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Author Uses Costas Show to Blast Bloggers

Posted May 1, 08 6:31 PM CDT in Business,  Technology,  Arts & Living,  Gossip,  Sports 

(Newser) – The déclassé world of sports bloggers infiltrates the vaunted mainstream media today with New York Times sports media expert Richard Sandomir's take on Tuesday's episode of HBO's Costas Now. The live "town hall" setting included a segment on sports bloggers that quickly devolved into a tirade by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Buzz Bissinger, best known as the author of Friday Night Lights.

"Bissinger entered in an extreme state of annoyance and outrage," Sandomir writes, and proceeded to take it out on Deadspin editor Will Leitch—who wasted little time in undercutting Bissinger's argument by posting a well-reasoned take on the incident on his dreaded blog. "His distaste for Leitch and his ilk was communicated with scornful body language," but in the end, Sandomir laments, Bissinger's "attitude subverted a reasonable point."

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Director Peter Berg, left, shown with author Buzz Bissinger, in Dallas, Texas, in September 2004, says the movie "Friday Night Lights," captures the spirit of Bissinger's book.   (KRT Photos)
H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger at the premiere of the film adaptation of his book "Friday Night Lights."   (Getty Images)
"Friday Night Lights" author H.G. "Buzz" Bissinger speaks at the University of Massachusetts on Nov. 14, 2007.   (ericathas)
Dick Ebersol, Al Michaels, Bob Costas and Cris Collinsworth, from left, attend the NBC All-Star Party, Tuesday, July 17, 2007, in Beverly Hills, Calif.   (AP Photo/Phil McCarten)
Bob Costas, host of HBO's "Costas Now."   (Getty Images)
Will Leitch, editor of Deadspin.com.   (HarperCollins)
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