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Originally Posted by curves2000
I understand the media business is under attack business model wise but when does this all stop? Newspapers, local tv, national tv, print media, magazines etc are all gutting staff.
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It doesn't. The traditional media relies on a non-viable business model. It'll all be over soon.
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Originally Posted by Jay Random
Meanwhile, there are more news sources now than ever before, and they are not spending most of their time just reprinting AP and Reuters stories, or following the one idiotic nonevent that the ‘24-hour news cycle’ has decided to shove down the whole world's throats that day. Losing these things does not make the public dumber; it merely takes away the illusion that they are informed about current events. They never were informed.
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These 'news' sources are mostly people at home in their bathrobes copying stories put out by the remaining traditional media outlets. Very, very little genuine investigation and reporting is done by alternative media.
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Originally Posted by Itse
Besides, most sports news are so formulaic it's ridiculous. In Finland one paper already has an AI who writes the game stories, and really there's no difference to what the "reporters" do. Which means: equally useless. I know how to read the box score, I watch the games myself or if I don't I can see the highlights. All I need on top of that is a place where I can talk with other fans. The reporters add nothing.
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Yes, most sports reporting is pretty worthless. But we're not just going to lose the bad stuff, we're going to lose the Eric Duhatschek's. And not just Duhatschek himself, but today's 26 year potential Duhatscheck. Nobody with brains, ambition, and the aspirations of a middle-class lifestyle is going into journalism today.
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Originally Posted by polak
So you want to go back before the internet?
The internet really killed the flow of information...
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We've been living in the best of both worlds for the last 10 years. The professionally-sourced and produced media of the traditional model, delivered free on the internet. That's about to end. Soon there won't be any more professional content. It's be all amateur, all the time, and 99.9 per cent of it worth what you paid.
Which isn't that much of a tragedy when it comes to sports. The real issue is how it will affect politics and civic affairs when the only sources of information about public policy, finances, etc. will be PR hacks and people at home in their bathrobes ranting about their pet theories and partisan feuds. That'll be fantastic. Because no sensible person is going to volunteer to read city council minutes, legislature hansards, and 400 page budget documents.