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The last few weeks I have been gleaning every story bout the trades and FA signings the Rams have made. Admittedly, these "stories" are free because I'm cheap. I don't want to pay the "Insiders" price at ESPN, and I don't pay for any content that I can find at no cost.
You get what you pay for.
Even so, I have read stories produced by brick & mortar newspaper internet sites who have given in to twitter reporting. When I click on a story and see several twitter quotes Rapoport, Schefter, and others, I wonder why the journalist even bothered writing anything? Has journalism been reduced to compiling twitter posts from other reporters? It's easier friending "sources" for a twitter story that actually calling them even for a phone interview...let alone sitting down with them for an hour with questions. It just feels like as a society, we've moved the patio furniture to the living room. It's comfortable, cheap, and doesn't belong there. But it's really cheap and easy, so who has time to go to IKEA?
You get what you pay for.
Even so, I have read stories produced by brick & mortar newspaper internet sites who have given in to twitter reporting. When I click on a story and see several twitter quotes Rapoport, Schefter, and others, I wonder why the journalist even bothered writing anything? Has journalism been reduced to compiling twitter posts from other reporters? It's easier friending "sources" for a twitter story that actually calling them even for a phone interview...let alone sitting down with them for an hour with questions. It just feels like as a society, we've moved the patio furniture to the living room. It's comfortable, cheap, and doesn't belong there. But it's really cheap and easy, so who has time to go to IKEA?
