Posted on 08/21/2006 5:50:16 AM PDT by abb
TONY KORNHEISER is living the dream of modern American journalism, having gone multiplatform long before being multiplatform was cool — or even a catchphrase. A newspaper and Internet sports columnist, radio host and sports television talker, Mr. Kornheiser is the embodiment of the new paradigm, a dream employee for every newspaper that is looking to make its journalism available across all platforms and its columnists into stars — which is to say, all newspapers.
And this season, he took on one of sports journalism’s most visible slots, becoming the color commentator on “Monday Night Football,” which has moved to ESPN. But there are indications that Mr. Kornheiser has risen to a status that may test his temperament and could create problems, along with a fair amount of buzz, for his employers.
Amid generally positive notices, a few tepid reviews of his first broadcast came in from The Washington Post and ESPN, two organizations Mr. Kornheiser draws a paycheck from, he threw the kind of hissy fit that added some dark shading to his jocular public persona.
Paul Farhi, his colleague at The Washington Post, found something wanting in the opening show, writing that “Kornheiser mostly spluttered, typically emphasizing the obvious.” Mr. Kornheiser responded with unseemly keening.
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Unsportsmanlike Conduct
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/18/AR2006081801109.html
Kornheiser can't be as bad as Olbermann...and who's the ESPN guy shilling for Progressive?
Kenny Mayne.....
Rush should've gotten this gig.
Tony's a funny guy - I enjoy him on PTI and liked his radio show too. He is showing a think skin though. If he can't stand the heat, he better get out of the kitchen.
Tony Kornheiser comes across as an axxhole. It's not really a surprise that he actually is one.
More this morning...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/22/AR2006082200007.html
Yo, Tony! I'm Talkin' About You!
By Gene Weingarten
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 22, 2006; Page C01
A week ago in this space, The Post's Paul Farhi wrote a negative review of his colleague Tony Kornheiser's debut on "Monday Night Football." Kornheiser responded by calling Farhi "a two-bit weasel slug," whom he would "gladly run over with a Mack truck." This reaction catapulted Farhi to national prominence, as bloggers and sports fans debated his review, and dozens of journalists wrote Farhi to express their support. Saying "I want to get ME some of that," columnist Gene Weingarten asked to review Kornheiser's second show.
The failed Kornheiser stewardship of "Monday Night Football's" color chair last night took yet another bumbling misstep toward its inevitable humiliating collapse. Even before the Post columnist and ESPN personality uttered his first words, it was clear he was in trouble, as he had still not succeeded in physically resembling a gentile. As an obvious "Jewish guy," Kornheiser's sports-cred deficit was exposed once again, compared with his co-hosts, the "black guy" and the "ex-jock."
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