Bernie Lincicome, a sports columnist for the Rocky Mountain News until the tabloid went south last February, was known for his blunt opinions -- and blunt they remain even after almost a year on the shelf.
In an interview with the Chicago Reader, Lincicome, who's moved back to Chi-Town, where he was based prior to his Rocky hiring, says he blogged for a while after losing his gig, but stopped because "it was like I was snoring in an empty room. Even I couldn't hear the noise."
Maybe that's why he ripped the medium even as he used it. In one online piece for his now-moribund site, BernieLincicome.com, he wrote, "I should have a fresh appreciation for bloggers, but I do not yet... To be self-published still seems to be unnoticed, to imagine notice is to be self-deluded. This is not the game. This is just calisthenics."
Lincicome tells the Reader's Michael Miner he doesn't need the money, but he still approached the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune about chipping in -- "and neither one threw me out. Maybe I'm kidding myself, but they didn't tell me to crap in my hat." He adds, "I'm tired of being irrelevant."
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