The view from the bleachers
Jeff Jarvis on oppressive sportscasters:
That's what we need: coverage from the stands, from the fan's eyes, not from the dehumidified, dehumanized confines of a broadcast booth.
Yeah, cause when I watch a baseball game, am I interested in what's happening in the game itself? Nope, the real interest is in the drunken debris-throwing yahoos in the stands. Citizens' baseball, I call it. And call it, and call it and call it. Ad nauseam.
Dan Gillmor got it wrong. This isn't "We" Media, it's "Me" Media.
Wait, no! Let's podcast baseball games! So what that I probably won't hear the game till 2 days later? I'm not really interested in the game, I'm much more interested in what some blogger has to say about it! After all, we need to fact-check televised baseball games, damnit.