One year later... Whitlock talks to The Big Lead again...

This interview is why The Big Lead is so much fucking better than SMG and their fluffy interviews...

http://www.thebiglead.com

It's just great.

 

This makes it a little easier...

http://thebiglead.com/?p=3359#more-3359

 

"on blast"!

 

I noticed this question:

Q: What should newspapers be doing in the new millennium? And why not leave newspapers all together and go strictly to the net where all the sports fans are anyway?

God, what an a-hole.

 

I think it's a legit question in light of all the recent hires by Yahoo, ESPN and other internet sites.

 

Your last sentence is unsupportable, and top columnists in newspapers outnumber those on the Internet by a large factor still. Jeff Passen going to Yahoo isn't the dagger for newspapers.

 

I love this line:

"Albom and APSE poisoned the art of column writing and turned the job into an exercise in writing feature stories that the subjects can frame and hang in their basements."

I've had similar thoughts for a long time.

 

Who said anything about a dagger? I think you're reaching. Fact: more than a couple writers have left newspapers for the net in the last year. Is Whitlock next? Legit question.

Of course columnists outnumber those on the internet ... there are four, maybe five sites. There are far more newspapers.

 

I agree completely. Newspapers are in trouble and the only big hires lately seem to be going to the websites. It's a sign of what's to come.

 

So there are no sports fans reading newspapers? Typical "let's kill all the newspapers" snark.

 

Well, the websites aren't asking their employees to take buyouts...