Found June 22, 2008 on 120 Proof Ball:
Sadly, we were naive enough to think that we had been put out of our collective misery and Buzz Bissinger was exiled to some far away place where we'd no longer be subjected to his idiocy. And his idiocy, sadly enough, is what he's most willing to spread. Bissinger, if you recall, not long ago unleashed a tirade against the blogosphere, not to mention the First Amendment. Among the things he said was, in the ultimate moment of the pot calling the kettle black, that blogs were, "the complete dumbing down of society." Well, thank you to David Wharton of the Los Angeles Times. Thank you for bringing this memory back to those of us who blog. I couldn't believe my eyes this morning. Are sports blogs really front page material? It goes to show how obtuse sports media can be in the United States, when Russia defeated the Netherlands in Euro Cup Soccer, in one of the great sporting contests in recent memory, and they're relegated to a small blurb on page fiv...
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