After checking out this piece of nonsense from Jason Whitlock, I am amazed at how he maintains getting a paycheck from News Corp.

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/8331492/NBC
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Mr. Whitlock makes the case to bash NBC's Football Tonight in America because it will reunite Dan Patrick and Keith Olbermann from ther ESPN golden age of Sportscenter. Mr. Whitlock believes he has no conflict of interest in bashing NBC for this move. Here are some reasons that Mr. Whitlock is more full of it than a Thanksgiving turkey or Turducken (to reference the Madden days of Fox):

1. Mr. Whitlock is a News Corp employee.
2. News Corp employees get reprimanded for criticizing fellow employees in a public forum but encouraged to trash the competition.
3. ESPN Sportscenter with the Olbermann/Patrick line up had more people watching it than Mr. Whitlock has page views on his blog.
4. While the Olbermann/Patrick/Berman schtick may have been imitated, it has not been duplicated successfully by anyone else.

Mr. Whitlock, does it hurt that you are not the ringmaster on the Fox pre-game show so you feel the need to stump for the job by bashing the NBC competition to prove to old Rupert that you are loyal and get into consideration for the job? Why else would you bash NBC's move before even seeing the final product even once?

While the NBC show from last football season was far from perfect, your lack of knowledge about Costas quite successfully anchoring the NBC NFL pregame show in the 80's is quite laughable. You call yourself a journalist? You should hang your head in shame. 12 year old bloggers do better research than you do every day and do not collect a paycheck for what passes for reporting by standards that are much higher than your own.

Also, last time I checked, Frank Calliendro was not a football guy. Why in Sam Hill are his p-poor impersonations on the Fox pre-game show when half the time they are not even up to the low standards of "using the same voice all the time" Rich Little? Jillian Barbieri is hot mama, however having her as a weather girl does not add to the broadcast in any other way than T and A. Do you think that Fox actually airs a pre-game show without serious flaws as well? If you do, News Corp Human Resources may want to investigate your office supply requisitions, as you must be going through a lot of rubber cement to keep your mind in such a delusional state.

Your article smacks of conflict of interest. That may not be how you think you roll, but that is how you proved you roll with that article.