Hearst papers to use Bleacher Report stories

Terrible. "Veteran" means old is asinine, veteran means seasoned. It means you've got experience and know what you're doing. It helps the more of that experience you have, sure, but I've seen late 20-somethings who were damned fine vets. I doubt it means nothing "to the fans" because I'd be willing to bet my bottom dollar the fans are more interested in reading what the "old" veteran who has been through the grind has to write than what a blogger is writing from his house. And without the old veteran doing the legwork those fans have NOTHING to care about, because the blogger has nothing to regurgitate (or steal, in some instances).

Of course you found nothing wrong with it, you've been an advocate of this. Just another example of the Worldwide Leader's Wal Mart-ization of sports journalism, as an unsettling chunk of that fan perspective was chastising sports writers for not being starry eyed and googly. If you're "more nervous interviewing an athlete than when I lost my virginity!" you don't belong in the clubhouse post-game. Sorry.

And for penny pinching corporate guys, that "competition" as you put it, meaning untrained, non-professionals willing to work for free means those who are skilled, are trained, do have access CAN'T pay the mortgage because it's better for the bottom line to take free work.

Condescending garbage to tell someone they're lucky to still have a job. A lot of people around here have seen an industry they believed in ravaged and they're just supposed to be happy because they still have a job? It's OK that Fanboy No. 414 stole the content it took time and effort to craft because I still have my paycheck - a paycheck that's been the same since 2005 because of raise freezes.

 

When I get plagiarized, which happens (sadly) about four or five times a year, my significant other says to me, "at least you wrote something good enough that people want to steal."

This makes me more angry. I want to stop writing altogether because there is no value placed on it anymore.

There is really really good writing being done, and some horrible stuff too, but the reader can't seem to tell the difference and no one is helping them sort it out. It's all just words, many of them stolen.

 

i can't believe the "editorial interns" have not learned the difference between hear and here. complete shocker.

 

blog415,

See this at the end of something you quote? [/quote]

You must leave it there in order for that post to be quoted, and for your ensuing response to not be quoted.

Now, the real reason for my post:

Part of the reason many who used to be in the business no longer are is not really because of the closures of papers like the Rocky Mountain News and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

It is because of guys like you.

And, considering your presence in the industry, people who still have paying jobs are lucky to still be working.

Now do you understand our anger and angst?

 

No, he won't.

Calm down? Old? That's fine. I can arguably say with confidence you probably were eating boogers and having your ass wiped when many of us began.

All I say is, one day you'll get your comeuppance. One day.

It could be if you become an engineer and a 21-year old whiz college dropout takes your project for his. Maybe you'll be a journalist and have some KindlePad videograpalist steal your work. Or maybe you'll just be a city sanitation worker and be phased out by the newest garbage-blasting laser machine.

But your comeuppance will come one day, and you'll realize then what it means to be told to "Calm down, old-timer. Here's your paycheck with the latest percentage decrease taken out. Be glad you still have a job."

 

Bleacher Report is now fully in effect in the LA Times too and it looks great
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/360773-los-angeles-dodgers-the-bitter-end-for-manny-ramirez
It has the LA Times logo in the page and makes it seem more like they (fan writers) work for the Times

 

How does one get to be a Bleacher Report senior writer?

 

Move your blogquarters from the basement to the upstairs den?

 

Gotta admit, great line.

 

Uhh...blog415...

You just are not getting it, are you?

"and it looks great...It has the LA Times logo in the page and makes it seem more like they (fan writers) work for the Times" is exactly the problem with this.

I gotta tell you, I looked at a Bleacher Report item for the very first time with this link (and only because it was this link), and I have to say that there is virtually nothing of substance in it. It is certainly nothing, at all, that an actual paid L.A. Times writer, or any paid sportswriter, could not write.

Ah, just another problem with this, I guess...

Your obtuseness is stunning, and, unfortunately, probably very telling for the future of this business, and maybe even society.

 

Write, without disagreeing with anything else you say, that link was OK writing. Passable, at least.

Better than a lot of BR content.