“Da Reporter Now”

The Era of First-Person Communication has arrived.  Either that or Shaquille O'Neal is truly ahead of his time.

In response to recent criticism about his treatment of Dwight Howard, Shaquille O'Neal tweets:

frm my shaqberry I'm da reporter now

If ever there was a statement that summed up the wave of the Era of First-Person Communication, this is it.  Down to the shorthand.

The most recent chapter to this epic saga began when Shaq used his twitter page to post a picture of what Stan Van Gundy and Dwight Howard's baby would look like. And, well, if it's even slightly accurate, it's enough to make you glad that Stan Van Gundy and Dwight Howard will never have a baby.

In response to the picture, Yahoo! Sports ran an excoriating piece on Shaq, criticizing him for his failure to reach out to young players like Dwight:

Howard is 23 years old and Shaq owes it to the league, to common decency, to be civil with this kid. His treatment of Howard has been kind of sad, especially considering that Howard grew up wanting to be him.

Shaq, seemingly unfazed by the article, declared himself "da reporter" and went on a mission to respond to dozens of personal twitter messages about both the picture and the article.

Here are just a few of the various things Shaq's had to tweet over the last couple of days:

bad articles will never make me change my sense of humor those who can't learn to laugh should get lessons

I'm not a bully I'm a jokester I'm handin out free sense of humor lessons anybody wanna takem

I thght he had a sense of humor didn't he wear a wig in his vitamin water add, I didn't kno people can have prt time snse of humors

I haven't been hard on him sho me a tweet were I've been hard and jokes dnt count sho me

Dwight, of course, has a blog that he might easily use to respond to all of this goading.  He has not.  He's been strangely focused on the series against the Lakers.  Go figure.

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