Add CBS broadcaster Jim Nantz to the legions of mainstream media members who don't like blogs.Asked in an interview with Dan Fleschner if he saw Buzz Bissinger's infamous anti-blog screed, Nantz said that he read about it, and added:
I have to admit, I'm so far out of the loop on the blogosphere, I really don't partake in that. I know that it's got a huge following. On the few occasions that I have gone or been introduced to it and checked out what's been written, maybe about my world, it's usually so vile and vicious that I shut it down after a minute or two. ...Nantz doesn't say which blogs he finds to be vile and vicious, but I would bet that if he read more blogs, and stopped and thought about it a little bit, he would realize that there's nothing inherently vile and vicious about blogs, and that there's plenty of vile and vicious stuff on CBS. There is good content and bad on blogs, just as there is good content and bad on network television.
I really appreciated Buzz Bissinger -- I read he was a little ashamed of his level of anger -- but I completely understood where he was coming from.
