Is there anything more hilarious than the mainstream media’s fear of the blogging industry?  I’ve never seen anything quite like it.  They must feel life France did before Germany invaded them in WWII. Just a total sense of helplessness.   It’s like their entire universe has been turned upside down.  For years and years and years sports journalists have had a virtual monopoly on how people got their information.  There was no alternative.   As a result guys like Shaughnessy and Borges came to have this elitist attitude that it was their birth right to cover the local sports teams and that their opinions were the only ones that mattered.    That everybody else was somehow beneath them.    It’s this type of attitude and total disconnect from reality which has doomed these guys.  Not to mention the fact that it’s hard for 50 year old guy to relate to a 25 year old.   Bottom line is that people were desperate to get their info from somewhere else and blogs have filled that vacuum.   So these idiots can talk all they want about morals and ethics blah, blah, blah.   But the bottom-line is that the reason they hate blogs so much is because they know they can’t compete with them.  And the gap is only going to widen in the future as they continue to get older and the demographic they need to reach gets younger.   So spare me the indignation about how blogs are inherently evil. The only people who complain about this type of stuff are guys who aren't good enough writers to keep their audience.