NY Mag feature on Shams

[Octave]

La Canfora is still at CBS Sports, is he not? I recall him saying he left his scoop job at NFL Network because of burnout. He had young kids at the time, and you never get that time back.

 

[Octave]

"sports" "writing" is mostly now a matter of metrics, betting odds and the transaction wire.

That is depressing, but valid as hell. Pure fanhood = the dodo.

 

[AD]

big picture: the victory of numbers over words, speed over music, money over craft.

 

[MileHigh]

La Canfora is still at CBS Sports, is he not? I recall him saying he left his scoop job at NFL Network because of burnout. He had young kids at the time, and you never get that time back.

CBS dumped him last year.

 

[John]

La Canfora is still at CBS Sports, is he not? I recall him saying he left his scoop job at NFL Network because of burnout. He had young kids at the time, and you never get that time back.

He writes a few times a week for the Post during football season and has a radio show in Baltimore. Also appears on Kornheiser's show on Fridays.

 

[Slacker]

You really learn to respect guys like Jay Wright, who saw how things were changing and said nah, I'm good and content w/my legacy as is, time to stop missing movies, holidays, etc.

Yeah, this right here.

 

[Octave]

big picture: the victory of numbers over words, speed over music, money over craft.

I think we've learned quite a bit about our fellow travellers during the last generation of time or so.
They don't want what we sell, and they mean it this time.
Jefferson always said a generation lasts about 17 or 18 years.
That was about how long it took print journalism to die.

I had a kid come to my door yesterday trying to sell me some kind of Wi-Fi ship. There wasn't anything in the world that would have made me give him the three or five minutes to make his presentation. I didn't have time, I didn't care and I wasn't interested. They aren't interested in newspapers' way of doing things, either. For a number of reasons.

I spent quite a bit of time (!!!) in a rest home lately and not one (1) person I saw was reading a newspaper. Not a one.