BoxingRobes
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Nice companion piece to the "Why does Miami media suck so much" thread.
Avenues like sbnation, early bleacherreport, etc. are some of the key reasons why sports journalism absolutely stinks. Those were avenues that let people get published for content - not the quality, but the quantity of it - and people did it FOR FREE, some would make poverty wages and those companies became very lucrative as a result of using "freelance" sports writers. It made sports writing and sports journalism worthless, and unlike say - a Youtuber who makes money by generating content - the individual doing the writing made very little, if nothing at all generating content. Slideshows ranking nonsense and clickbait nonsense generated clicks and revenue...good, solid, sports journalism did not. ...and here we are.
Avenues like sbnation, early bleacherreport, etc. are some of the key reasons why sports journalism absolutely stinks. Those were avenues that let people get published for content - not the quality, but the quantity of it - and people did it FOR FREE, some would make poverty wages and those companies became very lucrative as a result of using "freelance" sports writers. It made sports writing and sports journalism worthless, and unlike say - a Youtuber who makes money by generating content - the individual doing the writing made very little, if nothing at all generating content. Slideshows ranking nonsense and clickbait nonsense generated clicks and revenue...good, solid, sports journalism did not. ...and here we are.