COWHERDGATE UPDATE: COWHERD RESPONDS

As sent:

Dear Mr. Solomon:

Putting aside for the moment whether ESPN Radio is staffed with journalists, is it company policy to allow its on-air talent to plagiarize comedy bits from the internet and then tell the author to “GET OVER IT” because he is “WHINING” about having his material taken without attribution?

I know you never would have stood for this at the Post.

Take care,
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http://michiganzone.blogspot.com/2006/03/colin-cowherditsomewhereelsefirst.html

Disney sucks.

I feel the righteous anger over this that only a person procrastinating over a thesis can feel. What a tool.

Anybody else think they’re eventually gonna find Solomon’s body washed up somewhere? He seems to be getting more frustrated with each passing column.

He does it from DC as a mere formality on ESPN, so he’ll keep cashing the checks.

I wonder if Solomon should exchange the Ombud column for his Sunday column at the WP, and see if anyone at the WWL notices. Highly unlikely, but just a thought.

Mike Barnicle was fired from the Boston Globe for ripping off Jimmy Buffet. Why should ESPN be any different?

The entire fracas is now linked on Romenesko’s blog, meaning that, to the extent Cowherd thinks of himself as a journalist, he has now been embarrassed in front of his peers.

http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45

Not sure we could live without Solomon’s Sunday Wash Post column. It’s usually filled with great insight like:

“The Nationals need an owner.”

“Maryland’s basketball team had a tough year.”

“Dan Snyder spends alot of money on free agents.”

He’s terrible.

He’s not a great writer, but he hired a great staff.

BTW, Cowherd has been Farked.

I’d have a large chunk of change from ESPN.

Plagarism, and Assbaggery.

For any part I might I have played in this entire fiasco, I offer this…an official apology

For some reason I don’t think that link is working so here it is again.

There’s been a petition up on this dude for a while now. He made fun of Eddie Guerrerro right after his death, so the first 13,770 or so signatures had to do with that, now it’s up to a hundred more today for the M Zone thing.

HERE

Well, if it’s any consolation to the good folks at M Zone, their side of the story is now being linked to by Jim Romenesko’s very well-read media blog (see the left-hand column).

No reason not to pile on.

Cowherd’s retort in one of those MZone emails has been driving me fucking nuts since I read it – what is the fucking difference between reading blogs and message boards (which he seems to associate with being a loser) and listening to sportstalk radio (which I presume he thinks makes one a champ)? God.

what is the fucking difference between reading blogs and message boards (which he seems to associate with being a loser) and listening to sportstalk radio

The former implies you can read and write; the latter implies you can’t.

loved the part about ESPN the magazine….i feel exactly the same when it hits my mailbox and goes straight to the trash….and every time i also say “damn insider subscription”

As a journalist, I say that Cowherd should be publicly flogged and put in the the pillory for all to laugh and throw rotten food at. What a little bitch. It’s no shame to share info you heard elsewhere, just credit the source.

I guess that means I can just rehash every goddamn thing Jim Rome says and post it and it’s OK, right? What a chode. Prick. Asshole. God, that makes me angry. Time to get another drink, fire up the PS2, and pretend this never happened.

Free The M Zone!

I’ve only listed to Cowherd once and that was when he gave an impression of my 3 year old nephew trying to read Orson’s “People we Hate Article.”

Personally I think all of you picking on the obviously mentally handicapped like this is despicable. Colin has obviously done more for the rights of retards to be on radio than Tendafoot did for raising awareness about two legged elephants.

O.K I got Cowheards MZone article in about 10 e-mails BEFORE I heard it on his show. I always here radio shows reading e-mails and off blog sites. You guys have no life if your complaining about this stuff. Intellectual property! Please, a research paper is intellectual property. I doubt the MZone even came up with it. One of the questions is and old OSU Michigan jokes that my father heard in the 80’s so shut your wininng.