Change to Bengals's Beat Reporters

[SunsetBengal]

(06-15-2023, 09:23 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: I think social media has kind of killed journalism in some respects.

When is the last time you've truly read a piece/publication regarding the Bengals, Reds, etc? I feel like I know everything there is to know about the Bengals and barely read any articles about them....it's all blurbed out on social media or blogs, especially twitter. It also doesn't help that the Bengals beat guys really don't have much to offer when it comes to "insider" info. They aren't plugged in at all and the national guys are the ones that usually break the scoops. 

Sad to say but I think journalism is just a dying breed. People don't have the attention span for it anymore and its all about obtaining information in the fastest way possible, not by spending 10 minutesreading an actual article. 

Not only has the proliferation of social media killed traditional journalism with the never ending race to "be the first" to break the news, but also how much bad info has been "leaked" in those attempts?  It's so bad in relation to sports reporting these days, that there now seems to be a market for trade "scenarios" in which there really is no actual news to tell about, just one glorified fan/reporter's "take" on "how this could work".