Sporting News/AOL Fanhouse

Uncle Dave chimes in on Bleacher Report/AOL Fanhouse

http://bit.ly/dQZEOu

 

Nice work Dave. Too bad so few are listening.

 

From a name-recognition (and quality of work) standpoint, Feinstein is far above the columnists TSN would inherit from Fanhouse. Not sure what they were paying him as a contributor, but hard to think a full-time hire, essentially filling the same space, would be any significant savings.

The worst thing about Bleacher Report is that they just leech traffic away from the people who actually break the news, work the beats and give the BR hacks something to "react" to. The site does well in the search engines, but the content is at best regurgitation, or a fan response to something read elsewhere (and rarely linked to).

 

Aw Dave, that's good work.

 

I especially liked this:

These developments could cause a romantic fool long in love with journalism to wonder if he ought to have lavished his affection on a more deserving subject, perhaps Mustang spinner hubs.

 

Finally, a column that matches my mood. Splendid in its crankiness. When I hit the line about 'I'll wait while you reread'... I'd already reread it 3 times.

It's hard to know what's got me more fired up at the moment: This whole shitty AOL situation or The Daily's attempt at "news" on Giffords.

 

I nearly choked on my cereal at "relieved of his farming implements."

Bravo, Dave.

 

I don't know Moddy personally, but "quality doesn't seem that important" had to be a difficult admission to make in public. Got to the heart of all of it, though. Kudos.

 

Good column.

But the headline is notable:

"Waiting for the day readers march in and demand an end to the dreck"

I suspect the wait will be much longer than most hope. It already has been, hasn't it?

I have long thought that we need to resign ourselves to the idea that readers - as an entity, as a group changing demographics from older to younger - simply do not care. I know there are studies that express hope in this regard, but the fact is that Bleacher Report and its contemporaries are (as of now) winning the battle.

As we've seen in threads here and in the bios and content on its site, they'll gleefully continue on their merry way. Meanwhile, collections of real talent such as FanHouse will keep falling.

There will be no mass reader uproar. There wasn't one when newspapers fell, and there won't be one now. They have their own problems; they don't care about journalism's.

 

Was Feinstein quoted in that article? If so, I missed it...


Great work by Kindred as usual. I love a grumpy columnist.