalizations ("who's better at writing sports, w.c. heinz or big daddy drew on deadspin?" as if anyone could argue that) and half-assed arguments. he read a few vulgar comments from the commentators, completely out of context. he basically didn't get that deadspin isn't trying to replace newspapers. buzz's first letter to the editor was a missive to mad magazine for daring to impugn richard nixon.

costas was obviously biased against blogs and the internet culture. the video preceding the discussion was good in that it had the firejoemorgan guy, but they relied too much on celebs like wilbon to represent all reporters and sound bites decrying the end of journalism as we know it.

if they cared about real dialogue between real journalists, they wouldn't just put on celebrity journalists like albom and mariotti, they'd have working journalists like posnaski and gordon edes and paul sullivan and ed bouchette. but those guys actually have to work and aren't "names".

 

Saw the post about Strahan crushing Russo. Can anyone go into detail about what was said?

 

How to dress up as goofy characters in a Pepsi commercial.

 

He levied a bunch of criticisms at Russo and he had no response.

He centered on an interview where M&MD blew sunshine up his ass for the interview, and as soon as he got off the phone was ripped up and down the wall.

He came across as calm and reasoned.

Not that Russo was an ass... he simply had no answers to Strahan's criticism.

 

Whitlock properly crushed Kellen Winslow Sr.'s moronic comments. Point by point.

Whitlock, hated as he is here, is tremendous.