David Carr has a good column today about when the reporter thinks he or she is the star. To wit, Tony Kornheiser. An excerpt:
Like no one else, Mr. Kornheiser has leveraged a radio face and a newspaper voice into multiplatform stardom, but his history demonstrates that when it comes to dishing it out without the ability to take same, he also has few rivals. It is not that he has thin skin; he has no skin.
When Mike Golic, the host of a morning sports show on ESPN, suggested that Mr. Kornheiser’s performance was merely “fine,” Mr. Kornheiser was moved to say, “I just want to ring Golic’s neck and hang him up over the back of a shower rod like a duck.”
Last year, the ESPN columnist Chuck Klosterman took a measured swipe at Mr. Kornheiser, who then ranted on his radio show for days, demanding that Mr. Klosterman come to the phone and defend himself.