Comments on: Blogging as a respected career http://www.upstartblogger.com/blogging-as-a-respected-career Daily Inspiration For Bloggers Thu, 14 Apr 2011 19:12:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: Curtis Earl http://www.upstartblogger.com/blogging-as-a-respected-career#comment-14484 Curtis Earl Tue, 13 May 2008 10:19:21 +0000 http://www.upstartblogger.com/blogging-as-a-respected-career#comment-14484 As a sports blogger, i do battle with network writers every day. i used to write for fox sports. then i got into an argument with S Miller - the editor of Fox Sports. He told me that he hates bloggers. He only tolerates us because his boss stuck him with the job. the fox blogs are poorly kept. Fox writers troll the blogs stealing our ideas. One point of our argument was over a Barry Bonds piece i wrote. Like 7 or 8 paragraphs turned up in a professional writer's article. I called him out and Miller kicked me. now you know the story behind my blogsite Real Sports Bloggers. There are about 60 of us out here in the blogosphere. We have our work jacked, sometimes word for word, by paid sports writers who just call their articles blogs. I IP trace, and I can tell you that there's a fox sports writer with the initials LH who hits my site dozens of times a day. Every week or so, I'll get an email from a blogger on my site who wants me to ban her IP because she jacked him for an idea. months back, ESPN contacted me about a piece I wrote. I thought I was big time. Then the writer said that I was going to be an unpaid, unacknowledged source. WTF? he just wanted permission to reprint what I'd already written. A$$holes. he said i should be grateful for he exposure. i told him to kiss my buttocks. i HATE ESPiN anyways. Curt OASAASLLS As a sports blogger, i do battle with network writers every day. i used to write for fox sports. then i got into an argument with S Miller – the editor of Fox Sports. He told me that he hates bloggers. He only tolerates us because his boss stuck him with the job. the fox blogs are poorly kept. Fox writers troll the blogs stealing our ideas. One point of our argument was over a Barry Bonds piece i wrote. Like 7 or 8 paragraphs turned up in a professional writer’s article. I called him out and Miller kicked me. now you know the story behind my blogsite Real Sports Bloggers.

There are about 60 of us out here in the blogosphere. We have our work jacked, sometimes word for word, by paid sports writers who just call their articles blogs. I IP trace, and I can tell you that there’s a fox sports writer with the initials LH who hits my site dozens of times a day. Every week or so, I’ll get an email from a blogger on my site who wants me to ban her IP because she jacked him for an idea.

months back, ESPN contacted me about a piece I wrote. I thought I was big time. Then the writer said that I was going to be an unpaid, unacknowledged source. WTF? he just wanted permission to reprint what I’d already written. A$$holes. he said i should be grateful for he exposure. i told him to kiss my buttocks. i HATE ESPiN anyways.

Curt
OASAASLLS

]]>