Do Reporters Report anymore?

[Hawkstorian]

Seems like all the Seattle media does it post tweets. Bob Condotta is basically sitting in his underwear scouring twitter for "news". We're doing the same thing here but the difference he's getting paid for it. How do I get that gig?

 

[HawkFan72]

Seems like all the Seattle media does it post tweets. Bob Condotta is basically sitting in his underwear scouring twitter for "news". We're doing the same thing here but the difference he's getting paid for it. How do I get that gig?

There have been many days I have thought about trying to get into sports "news". I'm pretty good at scouring the internet for the newest news and, you're right, that's basically all you have to do today. Most of us do it for free. It would be awesome to get paid for it.

 

[sutz]

Perhaps as the season starts we'll see more 'reporting' and less of the tabloid stuff.

 

[jammerhawk]

The Times has genuinely gone downhill leaving only TNT as any reliable local source of team info. Their policy of requiring readers to become subscribers to read their weak sauce online also causes me to ignore them more and more.

We are better here than most other so called 'reporters'.

 

[Rocket]

Journalism died years ago.

 

[hox]

Of the local papers, I think the TNT is one of the better ones when it comes to Seahawks coverage.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/seattle-seahawks

http://blog.thenewstribune.com/seahawks/

 

[Happypuppy]

Journalism died years ago.

That is the truth once big corporations started buying up news outlets both print and broadcast it was the end of real journalism. It is pretty bad when the grand papers the Washington Post and Times, Wall Street Journal etc were sold and purchased. Look who was breaking all the Snowden stuff? Papers in the UK mostly the Guardian.

The Seattle Times is the sister of the Sam Francisco Chronicle from Hearst. The " news " they print tends these days to be seems to be sensationalized and heavily biased with SF Bay Area ideas and views vs PNW views.

Beat reporters still exist and some are very good. Danny O' Neil I enjoyed, Sando and Clayton. All have moved away from print media. Brewer is pretty good. I have little hope for the Everett herald. It is now owned by a Canadian Company.

 

[Anonymous]

Sadly, the days of reporters swarming to get scraps then scrambling to the telephone booth to call the editor, are over.

I blame technology mostly but Puppy is right on the money. Literally.

 

[Hawkstorian]

To me it come down to: Are you a tweeter or a re-tweeter?

Seattle beat writers are just a bunch of re-tweeters.

 

[TDBinOLY]

Well said.

I buy the Seattle Times......mainly for the crossword puzzles and sports section. I would love to see some proper sports journalism.

 

[TDBinOLY]

And I miss Steve Kelley.....he wasn't a re-tweeter.

 

[TDBinOLY]

And I miss Steve Kelley.....he wasn't a re-tweeter.

 

[Coug_Hawk08]

I miss Ron Burgundy.

 

[pinksheets]

They do, but they also do the Twitter thing. The legit reporters tend to hold themselves to higher standards. Go look at Davis Hsu's (a blogger/twitter guy) timeline in the 2-3 days after MRob got cut (which he predicted). It's a masturbatory display that's truly embarrassing for him, and he's one of the better guys in the blogger/Twitter range of things. It is a reminder that you can't expect professionalism from an amateur, though.

 

[Seahawk Sailor]

News breaks on Twitter so fast that if reporters want to be in on the action, that's where they have to go. I can't count the number of times where something big broke, I saw it via Twitter, and could only find traditional sources reporting on it hours later. Professionals are still professionals, and amateurs are still amateurs; the media they use is just evolving.

 

[RockHawk]

News breaks on Twitter so fast that if reporters want to be in on the action, that's where they have to go. I can't count the number of times where something big broke, I saw it via Twitter, and could only find traditional sources reporting on it hours later. Professionals are still professionals, and amateurs are still amateurs; the media they use is just evolving.

Right, but I think the point is that good journalists that work hard will most likely be the ones breaking the news (via twitter or otherwise) and the lazy ones that Hawkstorian is referencing will always be the ones "retweeting" and writing an article about.

 

[HawkAroundTheClock]

I graduated from journalism school in the dark ages of 1997. Even at the time, I knew a lot of the principles we were grilled on were merely academic. But as internet resources and corporate conglomeration have taken over, I can't even imagine what those kids in J school right now are learning. Hooray for useless degrees!

 

[Jville]

Speaking of disappointing reporting, Seattle may have gotten the shaft with the reporter changes at ESPN. Terry Blount is assigned to cover the Seahawks.

But he comes off pro 49er with his stick a finger in Seattle's eye piece today.

Check it out >>>> [urltargetblank]http://espn.go.com/blog/nfcwest/post/_/id/108100/adding-fuel-to-the-seahawks-49ers-rivalry[/urltargetblank]

 

[Lords of Scythia]

The Times lost me too when they switched to the subscription BS. The TNT is still free and is on a whole other level of sportswriting than the crappy Times. The Times might've screwed up bad.

 

[CANHawk]

I have little hope for the Everett herald. It is now owned by a Canadian Company.

What you trying to say Brah!?

Sorry but I have to lol at you. You're all upset that big American companies are buying up your newspapers, complaining that the only good news comes from the UK and proclaim a newspaper doomed because it's owned by heathen communist Canadians? Lolwut?