[NU Sports] FW: re: decimated Chi. Trib. sports staff

[Weinbaum, Willie]

Very sad situation with newspapers.  NU alum Stephen Colbert recently did a comic segment with a Newspaper Association of America rep. - - here's the video:

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/223281/march-31-2009/better-know-a-lobby---newspaper-lobby

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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On Behalf Of SjT (Stephen J. Truog)
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 1:35 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] FW: re: decimated Chi. Trib. sports staff


I know a lot of people take delight in the recent demise of newspapers, and a lot of them say that they get all their news from the Internet anyway.

But I wonder when the readers will realize that even that info on the Internet still comes from somewhere, and without these newspaper organizations to bring coverage of football games, stats, features, etc. it's basically going to be press releases from SID offices and bloggers. And they have their place, but I certainly wouldn't want my daily sports report to be all dry SIDspeak full of typos and raving blogger bait.

And I know we never got as much local love from the Chicago press as the Doh!mers, but with resources spread thin already, you wonder if the AP will even send a stringer to some of those games in Evanston. I seem to remember a Duke game in recent years where I couldn't find a writeup online, even with the AP. Good luck with Indiana-NU recaps in the future!

Oh well, some of us will mourn the days when we'd fight the brisk wind to pick up both the Trib and Sun Times from the corner machines and settle in for some nice breakfast reading at the dining halls on a chilly Evanston morning.:(

GO CATS!!!
-SjT

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STEPHEN J. TRUOG
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GO CATS!!!




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