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<blockquote data-quote="Ransom Stoddard" data-source="post: 1309714" data-attributes="member: 10336"><p>I agree with all of this, and I think ESPN over-estimated the market for a lot of their "content." When you look at who was let go it was a lot of writers who might have a couple of short on-camera segments per week, most of which was just a re-hash of their online columns. A lot of ESPN's "news" consisted of interviews with sports writers about their opinions as opposed to interviews with people who actually participate in the team/sport/whatever.</p><p></p><p>This is also true for journalism in general, where it seems that recapping random tweets about the latest event is in some way enlightening and educational to the public at large, rather than compiling actual facts, doing research, and, you know, actual reporting. Such is life in the post-information age.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ransom Stoddard, post: 1309714, member: 10336"] I agree with all of this, and I think ESPN over-estimated the market for a lot of their "content." When you look at who was let go it was a lot of writers who might have a couple of short on-camera segments per week, most of which was just a re-hash of their online columns. A lot of ESPN's "news" consisted of interviews with sports writers about their opinions as opposed to interviews with people who actually participate in the team/sport/whatever. This is also true for journalism in general, where it seems that recapping random tweets about the latest event is in some way enlightening and educational to the public at large, rather than compiling actual facts, doing research, and, you know, actual reporting. Such is life in the post-information age. [/QUOTE]
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