Jay Mariotti Continues To Make Sense; World May Implode
MOUTHPIECE Blog // A Chicago-Addled Sports Blog —
Jay Mariotti: so hot right now. The latest? He hit the talk radio circuit here in Chicago this morning and expanded on what he told the Trib last evening. And yeah: he’s saying everything bloggers and savvy media peeps have been saying for a few years now. The Internet pwns print. Some highlights from his 670 The Score interview (link to the audio), graciously picked up over at TBL:
“The print product is dead. It all has to be fed into the internet product now. The internet is going to save the written word. We’re ...
Links: Dollars And Sense
SLAM Online —
... In this way, sports franchises remind me of the newspaper industry. Earlier today, sports columnist Jay Mariotti announced he was leaving the Chicago Sun-Times because sports journalism has become “entirely a Web site business.” According to The Big Lead, Mariotti also said, “Yahoo got something like 30 million hits during the Olympics. These places are for real. They’re legit. It’s just something we’re all going to have to come to grips with. Our fathers may read a newspaper over coffee, but I don’t know anyone under 40 who is picking up a newspaper and reading ...
Where will Jay Mariotti end up?
Press Row —
Like him or not—and I don’t think many do—Jay Mariotti’s departure from the Chicago Sun-Times leaves yet another sizeable void in the sports newspaper world.
While his editor seems to think Mariotti’s strange exit will produce some mysterious spike in readership, bringing back all those jilted Chicagoans that just boycotted the paper because of Mariotti, that is simply not realistic. If those readers subscribe to newspapers in the Chicago area, then that means they’re probably already subscribers of the Tribune, and ...
AaronGleeman.com — ... relying less on content that can be found elsewhere will be key to bringing in new readers. Speaking of newspapers, Jay Mariotti resigned from the Chicago Sun Times earlier this week after 17 years as columnist. Mariotti is an example of nearly everything wrong with mainstream sportswriting and while he may never realize that most people have been laughing at him rather than with him, he does seem to have a pretty good grasp of what's happening to the newspaper industry: I feel like ...
