Mr. Smith, of course, is a dear friend on bloggers everywhere, and will be sorely missed. Sadly, we’ll now have to check Smith off the list of a seemingly growing number of dinosaur media types who have lashed out at folks like us over the past year. Read more…
The internecine battle between old and new media wages on even within unwieldy media conglomerates.
Such a set-to is currently going on at THE WASHINGTON POST, with Pardon the Interruption hosts and still occasional journalists Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon trading barbs with and now threatening bodily harm upon The Post’s own sports blogger, Dan Steinberg. Read more…
Hat tips to Michael David Smith at the AOL FANHOUSE for finding this USA TODAY piece by its sports media columnist, Michael Heistrand, in which NBC’s Sunday Night Football sideline reporter Andrea Kremer and producer Fred Gaudellitake shots at ESPN for cutting back the roles of sideline reporters Suzy Kolber and Michele Tafoya on Monday Night Football next year.
It’s worth noting that both Kremer and Gaudelli worked for ESPN before heading to NBC, but they take the Four-Letter to task — Kremer saying that the network’s demotion of Kolber and Tafoya sets back women, with Gaudelli adding that it’s more proof of ESPN being better with studio programs than live sporting events.
Neil Best of NEWSDAY has wonderful news for those of you who delight in Tony Kornheiser on “Monday Night Football”: He’ll probably be back for the 2008 season.
Hmmm, isn’t that what Joe Theismann was thinking after last season, too? Sadly though, it does appear that Tony K. will return in his role as mindless irritant in the MNF booth. At least if you believe ESPN exec Norby (!) Williamson.
SPEECHLESS - STEPHEN A-1 WORST SPORTS ANNOUNCER: It’s well-known how importantly Stephen A. Smith feels about the blogosphere. Now the internet masses have been led astray by the “untrained writers” once more.
WITH LEATHER shares the important results of an important poll offered up by AOL FANHOUSE, and Stephen is A-1 on top of the hot list.
Too bad for Screamin’ A, it’s recognition for being America’s Worst Sports Announcer. The blogger basher was able to beat out such cringe-inducing competition as Lee Corso, Shannon Sharpe, and in the tourney topper, Monday Night mouth Tony Kornheiser.
COULD KORNHEISER BE CALLING IT QUITS ON MON. NIGHTS? Tony Kornheiser may be taking his ball and going home, as he’s rumored to be quitting “Monday Night Football“:
DEADSPIN hears via DCRTV that the “MNF” boothster and Joe Theismann nemesis may hang up the headphones after this season.Korny apparently wants to devote more time to his ‘PTI’ program on ESPN, and get ready for his new local morning radio show in Washington.
