Although I often bang the drum for "new media" in world still dominated by the "old media," I do not fancy myself one of those hateful bloggers, filled with nothing but spite for traditional sportswriters. Frankly, I find many of them to be excellent writers, and I generally believe you get to a position like that because you know a thing or two about how to pen an article.
But occasionally, they slip up.
Chicago Tribune writer Paul Sullivan is the target of a good many
barbs by the bloggers in the Cublogoverse - sometimes ill-deserved,
other times not. In full disclosure, I read him daily. In double full
disclosure, that's usually simply because he has access that I do not.
Sullivan recently took a mailbag full of questions from readers, addressing each with the slightly acerbic tongue that makes him interesting. But Sullivan's response to one question really got my blood boiling. To me, it felt like an abuse of his position, an unnecessary denigration of one of his readers, and a complete abdication of his duties as a Chicago Cubs sportswriter. And Sullivan should be ashamed.
Read the question that got me so bothered, and how Sullivan should have responded.
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