Recent content by baconboy

Shouldn't all media folks have to adhere to some sort of "established credentials" before being allowed into the press box? Why should these "standards" apply only to the "bloggers" of the world? Right now, those standards simply do not exist. The only standard that should matter, according...

You don't ... but if you're good and people like your stuff and you have 150K unique coming to your blog every month, then teams need to think about issuing credentials .. no matter how you started out. Nobody's saying issue credentials to every blogger. What theyr'e saying is that, if there's...

Like Huck, I'm asking the mods to look up the IPs and report here that they're not the same. It's really 'effin amazing that if someone around here offers a different opinion, they come under personal attacks such as this. They can't argue on the facts, so they throw out accusations that have...

Who's a blogger? Not me. The market works in every industry. Everyone must answer to the market. The last person in the world we wants to restrict freedom of the press is me. And, as usual, you can't grasp the concept on the table. I'm talking about self-regulation ... doing things to improve...

No. Poynter has no teeth. Like I said earlier, the NASD is a pretty good model. He helped bring about a lot of trust in the securities world, and helped weed out the people abusing the securities industry, while improving the entire industry's image. This is from its web site: About NASD As...

Well, I've only made a couple posts here and already realize SSM is a miserable curmudgeon. Listen, it's just an idea for discussion. The problem is obvious: people do not trust the media. We can pretend that's not the case, or we can try to talk about ways to improve the situation. I tossed...

This was borne of the dust-up I got mixed up in with my very first posts over in the "bloggers in the press box thread." But it's an entirely different topic and deserves it's own thread. I also believe it's a very big issue that could do a lot to help the profession: industry-wide self...

Re: "Lick" as an offensive term, you're ****ting me I draw the line at "Trojans pound Beavers" Best headline ever was in the Boston Globe about 10 years ago, following a Bruins-Sabres game: "Any way you measure it, Buffalo's Peca is big" I think the dude lost his job. I would have given him...

First: I don't know ... I'd ask the paper. I suppose they could fire me if they wanted. That's their decision. But they could also look at me as a prime revenue opportunity if they wanted, too. Again, their decision. Second: I couldn't disagree more strenuously with Zagoshe's use of the term...

First, I don't have a blog ... I run a website, a brand concept built around the web ... i tried to explain the difference earlier, but that also fell on deaf ears. We are working on multimedia. But right now it's essentially a web-based product. Second: yes. I run the business (which is much...

That's legit ... clearly, it wasn't a scientific study. But I guess my point was that I was surprised by the results. But I guess to people on the outside, the "media" is anywhere you get your info.

By the way, the notion that I have to defend myself because I work in a medium some of you fail to comprehend is YOUR problem, not mine, and indicative of the problem with newspapers these days. It's like the French classicists shunning the impressionists. It's really no different. Listen, I...

Looks like you fell asleep at the keyboard, there. Must be the mark of a true professional. Listen, you can hate the "bloggers." I've agreed there are a lot of punks out there. But there are some very good ones, too, and the best ones are winning the battle. Don't like it? Too bad. Maybe you...

Hey Huck, Thanks for the kind words. As I said in my original post on this site (earlier in this thread), I have a foot in each world. I'm a staff writer at a big-city daily ... but I have a foot firmly planted in the "blog" world (more an alternative sports site than a blog, which is a...

Are you talking about yourself here? It's not clear.