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Buzz Bissinger revisits thoughts, message on sports blogs

Sports Crackle Pop! | Sept. 22, 2009 8:00 a.m.
Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger is promoting his new book, Shooting Stars, co-written with LeBron James, and in so doing, he recently conducted an interview with Sports Crackle Pop! In it, he addressed his well-publicized comments last year on the nature of sports blogs. "I think my message got through to some degree," Bissinger says. "There was a story in the LA Times in which various blogs, because of what I said on Costas Now, were thinking much more about issues of fairness and responsibility. Since the incident, I have become familiar with some sports blogs that are quite good and well-written. But I still maintain the basic thrust of what I said, that most blogs, in particular the comments, are vindictive, nasty and gutless since few ever give their real name."
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