Who needs SI when you have Bleacher Report?

At least that's what CNN seems to be asking.

Starting next month, it appears that CNN will be discontinuing its relationship with Sports Illustrated in favor of Bleacher Report. Link: http://www.cnn.com/cnn-sports-is-changing/

If this is the future of journalism, count me out ...

 

Well, Turner bought Bleacher Report.

 

Saw an ad on CNN.com about this around a week and a half ago. Could do nothing but roll my eyes and sigh. I'm not saying there are good writers at B/r and this isn't a surprise given Turner's purchase of B/r. But seriously.

 

Sports journalism is becoming the new sweat shop. We'll all be hunkered down over our laptops 13 hours a day churning out briefs and tweets for pennies.

 

But still not for the Plain Dealer.

 

Ouch, Dools.

 

That was 4 cents worth.

 

Good luck generating ad revenue.

 

What simpletons (Turner). Commenting about B/R would be superfluous.

 

IJAG got it right.

http://www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/posts/3408682/

 

I think that Bleacher Report is an abomination.

But at the same time, we have to face the fact that sports writing, in particular, and reporting to an extent, as well, has been de-valued in the last 10-15 years.

News writing reporting, too, but sports in particular. Too many people with access to too much information. It's not just the Internet, either, although that's a big part of it. It's the proliferation of games on television, as well.

 

So you mean the five-hour pregame shows on network television are a bit much?