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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
Actually it is the other way around. That is how Trump gets his talking points and his votera. Seems like a system that just needs to die already.
Ya it is sad about some talented people being laid off but it is not like they are hard hitting deep investigative journalists . It is sort of a luxury to have sports reporters . they could just broadcast games and highlights with no commentary period. Games, highlights etc. The could just close caption everything.
Perspectives.
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The problem is there are no longer very many hard-hitting journos, and the opinion piece talking heads are more dominant. Most people can't separate news from editorial content. Critical thinking is a lost art.
Sports is culture, when it isn't reported locally we lose something important.
IMO this decline all started with consolidation and editorial restrictions and guidance (Aspers, Black, Murdock).
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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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No not at all, it's sad no one came up with a good model for monetizing news on the web. The internet is just the medium; that's like blaming paper for the quality of what's printed on it.
A lot of the news these days is propagated by people that aren't qualified to do so IMO, and lack the education or experience to put things into context.
I get almost all of my sports news from the web. I'm always interested in reading more, and I can tolerate smart ads that try and sell me something I might be interested in or need.
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Originally Posted by Jay Random
No one ever did want to pay for news. The newspaper industry used to pay the bills with classified advertising, until Craigslist and Kijiji took that away from them by doing it better. The TV and radio news business paid the bills with commercials, until the advent of Big Data made it possible for advertisers to see just how little value they were getting for money.
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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Interesting (if cynical) point. I think if it was possible to poll understanding of the world and civics the average person in the 1970s and 1980s was far more well-informed than people today; despite the Internet not having been popularized yet.
Knowledge has always been there for the taking, and it seems to me that people availed themselves of it more when it was harder to get.
I guess click bait and trolling is the future for sports news too.
This news makes me think of Ozzie, the main character in 'People of Earth' a TV show on Comedy Central. He is an award winning journo that finds himself writing Internet click bait (and then gets abducted by aliens). Funny show.