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A Historic Moment in Sports Journalism History

Welcome to WatchDog. It's my blog.
You are a pioneer if you are reading this, because it's May 2 and we are not formally announcing its existence until May 4.
I write a three-times-a-week column in Newsday that you might have heard of called SportsWatch. When that column launched in the fall of 2005, I wanted to call it WatchDog, a name suggested by a friend from another New York tabloid.
The idea got nixed by my boss at the time, which was his right. And now that I have a blog I have a right to call it WatchDog. That's the story behind the name.
It's about "watching'' as in being a media observer/critic and it's about being a "watchdog'' in the sense of consumer advocacy for the endlessly dumped-on sports fan of the 21st century.
I will try to post at least once a day, and offer you some of the mountains of stuff I come across that you might find interesting but that didn't find its way into the newspaper.
It's a win-win-win: You get more information, the company gets more production from me without having to pay me extra and I get to write self-indulgent stuff like all of the above whenever the mood strikes me.
Pretty amazing for a toy (the Internet) that I was convinced was a fad in the mid-90s. Yikes.
Welcome. And, as always, thanks for reading. (Be the first to respond to this post and go down in WatchDog history!)

Posted by Neil Best on May 2, 2007 1:06 PM |

Comments (20)

Posted by Your buddy | May 3, 2007 09:57

So, what do I get out of it?

 

Posted by Neil Best | May 3, 2007 10:56

Tell me who you are and I will think of an appropriate prize.

 

Posted by Your buddy | May 3, 2007 13:02

I carried you on my back for 10 years while you covered the Giants beat.

 

Posted by Neil Best | May 3, 2007 14:56

Hmmm. Michael Strahan? Thanks for reading, Stray!

 

Posted by 5w30 | May 3, 2007 20:27

Good luck. This will be an interesting blog, for sure.
Hey how about this for an idea - tv sports media columnists [as opposed to just sports reporters or columnists] as pundits on tv sports networks they're supposed to cover with an alleged sense of balance?
Examples: Neil Best on SNY ...
Bob Raissman on SNY .. but the Daily News has a marketing agreement with SNY and it seems he won't write a bad paragraph about them.
Your turn.

 

Posted by bgl-in-slc | May 8, 2007 15:34

Neil: I read you column every day here in Utah. I've heard the Suzy Waldman rant, but she's nowhere near as annoying as Larry Merchant was on Saturday night! By the way what's the deal with Cornell getting the 4 seed in Lax?

 

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