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Originally Posted by Cali Flames Fan
I remember when the role of media was to report, and not to provide opinion. Those were the days. Now everyone has an editorial section within each article.
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The sports pages have always been full of the opinion of columnists. Hint: If there's a picture of the author, it's a column, not a news story. Eric Duhatskek is a columnist. George Johnson is a columnist. Stephen Brunt is a columnist. How many people even read the straight game stories anymore, when they can get the highlights in a couple clicks?
People read opinion columns. They sell papers and page views. News outlets are in the business of entertaining and selling newspapers and page views. If 'news' stories (really, sports is hardly news at all, it's entertainment) were what the viewers wanted, that's what they would get.