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Originally Posted by valo403
It was sleazy journalism from day 1 with a lot of writers and publications.
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In other words, par for the course. Over the last couple of decades, journalism has been turning into a refuge for people who can't succeed at anything else. And among journalists, sports reporters have always been at the bottom of the heap.
There was a time — most of the 20th century — when journalism rose above its roots and actually managed to be a useful and respectable occupation. Now we're right back where we were when Mark Twain wrote this:
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I tell you I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man's having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper. You turnip! Who write the dramatic critiques for the second-rate papers? Why, a parcel of promoted shoemakers and apprentice apothecaries, who know just as much about good acting as I do about good farming and no more. Who review the books? People who never wrote one. Who do up the heavy leaders on finance? Parties who have had the largest opportunities for knowing nothing about it.... You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands.
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