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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 10, 2023 21:57:59 GMT -5
I know there’s been comments in threads here and there but really seems like things are coming to an end for sports staff in print news, sadly.
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 10, 2023 22:25:30 GMT -5
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Post by tashoya on Jul 11, 2023 19:19:15 GMT -5
I know there’s been comments in threads here and there but really seems like things are coming to an end for sports staff in print news, sadly. Sad but inevitable. |
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Post by hoyarooter on Jul 12, 2023 17:40:09 GMT -5
I have been a subscriber to the LA Times for my entire adult life. There was some sort of announcement in the Sports on Sunday about reformatting, but it looked like a whole lot of nothing. The Times Sports section took a big step backwards during the pandemic, so I'm not sure what's happening now. I will look further into this, and appreciate the heads up, even if it came by way of one of my least favorite writers (although at least it's not Bill Simmons).
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 13, 2023 18:35:46 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Jul 15, 2023 8:43:36 GMT -5
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Post by hoyarooter on Jul 17, 2023 3:33:44 GMT -5
This is a disgrace. Maybe they should just eliminate the Sports section. They're killing off the best and most important features. Way back in the day, when I was a GU student, my father used to dutifully cut out all of the articles about the Rams, Bruins, Lakers and Dodgers that appeared in the Times and send them to me twice a week, so I could keep up with all of the goings on for the teams I supported (and also all of the horse racing results from Santa Anita or Hollywood Park). It was a far different time, of course. The Times publishes letters in the Sports on Sunday (at least that's continuing for now) and there were about 15 letters today, every one of them harshly critical of these changes. What seems to have gone unnoticed or unsaid is that this crazy printing schedule will also mean that the Times is a day behind on covering local news and also major national stories. Why the hell bother?
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Post by njhoya78 on Jul 17, 2023 10:08:02 GMT -5
Let's face it...we rely far more on the internet and all-sports radio/television outlets for our breaking sports news than we do on newspaper sports sections. The acquisition of The Athletic by the NYTimes spelled the ultimate end of the independent Times sports pages.
Print media, in general, has failed to adapt and capitalize on the electronic age wherein we get our news from Twitter and dot coms. This was inevitable...another "end of era" in our lives.
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Post by prhoya on Jul 17, 2023 12:39:10 GMT -5
Let's face it...we rely far more on the internet and all-sports radio/television outlets for our breaking sports news than we do on newspaper sports sections. The acquisition of The Athletic by the NYTimes spelled the ultimate end of the independent Times sports pages. Print media, in general, has failed to adapt and capitalize on the electronic age wherein we get our news from Twitter and dot coms. This was inevitable...another "end of era" in our lives. So gone are the days when students had WP subscriptions? I remember the first few days of school we had to set up a Riggs Bank account, request a phone line and sign up for the WPost. I remember the Discover Card was brand new. We recently took a few college tours and I was amazed at their focus on mental health and food/dining options. It made me laugh thinking how we had to settle for Marriott tater tots and a sad excuse for a salad bar. One school allowed its students to use their college meal plans at nearby participating restaurants. Another college’s dining hall serves gourmet-level meals. To HoyaTalk’s GU students and parents, please tell future students and parents what does college life look like these days? No landlines, no newspapers? How about TVs? Student banking accounts? Private vs college health plans? Cable TV or cable-cutting? |
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Post by BSM on Jul 17, 2023 16:26:16 GMT -5
I live in a 9 story, 109 Unit apartment building in NYC. Average age of residents is approx. 50. To some extent it's a NORC. I'm a dinosaur--I have a 7 day print (and digital) subscription to the NY Times. There are 4 physical copies of the NY Times, 3 copies of the NY Daily News, one NY Post and one Wall Street Journal delivered each morning to the building. Print newspapers have been dying for decades, hell the Village Voice couldn't stay in business--the Daily News became a joke when Sam Zell and the Chicago Tribune bought it--and the pandemic pretty much killed it in NYC when people stopped riding the subway to commute to work. I was in San Francisco in February. Chronicle is pathetic; Mercury News should pay people to read it; Oakland Tribune went under in 2016
Having said that, with all the pearl clutching that is going on with the NY Times eliminating its Sports Department and Robert Lypsite blaming it on coverage of the Premier League--did anyone actually buy/read the NY Times because of its Sports Section? Maybe in the days of Red Smith. Forget about Spurs, nobody in the Bronx was reading the Times for its NY Yankees coverage either. Was it a highbrow Playboy (People claiming to buy the Times for the articles but reading the Sports under the sheets, hiding the Sports section in the closet)? Pleassssse. The Times demographic wouldn't be caught dead reading the Sports section in Public and the publishers didn't buy The Athletic to operate it independently of the Times.
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 18, 2023 17:02:56 GMT -5
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Post by DFW HOYA on Sept 18, 2023 17:43:05 GMT -5
Not the first, nor the last newspaper to send sports to the hinterlands, along with comics, crossword puzzles, and automotive ads on Saturdays. The Times has been so dismissive of sports for so long that its readers long since stopped caring; of course, many will be shocked, shocked whew the Sulzbergers do the same to its theater coverage one day.
There is no monetary model for exclusive sports coverage: The National learned this the hard way 30 years ago, and The Athletic will meet the same fate, following in the footsteps of long ago brands like the Sporting News, what passes for Sports Illustrated now, and Pro Football Weekly.
Were it not for the Redskins, Washington Post sports would have been in full retreat years earlier, and perhaps already is.
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Post by Elvado on Sept 18, 2023 18:58:08 GMT -5
Let's face it...we rely far more on the internet and all-sports radio/television outlets for our breaking sports news than we do on newspaper sports sections. The acquisition of The Athletic by the NYTimes spelled the ultimate end of the independent Times sports pages. Print media, in general, has failed to adapt and capitalize on the electronic age wherein we get our news from Twitter and dot coms. This was inevitable...another "end of era" in our lives. So gone are the days when students had WP subscriptions? I remember the first few days of school we had to set up a Riggs Bank account, request a phone line and sign up for the WPost. I remember the Discover Card was brand new. We recently took a few college tours and I was amazed at their focus on mental health and food/dining options. It made me laugh thinking how we had to settle for Marriott tater tots and a sad excuse for a salad bar. One school allowed its students to use their college meal plans at nearby participating restaurants. Another college’s dining hall serves gourmet-level meals. To HoyaTalk’s GU students and parents, please tell future students and parents what does college life look like these days? No landlines, no newspapers? How about TVs? Student banking accounts? Private vs college health plans? Cable TV or cable-cutting? If you’re going to raise veal, the boxes and the food are paramount… |
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Post by DanMcQ on Sept 18, 2023 22:38:42 GMT -5
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Post by DanMcQ on Jan 19, 2024 13:10:02 GMT -5
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 19, 2024 13:44:52 GMT -5
Being an old fart, I've had a subscription for 45+ years now. I guess that's soon to end. |
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Post by guru on Jan 19, 2024 14:59:47 GMT -5
Being an old fart, I've had a subscription for 45+ years now. I guess that's soon to end. What can you still subscribe to? They don’t do a print edition at all anymore right? Do they actually charge people for their online stuff? |
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Post by SSHoya on Jan 19, 2024 15:45:42 GMT -5
Being an old fart, I've had a subscription for 45+ years now. I guess that's soon to end. What can you still subscribe to? They don’t do a print edition at all anymore right? Do they actually charge people for their online stuff? SI still has a print edition wich gets you expanded content online. |
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