TJ Simers on changes in Los Angeles Times sports section going into effect Monday

Agreed. If you’re going to bash a newspaper for its substandard journalism, you must avoid run-on sentences.

 

I certainly understand the drive and desire to present the news where readers younger than 70 are.

Unfortunately, our industry still hasn’t figured out to reach those folks with advertising on websites, Facebook, etc.

As I and others have said many times, newspapers would dump the print edition in a heartbeat if it penciled out financially, because it’s such a labor intensive, expensive and time consuming process.

 

In the battle between TJ Simers and the LA Times, the winner is nobody.

 

As Letterman once put it:
If Gary Coleman and Ricky Schroeder were to have a battle to the death with pool cues, who would win?
A) Gary Coleman
B) Ricky Schroeder
C) The television-viewing public

 

we called them 'featurized gamers' at one shoppe.

The game itself would get wedged in and nut graf adjusted as needed.

T.J. Simers is 72 years old, by the way, and every length of it.

 

Simers illustrates exactly why newspapers struggled to catch up to the times. In 2023, absolutely no one should be waking up the next morning looking for a gamer.

 

Not a fan of Plaschke, either. Saw this one from April ...

https://tjpage2.blog/2023/04/20/plaschke-is-either-sick-old-or-just-stinks/?amp=1

 

Wow. The bitterness is remarkable.

 

Major dailies like the DMN and FWST have been doing this for years now. Writing basically pre-written columns/features and inserting the final score of the game as just a chef's kiss.

 

The opposite of the Dave Kindred sunset.

 

Mitch Albom has entered the chat.

 

Plaschke is a favorite target. Simers ripped him a new one a week or two ago after Plaschke wrote another "the Astros stole a World Series from the Dodgers" column.

That said, I do enjoy a good curmudgeon like Simers. And every now and then he'd write a column about some kids at the children's hospital who would like never go home that had me reaching for a blankie.