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

[Roy Lamberton]

Willie, you just put an exclamation point on the issue:

A comedy guy doing an interview with a newspaper spokesman on Cable, then
put over on the web....

Who needs newspapers?

rsl 

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-----Original Message-----
From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com [mailto:nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com] On
Behalf Of Weinbaum, Willie
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 7:44 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: RE: [NU Sports] FW: re: decimated Chi. Trib. sports staff

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

-----Original Message-----
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
sjtruog at yahoo.com
GO CATS!!!




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