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Didn’t the LA Times get rid of its Dodgers beat writer
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https://x.com/ByJackHarris/status/1754230859346092234?s=20 they rehired him after they realized what a colossal mistake that would be
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habeasdorkus posted:What's especially dumb is that newspapers that were basically profitable even if shrinking in market share got gobbled up by Gannett and Gannett's successors to be cored out so finance bros could do coke off of increasingly expensive prostitutes on increasingly large yachts. McClatchey's management may be even worse. McClatchey didn't buy as many papers as Gannett, but hooo boy they might have strip mined even worse. Facebook and digital coupons did a pretty big number on newspaper sales. Facebook replaced society pages.
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Mar 13, 2024 06:27
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Facebook and digital coupons did a pretty big number on newspaper sales. Facebook replaced society pages. Digital coupons, job boards, craigslist/FB marketplace really took away probably the core reason so many people actually interacted with newspapers. For most, journalism was mostly window dressing.
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Lockback posted:Digital coupons, job boards, craigslist/FB marketplace really took away probably the core reason so many people actually interacted with newspapers. For most, journalism was mostly window dressing. I dunno about this. Reading the paper was an every-morning activity, complete with swapping sections when people were done reading and stuff. I suppose this might not have been a typical experience. My neighbor from back home still mails me clippings from the Boston Globe that she thinks I might find interesting periodically. 
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Lockback posted:Digital coupons, job boards, craigslist/FB marketplace really took away probably the core reason so many people actually interacted with newspapers. For most, journalism was mostly window dressing. If not the core reason, certainly the core income stream. Having a near-monopoly on local advertising for certain things was a nice way to pay for the journalism.
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SI may not be dead after all https://twitter.com/BenMullin/status/1769710587825520942?s=20
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FlamingLiberal posted:SI may not be dead after all Barbers around the country are celebrating.
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harperdc posted:If not the core reason, certainly the core income stream. Having a near-monopoly on local advertising for certain things was a nice way to pay for the journalism. It's always wild to pull up a digital archive of an old newspaper and see how much paper was dedicated to classifieds. I remember thumbing through newspapers as a kid too and just seeing how massive they were. Old New York Times weekend papers had so many pages of classifieds it was wild. It's also fun to look at the old papers and you could see how much money the newspapers had. A medium sized newspaper in a medium sized city might still send 8 reporters to Seoul or something for the 88 Olympics.
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soggybagel posted:It's always wild to pull up a digital archive of an old newspaper and see how much paper was dedicated to classifieds. Secondary sports section with four pages of content and 16 more of cars and boats for sale. Was wild. Sunday editions of The Oregonian with a stack of advertisement flyers and catalogs from all the big-box stores. I even remember the magazines being enormous, the famous November/December issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly being 300+ pages back in 1999 or 2000. Enormous books.
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Mar 19, 2024 04:54
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Hobbyist magazines were crazy for ads. One of the ones I still subscribe to would have a single ad that stretched for six pages, three columns per page, and just a list of products and prices in like six point font. More a price list than an ad for anything. Now it is barely the size of a business card because how much space do you need to get someone to your website.
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Mar 19, 2024 19:03
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apparently bill simmons has been filming himself walking through his fancy neighborhood yelling sports takes into his phone camera and imagining someone seeing him power walking while holding a selfie stick and yelling about the patriots is unbearably funny to me. https://awfulannouncing.com/nfl/bill-simmons-super-cheap-patriots.html
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Mar 20, 2024 04:34
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R.D. Mangles posted:apparently bill simmons has been filming himself walking through his fancy neighborhood yelling I guess there were worse ways this sentence could end
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Mar 20, 2024 04:36
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Algund Eenboom posted:I guess there were worse ways this sentence could end jesus christ lmao
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Mar 20, 2024 04:38
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Algund Eenboom posted:I guess there were worse ways this sentence could end 
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Algund Eenboom posted:I guess there were worse ways this sentence could end 
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Simmons hasn't lived in Boston for 20 years, why do his opinions on the Patriots matter anymore?
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The X-man cometh posted:Simmons hasn't lived in Boston for 20 years, why do his opinions on the Patriots matter anymore? That's the tricky part. They don't, except to him.
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To be clear, you can have opinions about sports teams without actually living there, that's fine. You shouldn't care about Simmon's opinions because they are generally pretty terrible.
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Mar 20, 2024 17:37
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Because of course https://twitter.com/josephfcox/status/1770805430479913248?s=20
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Mar 21, 2024 17:41
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FlamingLiberal posted:Because of course lol
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Mar 21, 2024 18:09
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So it turns out the Kim Mulkey WaPo article she was freaking out about was a completely normal profile, and even the "harshest" parts largely cover stuff that was already a matter of public record. One of the underhanded journalistic tactics she objected to was "contacting her family to discuss things Mulkey wrote about in her autobiography"
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I don’t really follow NCAAB so I knew some of it but not all, and it’s a one stop shop for how awful she is. I bet she was mad, yeah.
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Mar 30, 2024 16:30
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God that was an exquisite example of the Streisand Effect
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Mar 30, 2024 17:05
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That's not even like that bad of an article lol It largely boils down to, didn't say poo poo about Griner, might not like queer people, and is a tough and structured coach to her players. All poo poo that literally everyone knows already who follows WBB. She literally brought more attention than it would ever receive because most people in that world know all this poo poo.
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Mar 30, 2024 17:54
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Dexo posted:That's not even like that bad of an article lol Honestly makes her look worse for doing that which is ironic since she was so salty about it hurting her image
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Mar 30, 2024 18:02
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She had the same “hit piece” accusation about an article he wrote a couple years ago that was far more about what Brian Kelly was being paid in light of Louisiana’s poverty problems, as opposed to something about Brian himself.
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Mar 30, 2024 18:15
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College coaches are petty and paranoid, news at 11
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e: wt
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Big-shot college coach is an unpleasant hardass sometimes, stop the loving presses.
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guess this sums up what the plan is at si https://x.com/rohannadkarni/status/1774856016754032672?s=46
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Apr 1, 2024 19:13
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Defector needs to hire him He goes on Drew and Roth’s podcast all the time
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Vertical Lime posted:guess this sums up what the plan is at si man that sounds like a fuckin awesome way to kill some time off
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DJExile posted:man that sounds like a fuckin awesome way to kill some time off One of the new employee questions I got asked for our introductory email at my current job was "What would you do with 3 free hours?" and my response was that it was the perfect amount of time to watch Heat again. Several people Slacked me on the my first day to talk about how much they love that movie.
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I hear that Austin Butler is going to play Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) in Heat 2 and I'm 110% on board with that after seeing him in Dune Part 2
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He's gonna have a scene where he sticks his tongue out and tries to give himself a papercut with a stolen hundred dollar bill
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FlamingLiberal posted:Defector needs to hire him He can have his own column writing mainly about sandwiches
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Mr. Fix It posted:I hear that Austin Butler is going to play Chris Shiherlis (Val Kilmer) in Heat 2 and I'm 110% on board with that after seeing him in Dune Part 2 Yeah, there's a short clip of him doing some range work with a racegun Glock and everybody was like "HEAT 2!!!!!!" and it can definitely work.
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Sounds like SBNation is killing their podcasts: https://x.com/scottcoleman55/status/1775963486784458846
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I read so much SBNation material in its heyday. Vox has been so inept at handling that platform for years. Jon Bois may be the only thing keeping them afloat at this point.
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