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Gannett papers using AI for high school football

Considering it was probably designed 500 miles away, be impressed they spelled the name correctly...
And that's Gannett's journalism now - listicles.
 
I can't believe AI would replace reporters. Next thing you know, it's going to replace SJ posters.

"Salary caps are a blight on capitalistic endeavors such as professional sports."--BYH2
"Salary caps are a fair leveling of the playing field between markets of different sizes."--@outofplace
"A teacher of mature age is having interpersonal relations with a teenaged student in an American state."--@poindexter
 
I don't know if AI is to blame, but I saw a copy of the Register-Guard at a 7-11, might have been the Sunday paper. The main A-1 headline above the fold was "Places to see fall color in the Willamette Valley." Honestly. Back in the day, that might be lead art on a "Life" section on a slow day when nothing else was popping.
Does the Register-Guard have any staffers other the sportswriters covering the Ducks working on weekends? A serious quesition.
 
"Salary caps are a blight on capitalistic endeavors such as professional sports."--BYH2
"Salary caps are a fair leveling of the playing field between markets of different sizes."--@outofplace
"A teacher of mature age is having interpersonal relations with a teenaged student in an American state."--@poindexter
Wait, Dave, the newspaper office in San Jose is not actually 15 minutes from Lake Tahoe.

Posts like this can always be attributed to human error. [/HAL 9000 version of AI]
 
Between hedge fund ownership, CYA management, editorial AI and digital photography, there literally is nothing to trust about today's journalism.
 
I don't know if AI is to blame, but I saw a copy of the Register-Guard at a 7-11, might have been the Sunday paper. The main A-1 headline above the fold was "Places to see fall color in the Willamette Valley." Honestly. Back in the day, that might be lead art on a "Life" section on a slow day when nothing else was popping.
What we used to call a"bulldog" (the shell of an edit section with all the ads and inserts) that came out on Saturday afternoon is now THE Sunday section.
 
What we used to call a"bulldog" (the shell of an edit section with all the ads and inserts) that came out on Saturday afternoon is now THE Sunday section.

If you still have ads and inserts. In the good 'ol days I worked briefly in "custom publications" at a Gannett shop, writing/laying out the real estate section, autos, the occasional multipage special section that some local company paid healthy money for. On rare occasions when I explain that to someone now, I hold my thumb and forefinger a couple inches apart and say "when the Sunday paper used to be this big, I did the stuff in the middle you'd toss aside before reading sports."
 

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