By now, you should have heard about the whole “Costas Now” spat between Buzz Bissinger (author) and Will Leitch (blogger).  If you haven’t do a YouTube search, I’m sure it’s there.

And while I apologetically have not posted here much, I felt that a comment regarding the issue deserved some more attention.  It’s not often the blogs link to comments, eh?  Either way, AOLSportsblog commentor “Steve Body” let his thoughts be known.  Check them out here:

I’m in my mid-50s and worked as a journalist for many years. As such, I could be expected to do a back-slapping apology for Buzz Bissinger and try to explain away his bombastic sermon as a traditionalist flailing against technology. The truth is that Bissinger’s rant is as old as journalism itself and was NEVER justified by anything. It’s simple bad manners and arrogance and should be treated as such. One of the reasons I’m not a journalist, anymore, is that I got fed up with that stiff-necked, down-the-nose attitude that says that writing is a sacred quest, best left to the professionals and NEVER to be entrusted, in any form beyond the occasional letter to the editor, to the Great Unwashed. Young writers lucky enough to be hired by a newspaper or magazine were expected to shut the F___ up for a decade or so and learn from their betters, conveniently ignoring that the vitality of their imaginations is exactly what the veteran writers so frequently lack. They worship structure and correct form and most manage to pack in about as much emotional content as the nutrition info on a Twinkie. There are a lot of Bissingers out there, lacking only an invitation to Costas’ show to find their own spectacular meltdown on youtube. Will Leitch, writing on deadspin, showed what I thought was remarkable restraint in his handling of Bissinger’s baloney, saying how much he liked his books and how he really hoped that whatever was eating Buzz would heal up soon. It won’t. What NOBODY – well, that’s an exaggeration: very few – veteran journalists refuse to understand is that writing was ALWAYS man’s primary means of expressing himself in any way that has permanance. Spoken words rely only on the hearer’s memory and receptiveness. Writing is far more permanent. And back when we all scratched our wisdom on stone tablets, anyone could play. Then, along came ink and presses and, for 600 years, it was the sole provense of those who owned those resources. With the internet, the written word is finally back in the hands of those who were supposed to own it in the first place: YOU and ME. Certainly, there are utter fools and jackasses who write blogs, just like there were fools and asses who owned and edited newspapers. But there is also an OCEAN of witty, funny, thoughtful, wise, touching content that deserves to be written AND read…and, at long last, we can ALL find it – IF we’re not too lazy. Bissinger, for all his talent, lives in that country-clubby past…and he rails at Leitch as being the “future”? Guess what, Buzz? The future is here NOW.

It’s not every day that you’ll find someone of “Steve’s” demographic willing to take this stance.  You’ll have to pardon the lack of spell-check on Steve’s part, but you get the picture.  For the original post, head here.