Bud Poliquin Would Prefer It If You Got Off His Lawn

by Sean Keeley on Nov 18, 2008 1:42 PM EST Comment 18 comments

The Post-Standard's Bud Poliquin took a break today from writing his 427th article about what a great guy Greg Robinson is to remind you all that there are respectable, credentialed journalists and then there are bloggers. And never shall the twain meet...

Finally, this is what Alan Shore (a.k.a., James Spader) had to say about bloggers on Monday night's episode of "Boston Legal":

"People forgo newspapers for the Internet where, instead of relying on credentialed journalists, they turn to these bloggers, sort of entry-level life forms that intellectually have yet to emerge from the primordial ooze."

When he's right . . . he's right.

I guess he has a point. At least about SU bloggers specifically. I mean, none of us are actually educated...

Oh wait, many of us graduated from Syracuse University, the institution of higher education to which Bud owes his career.

And true, we all do just spend our days living in our parent's basements, writing diatribes in our underwear in-between episodes of Family Guy...

Oh wait, Brian over at Orange44 is a lawyer, Brent Axe works for the largest sports network in the country and every other SU blogger I know has some kind of full-time job that requires skill, knowledge and business acumen.

Bet you didn't know I could spell acumen, did you Bud? I can even define it. It means "keenness of judgment or insight." I'm full of knowledge and shit.

The funniest thing about the "Arg, I'm a journalist and bloggers are jerks" argument is the one that Will Leitch pointed out when he responded to Bob Costas' anti-blogger rant.

Who do you think is reading your column every day, Bud? Fans. And what are bloggers? Fans. So in a nutshell, you're calling your readers a bunch of ignorant morons. Well played.

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Wrote about him a while back...

He did this on the show as well, calling the bloggers several names. I wrote about it a while back…

Poliquin is beginning to remind me more and more of Bayless, where the only way he is going to do anything is by going after someone/thing.

AEM

"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot." - Dean Smith

by AEM on Nov 18, 2008 1:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Post

the link

by Sean Keeley on Nov 18, 2008 2:00 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Malcolm Gladwell

He blogs. On his website it actually says blog and he uses the word while blogging and everything. I would like to see Bud come remotely close to Malcolm Gladwell’s level of intelligence, professionalism and literary success. Is he a blogger only? No, but as you pointed out, most bloggers have bonafide careers that require more than burger flipping skills, so he is no different in that sense.

If newspaper and TV men are so worried about bloggers ruining journalism, maybe they should take the time to really understand why blogs get read and capitalize on that instead of shouting at the fewer and fewer people left paying attention.

by NOLACuse on Nov 18, 2008 1:59 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Bud calls himself

“online commentator”, because he signs his full name to his posts. He believes bloggers are the ones that don’t do that.

AEM

"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot." - Dean Smith

by AEM on Nov 18, 2008 2:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I know

I love that argument. Deadspin is widely considered a blog, but many of their “commentators” use full names. Meanwhile, other bloggers use nicknames for signatures, but their names are known. How shall we define them? It’s such a flimsy argument it’s laughable. To me it seems Bud dislikes the internet as a news source but has to sue it, so he does so begrudgingly and is mad at those that “made” the internet a news source.
The thought that non-journalism degree people should not be doing journalistic things is just so immature to me. Does Bud also think JK Rowling is not actually an author because that is not what she went to school for?

by NOLACuse on Nov 18, 2008 2:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Really?

He is an “online commentator” not a “blogger” eh? Hmm. That’s interesting. Then the place where those mini-columns of his — the ones that don’t go in the newspaper — get published must be known as “Bud’s Online Comment Site” or something. Right?

oops

by SyraJosh on Nov 18, 2008 2:34 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Here is the link...

http://theorangesports.blogspot.com/2008/10/so-bloggers-are-idiots-now.html

AEM

"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot." - Dean Smith

by AEM on Nov 18, 2008 2:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Bud can lick my nuts

And my B.A.

And my J.D. (with honors, bitch).

by Hoya Suxa on Nov 18, 2008 2:19 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Bud is a dumbass...

Bud hates bloggers because bloggers hate him. I always make fun of him, mostly because he doesn’t make any sense what so ever. He has his own video blog, and rants about nothing every week sputtering out inaccurate stats in ridiculous outfits. I loved it when JB chewed him out after P got fired too…

-KShaw

by The Saltine Warriors on Nov 18, 2008 2:27 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

am I getting this right?

his main source to (try to) prove his point is a TV show?

by sportzbelle on Nov 18, 2008 3:09 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Bud just made Axe's trash list

natch. Listen in.

by Sean Keeley on Nov 18, 2008 4:32 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Burg Boy...

No self-respecting Blogger would use the words “burg” and “ramrod” in every other column.

by Bill Orange on Nov 18, 2008 4:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

So...

Does this mean I am an “Internet Commentator” because I use my real name? God I hope not.

by Orange::44 on Nov 18, 2008 5:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Bud is a turd

Even when I lived in Syracuse, I couldn’t stand to read or listen to Bud. He’s just like 75% of the sports journalists out there…arrogant self-righteous jerks that demean the other 25% who actually have a clue.

Just because he’s paid by a newspaper doesn’t make him special. We all have our careers outside of blogging…but disrespecting us like that is just wrong. Bloggers bring the real passion to journalism…because it’s something we care about.

by sportsnightblog on Nov 18, 2008 5:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Bud's a Tool

You want to know why newspapers are dying – hacks like Bud have been pumping out the same shitty work product for the past 30 years. Of course, what would I know, I’m still in the primodial ooze, which is what I must have been doing when I was traveling the state of NY working for a sitting Governor.

by Russianator on Nov 18, 2008 6:00 PM EST reply actions 0 recs