A question that was posed in the blog was what caused the
evolution from the 1920’s through the present day in sports journalism; I took
a second and thought about my own answer to this given question. The simplest
thing I could think of was that it would be plain stupid to not utilize the
given technology that we have today. The article by Hancherick states that Bill
Simmons reaches over a million followers each and every time he tweets. This
means he can break a story to a massive audience be it in 140 characters or
less, before he writes an actual article. The one problem that twitter poses
when it comes to journalism is who is credible and who isn’t. I can go on
twitter right now and tweet that the Eagles have traded Michael Vick to the
Patriots for Tom Brady, is that by any means credible? No, but if say Adam
Schefter tweets the same thing people may actually look into it.
The article by Salwen and Garrison shows a table listing
the possible problems involving journalism and more importantly sports
journalism. The number one listed problem is professionalism. It seems every so
often you see a big plagiarism story come out in journalism that affects the
credibility of a given writer. The part
that really struck me in this article was the quote from Dwight Kier where he
gave a one word answer to the main problem facing journalism when he simply
said, “credibility.” Kier talks about how sports journalists aren’t very
polished in grammar or name spelling, and must improve.
Everyone loves to talk about the problems facing journalism
and the constant changing in the methods practiced by journalists. The truth is
that I don’t see much changing in terms of journalism for at least a few years,
the papers will stick around even though people love saying they’re “dying.”
Social media will continue to take over as the place to break news even though
it isn’t in a full story. These articles helped just further open my eyes to
problems that we’ve spent two weeks talking about in class, these were focused
mainly on sports and technology though.
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