Kindred's frightening look at the future of sportwriting

Oh, I agree that most kids don't pick up a newspaper. And most don't care about reading, period. But are they all video-game crazed and seemingly as dorky as Kid Leonsis? I doubt it. I know TONS of kids and adults my age (26) who have subscriptions to SI. It's still a pretty big deal, IMO.

I do agree we need to change the foundation of sports coverage. People care about sports and will read about it if it interests them, for sure. And the principle of the article is vital: don't waster readers' time.

 

Seriously? The last article he wrote wasn't the freaking Bible, it was some suggestions. I don't think he was implying that if you don't follow all of them that you're a failure as a journalist. Let it go and appreciate his insight.

Sorry to say that his words carry a bit more weight than someone who takes down stats and interviews kids for a living.

 

Criminals just lick their chops seeing the deepening idiocracy that the U.S. is becoming.

What morons these kids are.

 

The younger generation isn't reading. If they are reading, it's on the Web, not in print.

You're in denial if you don't realize that.

 

You could have said that 20 years ago. And 40 years ago.

That's not new.

 

Exactly. If the world had to depend on teens and young adults, we'd have been fucked a long time ago. People grow up.

 

But now people are growing up reading the news for free on their phone, and paying their bill to Sprint.

 

Wrong.

 

Sirs, Madames,

I taught a magazine-writing class a couple of years ago and in the get-to-know-you stage asked a couple of kids what magazines they read. One insolent bitch with a bunch of piercings that would have made a nice set of flatware said: "I don't read magazines. They cost money." It was stunning that a journalism class would have barely two or three magazine readers.

That said, my older, now-college-aged daughter has maintained subscriptions to Time and the New Yorker since age 12. She has read 10 Margaret Atwood novels for fun ... and I couldn't find fun in a page of them. She, of course, has no interest in journalism as field of study.

I dunno. Leonis is the leader of an owner-driven death-of-newspapers-all-hail-the-blogs movement. No news there.

o-<

 

And don't forget, you also have to shoot video of the game, and go back and edit in in your spare (unpaid) time.

 

Absolutely not new.

Not untrue, either.

A broad, classical education as a basis for living/enjoying an informed, adult life?

Went by the boards, some forty years ago.

Makes things easier in a number of ways for those who have it . . . but, then, we have to endure the fact that the idiots who don't have it are allowed to vote.

 

As much as I disliked Kindred lecturing everyone on here about how they could have the career of their dreams if they just WORKED HARDER!!!, I think I dislike the prep beat martyrdom which rears its head every so often even more.