awww...Did the poor little innocent sports journalist get his feelings hurt...
...J/K...this guy is actually pretty good.
I agree with much of it and will only comment on the parts I do not.
If Mr. Zemek thinks people like Mark May and Trevie boy are not out there to stir the pot and that ESPiN isn't in the business to produce the exact venom he denounces, he's wrong. (What news show was just exposed for telling it's guests to "act angry and emotional" for better ratings?) Look at how Coach Holtz comments on the games and contrast that with the ESPiN instigators. He is respectful to both team's coaches and players. Unfortunately that probably means Coach Holtz won't be around very long. And Mr. Zemek's whole dismissal of the "East Coast Elitist" attitude or maybe more appropriately said, "Urban Centric Elitist" attitude, which is completely and blatantly obvious in all of journalism, shows he may need to look a little deeper at his colleagues (Bernie Goldberg blew that wide open. We are and always have been "fly over" country to most of these people). When I see journalists start to deal with these issues (NYTimes as an example of a baseless and fact less hit piece against tOSU), maybe then he can expect a little less venom. When a profession, whose sole currency is trust, honors men like Dan Rather instead of shunning him, we are hard pressed to not scorn and ridicule the practitioners of that profession. When journalism as a profession has sunk so low and lost so much of it's credibility through provable example after provable example, Mr. Zemek may be pointing his finger in the wrong direction.
Mr. Zemek also needs to understand that us "commoners" have a way of responding to garbage from journalists now. They used to be insulated from any anger they created. This is only bad for the journalists. It certainly is not bad for me, as a "commoner". If he doesn't like it, too bad, I do.
Now, Mr. Zemek, grow some thicker skin or get out of the business you uneducated journalistic hack!!
