Plain Dealer Indians writers will only cover "select" road trips

A more likely scenario is a player getting into trouble in the offseason. Maybe something serious happens in, say, Eagle, Colo.

Your writer isn't going to be there.

 

Also an excellent point.

 

Not if there was some other change that adversely affected the bottom line. Like say a massive shift in medium to a delivery method attached to tiny ad revenues. Which is exactly what happened.

 

Depends on whether you count the TV station which televises their games.

 

The custom elsewhere in the chain has been to attribute quotes to the postgame radio show.

 

Probably more noticeable, but major papers that tout their "watchdog" responsibilities have been blowing off city council meetings for years.

 

Apples and pears. TV just needs a few moments of action for a routine regular season game. Come playoffs, though, you want some of your own stories for the station's "We're your station for Podunk Pudpullers basketball" campaign.

 

Are you seriously comparing a print beat writer's coverage of a team with a local TV station's? It's highlights versus actual reporting. Big difference.

 

Um, no. We're all pissed about the industry, but that's not "justice."

 

Baseball box scores? "Nobody reads that stuff."
Daily sports columnist? "Nobody reads that stuff."
Prep high school coverage? "Nobody reads that stuff."
MLB road game coverage ... you see where this is going

And yes, the same thing's happening in news with local government coverage/"watchdog" journalism.

Pretty soon customers say, "The Podunk Press? There's nothing in there worth reading."

 

They've been saying that for a few years now. But we'll be much worse off than Trump without legitimate media to expose the bullshit.

 

In fact an argument might be able to be made that Trump is an extension of the lack of interest in legitimate info.