Four Central Kentucky newspapers doing away with their sports departments.
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TDS is making more people sick than the corona virus.
It is the ease and speed of transmission that is the threat from what I've read.
Lol..."sport"? Its 2020...not the Roaring Twenties. Yeah, you clearly have a firm grasp on where things are headed. Spare me the stories about walking uphill both ways. Newspaper is dead. Deal with it.
Schools of Journalism are a waste of tuition money and newspapers are useless. They are the ones at fault for their demise. If they had stuck to telling the truth and reporting facts it might have turned out differently
They will not be missed.
They will not be missed.
The sports pages have become another way to spread the leftist message. They were not happy with just every other part of the newspaper. So they injected it into sports writing and sport in general. Hopefully the news media fails before taking down sports itself.
The money just isn’t there. Businesses aren’t going to spend their money to advertise in the paper when they can do it cheaper on line on a bigger site and more often than not free on social media.
Bloggers give you the same opinion as a a sports columnist but they do it cheaper and faster
Bloggers give you the same opinion as a a sports columnist but they do it cheaper and faster
This is my fear. Sports getting so deep into politics it kills the game.
There's no left wing/right wing reason for the demise of newspapers. It's simply a matter of most people not wanting to pay to read yesterday's news. My wife subscribes to the St Lucie Tribune and USA Today, which also gives us digital access to them. The Tribune does an awesome job covering high school sports here on the Treasure Coast, and all of their news coverage on the website is updated as it happens. She just likes having that paper to hold. I keep trying to get her to drop the print editions and pay for digital only, which are cheaper, but she's stubborn. She says she likes getting the sales papers. I show her how you can get the weekly ads online, but it doesn't phase her.
Back in Tennessee, the Times-News may as well fold their sports department too. They have minimal coverage of high school sports, and there is a group of guys who used to write for them and a couple of other local papers who started a website to give in-depth coverage to local college and high school sports, and it's been pretty successful.
At any rate, you want pro/college scores/box scores? Look online. You want high school scores/box scores? It's online. You want to look at the classifieds? Tons of stuff/real estate/vehicles sales are available online. Hell, even the funny papers are online.
Back in Tennessee, the Times-News may as well fold their sports department too. They have minimal coverage of high school sports, and there is a group of guys who used to write for them and a couple of other local papers who started a website to give in-depth coverage to local college and high school sports, and it's been pretty successful.
At any rate, you want pro/college scores/box scores? Look online. You want high school scores/box scores? It's online. You want to look at the classifieds? Tons of stuff/real estate/vehicles sales are available online. Hell, even the funny papers are online.
dude you are using far too much rationality for a cat pause thread.
fixing papers is easy, include nudies
I grew up with a real “outhouse”. Newspapers were the toilet paper. And while I’ve made a modest living and can afford the real thing, it brings back good memories of my childhood to use newspaper occasionally. On the days before I make my gut-cleaning chili, I always go out and get a Lexington Herald. The sports section catches the brunt of it. It’s satisfying.
Thanks for not making this a political thread. Let me guess, you just happen to be a conservative.
Interestingly enough poster is right. The Tennessean is nearly dead because it stopped most all high school covering and is totally liberal with its political opinions. Parents like to read about their kids and older conservatives bought the papers. I stopped mine a year ago
My local paper has half their stories seemingly being reprints of AP articles so what’s the point of paying for that?
He's a worth less dick, plain and simple. Haven't bought one of their papers in years
I will admit print media overall is dying. But our local sports reporter -Evan Dennison does so much more than just the paper. I couldn’t imagine not being able to click on his Twitter account to get updates and insights. The sheer amount of time the sports reporters put in to give us articles, special editions, and overall coverage to me is essential to the sports environment in our local areas.
Its really sad in a small town. As a kid growing up and playing ball for my high school, I still have parts of sports pages that my parents kept when I played. It was always cool to have your name in print with a pic showing what you did or how much you scored. Sports in my hometown was the ONLY entertainment there was and buying the newspaper to read about it the next day was a tradition. These youngsters won't never get to have that thrill so its another thing that won't be around anymore. I wish someone would step up and do a family paper without all the trash of telling you who to like and who to vote for and just make it about the community but I guess that wouldn't sell.
At one time we had the telegraph system of communicating news. Which ironically, was actually quicker than the printed page to a small number of people. However, times change and people's attention spans are much, much shorter.
Local newspapers used to have "community news" and "society sections" but, those have gone away too. Very few people get their news from a physical newspaper anymore.
I know lots of people who just can't stand the liberal slant they see in headlines and on opinion pages these days. Most have just cancelled or not re-subscribed. It amazes me that a institution that is in obvious financial peril would voluntarily choose to alienate half of their potential readers. But, real reporting is dead anyway so, I guess my expectations are a little out of line.
Local newspapers used to have "community news" and "society sections" but, those have gone away too. Very few people get their news from a physical newspaper anymore.
I know lots of people who just can't stand the liberal slant they see in headlines and on opinion pages these days. Most have just cancelled or not re-subscribed. It amazes me that a institution that is in obvious financial peril would voluntarily choose to alienate half of their potential readers. But, real reporting is dead anyway so, I guess my expectations are a little out of line.
I don't think Lexington is more liberal than the rest of the state. Florence likely is.
Louisville and then Lexington are. Its simple demographics. Or just look up county voting results
sad but true the newer generation gets all their info and news from their phones or social media.
True old fashion journalism is kind of a dyeing art.
Newspapers and the media in general started going down hill beginning with the Watergate reporting. While I have no problem with reporting the facts, it seems media types began trying to be the next Woodward and Bernstein. It's like they were no longer interested in doing the only thing they were really talented enough to do...reporting facts, writers and reporters wanted to develop a reputation...win a nobel prize or something. Perfect example was the uk bball thing in the late 80's. It's like the reporter/reporters wanted to make a name for themselves...again, versus simply regurgitating the news and facts. They got their day in the sun but hurt D Casey, whom I still believe go the shaft.
The problem with this? I have no problem with anyone wanting to make it to the top of their chosen profession, but it's like they now are more interested in being societal architects; they want to shape society. They are among the least qualified of all professions to take on that task.
A KU booster that cheats for them owns the company that owns the LHL... and you see the LHL and its negative UK slant..... jeez I wonder if the KU booster likes Tipton trying to catch UK cheating etc. hmmm
I remember back in the 90s I was a huge NBA fan (still am). We didn't have cable so I relied on the sports talk radio to give me the scores from the previous night (praying I wouldn't miss the score rundown). I would come home from school around 3pm to read the box scores to gain a detailed view of how the players performed. Looking back it saddens me that it will no longer be that way but at the same time, speed and convience is what we are looking for in our society.
There is no one answer but the demise of print news began years ago. The internet does not explain the demise of multiple news papers in most large cities. Louisville had the CJ and Louisville Times plus the Voice. I cancelled my CJ subscription because of overt anti UK bias and years of total left wing bias on their OpEd page. I am not and was not the only person to cancel because of leftist open contempt in their OpEd and ultimately into their straight reporting of news. FORTUNATELY the internet came along and news aggregators like Drudge. But these were well after the print media had started to fall on hard times. The internet and 24-hr cable news were the death blow.
I don’t know, the editor of the Herald Leader came to our church back in the mid nineties to get opinions on how to improve the local paper. There were several comments but I asked him why do they play favorites with political candidates and tell us who to vote for instead of just giving us the facts and letting us decide? He said it was the paper’s place to let the public know who was best for the job and that wouldn’t change. So I told him that many disagree and he wasn’t improving the paper by doing this and he said he was sorry but it was policy.
Poetic- don’t know what you did after that response but it would have been hard for me to not get up and walk out of the church right then and there. Y’all were in a church, supposed to be worshipping God, who supposedly gave us a brain to think for ourselves, and this guy is saying basically you aren’t smart enough to decide for yourselves, so this is how you should vote. I’m religious, but quit going to church years ago for those same type reasons. That’s just me, but I’ll be damned if I let someone think for me when I’m perfectly capable of thinking for myself.
I live in Indianapolis and a former neighbor of mine is a sports reporter for the Indianapolis Star. They keep cutting staff and he hangs on because he is one of the better reporters. Since the CJ and the Indy Star are both owned by Gannett, they don't send any reporters to the Kentucky Derby anymore, they just pick up on the CJ's coverage, and CJ does the same with their Indy 500 coverage. He doesn't even have a desk at the office, he works out of his house, and sporting events he covers. He is the beat reporter for Butler basketball, plus he does track and field. He went to the last olympics, but it is not likely he will go to the one this year.
Thank you...scrolled thru to see if anyone else was gonna call him out. FOH with giving your opinion but asking others to keep quite.
Don’t know where you get your info but things go on in Lex that would get people killed in conservative spots of our state. Check the voting records Lex is without a doubt more liberal than the rural parts of our state. Northern Ky might be liberal also but almost nowhere is more liberal than Lex.
