EOSM: WBNG-TV's Brendan O'Reilly Gets Schooled on the Blogosphere

There is an interesting blogger "controversy" going on in the sports broadcasting world. The following is an excerpt from WBNG-TV's Brendan O'Reilly Gets Schooled on the Blogosphere over on "Eye on Sports Media":

The world of sports blogs (and some main stream media blogs) was buzzing the past couple of days about WBNG-TV Sportscaster Brendan O'Reilly jabbing ESPN about harassing and hassling him to get video from Cornell's Ivy League title-clinching win last Saturday night. Having written about this yesterday, Eye on Sports Media was surprised to hear that he had created an account at SportsJournalists.com and talked about the blogisode without concealing his identity.

Readers have to understand that this is big news in itself, because 99% of the journalists on that site hide behind screen names and post such venom-filled content, and there are multiple threads on that site with sexual discussions that would make a sailor blush. But they defend this by saying that those are just "words" and "words" cannot harm anybody. They are entitled to say that, but they need to realize that the site itself, because of this content, is quite possibly violating quite a few federal laws (but that is a discussion for another day).

So with this in mind, Eye on Sports Media wanted to find out if the poster was indeed O'Reilly. So an e-mail was sent to a generic email address at WBNG-TV, and he responded fairly quickly. Here is a transcript of the email exchange (with his permission).

Yes, you will have to follow the link over there to read the full story about how this sportscaster views the business risk of blogging, especially when it is assigned to him by his management.