Supreme Court justices, TV sports writers share bond
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I was going to write this item for my Friday newspaper column, then I said to myself, "Self, no one cares about this other than people in the media or media junkies, so why not stick it in the blog, which is predominantly read by people in the media or media junkies."
So here it is: Did you know there are fewer than 10 newspapers in the nation that employ a full-time sports media and/or ...
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Diminishing ranks of sports media columnists--Neil Best
Published 5/9/2008 by susan mullen (noreply@blogger.com) at XM MLB Chat
Mr. Best remains among the select few sports media/business columnists, as he notes today in his Watchdog blog:
"Did you know there are fewer than 10 newspapers in the nation that employ a full-time sports media and/or business columnist? This is way, way down from 10-20 years ago, presumably because as newspapers attempt to get leaner and meaner, the media beat is among the first things to go.... ...We're roughly as common as Supreme Court justices. All four New York papers have full-time people in the role, perhaps no ...
