Since when are sports reporters fact-checked? When they say “My sources in the league say that everyone hates Curt Schilling,” does an editor call the un-named sources to verify the claim? I call bullshit - sports reporters have to look up the see the belly of a used-car salesman.

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Still, the comments were ignorant and arrogant. (If I had a third adjective to go with those two, I would be Jackie Stiles.) I cannot believe that journalists of all people want less debate and content. Smart people are able to understand what is crap and what is good. And most people realize having an editor and a major media company signing your checks is not the determinative factor regarding quality.

‘I understand with newspapers struggling and hoping to hold on to, or possibly expand their audiences, I understand why they do what they do,” Costas said. ‘But it’s one thing if somebody just sets up a blog from their mother’s basement in Albuquerque and they are who they are, and they’re a pathetic get-a-life loser, but now that pathetic get-a-life loser can piggyback onto someone who actually has some level of professional accountability and they can be comment No. 17 on Dan Le Batard’s column or Bernie Miklasz’ column in St. Louis. That, in most cases, grants a forum to somebody who has no particular insight or responsibility. Most of it is a combination of ignorance or invective.”

“It’s just a high-tech place for idiots to do what they used to do on bar stools or in school yards, if they were school yard bullies, or on men’s room walls in gas stations. That doesn’t mean that anyone with half a brain should respect it.”

I’m sure he’ll be fair. After all, Costas is ……a very small man.