State of the biz: Not much better across the pond

[Furry Tractor]

Interesting, if overly lengthy, take on the state of sports journalism in England by Andy Bull in The Guardian today:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/may/13/1

Quotations command space, but rarely interest. If it wasn't enough to know that a player was injured, we now also have to know that the manager and a selection of former players think he is a "huge loss to the side", and we will be told all of this in print, on the radio and 24 hours a day by Sky Sports News. These quotes come in three forms: the interesting, the mundane and the untrue. The volume of lineage and airtime spent relaying other peoples' words means that the majority fall into the last two categories.

 

[forever_town]

Published by those bastions of objective, impartial journalistic excellence...

Pot. Kettle. Do the math!