Fox Sports cuts web writing staff

Yes.

Grantland: How Cobra Kai ESPN Swept the Leg Out From Under It

 

Yes, because the ad sales people could have persuaded folks to keep paying for classified ads when Craig Newmark provided them for free, and persuaded movie theaters to keep paying for listings when you can find them online for free, and persuaded department stores to stay in business and keep paying for display ads rather than go out of business entirely.

 

I'm not sure what Kurt Loder is up to, but Tabitha has been married to Michael "Moneyball" Lewis for 20 years. I once [name-dropping alert!] shared a green room with them, along with a "competitor" from the first season of "The Apprentice," before a cable-show spot. I don't think Lewis even glanced my way, but Tabitha was very friendly. (As was Troy from Boise, the Apprentice guy, in case you were wondering – and I know you were.)

 

Soren went into photography and has a book of photos following the A's draft featured in Moneyball.

 

Craig Newmark is responsible for killing newspapers as we knew them. The suits aided and abetted by charging a small fortune for classified ads.

 

She mostly went in to mothering.

 

The Fox Sports website is now something like a parody The Onion would've invented about sports media a few years ago.

 

Exactly. It reminds me of when FOX Sports hired Andy Roddick to weigh in on baseball.

It was comical.

 

I'm usually so optimistic, but the website is sad.

Nobody watches the shows. Why would clips of the shows draw clicks or interest?

Or is the website now simply a write off/promotional tool for the TV shows, not really intended to draw many clicks ?

I dunno. It's all very chicken/egg, and it's painful.

 

This hasn't been labeled the move that will help Fox overtake ESPN yet?

 

So you fell for it? This all started when the front office types panicked over the yearly rising cost of newsprint (like gas prices newsprint costs went down BTW). The suits at that point started to listen to the consultants who DEMANDED newspapers give away their content for free on the internet. It's just gotten worse and worse every year. The lack of raises and furloughs and taking away of 401K payments (as well as making reporters work 24/7, terrorizing them for not tweeting breaking news within 2 minutes of the 'national 'competition) are tolerated in the newsroom as writers and copyeditors who have this business in their blood take all the 'abuse' thrown their way. No raises for 10 years? Yes sir. Can I have another?
However, the ad salespeople said "What?" at the conditions, quit and went to work in sales in some other field. The good newspaper ad sales people weren't going to work for such clueless suits under such horrible conditions so they quit. The current sales people are LOL types. They are lazy individuals who have the ear of the suits: "Hey I've tried day after day this week. Nobody wants to buy ads." The suits, who don't believe in the print product and want it to fail, shake their heads and say, "Thanks for trying. Keep up the good work."