{"id":382,"date":"2007-04-20T07:13:59","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T14:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=382"},"modified":"2007-04-20T07:13:59","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T14:13:59","slug":"the-other-radio-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/the-other-radio-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"The other radio scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"

While all of the mainstream media attention has been focused on Imus<\/a> and his asinine comments<\/a>, another radio talk show scandal which includes the actual commission of a crime has skated by largely unnoticed.
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\nColin Cowherd<\/a>, an ESPN Radio host, has had a long running beef with sports bloggers. Enough so I would characterize it as a love\/hate relationship, enough love to lift material from these sites<\/a> and enough hate to suggest mounting a denial-of-service attack to his listeners on a specific site, The Big Lead<\/a>.
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\nEarlier this month, that’s exactly what happened. Rather than describing it, listen to Cowherd’s own words<\/a>.
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\nThe listeners responded, bringing The Big Lead<\/a> down for 48 hours. The sports blogosphere rallied to The Big Lead’s<\/a> defense and newly appointed ESPN Ombudsman, Le Anne Schreiber’s<\/a> mailbox was filled up with messages about this incident. Schreiber’s response was fast and direct<\/a>.
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\nCowherd apologized on air<\/a> and escaped further discipline over the act (after all, he didn’t do it, he incited others to do it and ESPN had, at the time, no policy against promoting denial-of-service attacks.) To me, Cowherd’s incitement of the attack is orders of magnitude more serious than a notorious “shock jock” doing what he does, make stupid comments in public. If Imus can be fired for that act, Cowherd ought to face something more serious than a forced apology on air.
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\nThis does highlight a growing tension between traditional media and sports bloggers, you’ve got to wonder how it’s all going to shake out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While all of the mainstream media attention has been focused on Imus and his asinine comments, another radio talk show scandal which includes the actual commission of a crime has skated by largely unnoticed. Colin Cowherd, an ESPN Radio host, has had a long running beef with sports bloggers. Enough so I would characterize it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}