OWS welcomes you to the weekend with the weekly WTTW post!
We end the week with a nice shot at blogger (and technology in general) from The Boston Globe’s Dan Shaughnessy. I agree with the point about accountability. However, is there really a reputable “blog style” website that is still anonymous? I thought we were getting passed this “blogger” thing. I guess not.
[via The Boston Globe]
Michael Wilbon is currently in the midst of a mud-slinging beef with another DC-area writer Dan Steinberg. Read all about it (with some apparent biases) here.
I can sum this whole thing up in on sentence. Wilbon said D.C. is a “terrible” sports town, while Steinberg disagrees.
Magary (at Deadspin) finds Wilbon to generally act like a smug prick to the common man. I don’t personally know either Steinberg or Wilbon. I’ve said maybe a dozen words to Wilbon at a conference or other sporting event. With that said, I wouldn’t be surprised if he is an asshole.
The thing is, Wilbon is likely right — D.C. really does kind of suck as a sports town. Many inhabitant of the District aren’t from there. In the long-run most could give a hoot about the Nationals, for example. But Wilbon did say one outright dumb thing during this whole thing. Wilbon, whose ritzy ass is said to be paid in the area of $8M by ESPN, stated that L.A. is a better sports town than D.C. What an awful example to use. L.A.? Really? I find those two cities to be two sides of the same coin. They both suck when it comes to sports fandome.
RDM welcomes you to the weekend. It’s a good WTTW!
How have I not seen this before? Have a great weekend.
