tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11175154.post7344904590758925025..comments2024-03-22T05:48:26.129-05:00Comments on Braves & Birds: A Brave New World Post that Doesn't Cover the BravesMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08365733949431139562noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11175154.post-34714448610906955482009-05-02T06:59:00.000-05:002009-05-02T06:59:00.000-05:00Blog is really informative and entertainng same ti...Blog is really informative and entertainng same time. I appriciate the efforts made by you.WrestleMania ticketshttp://www.myticketin.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11175154.post-45807790337212364112009-03-17T23:25:00.000-05:002009-03-17T23:25:00.000-05:00Michael, I get your point, but I'd use your politi...Michael, I get your point, but I'd use your politics/sports analogy to liken folks who watch games and blog to the people who watch CSPAN and blog -- they are watching the raw essence of sports/politics, but they can't tell you the story behind the story. Unless he has as a resource a reporter in the locker room, or attending the press conferences, or using his network of contacts to know how contract negotiations are going, the blogger watching the Braves/Phillies game is inherently limited to what happens between the lines. If he wants to understand why Kelly Johnson didn't start, or how Cox plans to deal with the injury to Chipper Jones, or the story behind Chase Utley's hard slide into Escobar, he's just got to hope it's important enough to catch ESPN's eye. Otherwise, he's just speculating, and doing so with far less information than he'd currently have. <BR/><BR/>That world of blogging and reportage might be cleaner, more athletically-focused, and less prone to obsessions about A-Rod's love life, but it's much less interesting and very different than the one we have now.hoodawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06593191112352371661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11175154.post-74183318347025536552009-03-17T13:33:00.000-05:002009-03-17T13:33:00.000-05:00HD, I agree, but there will still be plenty of us ...HD, I agree, but there will still be plenty of us who can write about what we see during games for free.<BR/><BR/>Tommy, the niche for commentary on team news will be gone, but the niches for commentary on what we see during a game will remain. The difference between sports and politics/government is that the former is a public spectacle and the latter typically goes on behind closed doors. I need someone with sources and relationships to report on what the Georgia Legislature is doing; I don't need that to tell me that the Braves lost last night because Bobby left the starter in too long.Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08365733949431139562noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11175154.post-40752421643960091282009-03-17T12:20:00.000-05:002009-03-17T12:20:00.000-05:00"Blogs can cover a local team far more obsessively..."Blogs can cover a local team far more obsessively than newspapers ever could. Blogs can also be totally forthright in their assessments because they have no access to guard."<BR/><BR/>Therein lies the rub. Do you want news or opinion. Because the same individuals who give you opinion can't (or shouldn't) give you news. And if local team coverage is bound for obsolescence, the bandwagon of commentary hitched to that coverage is headed the same way. If the news isn't reported, how can you have an opinion about it?Tommyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15209673809885376664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11175154.post-17408319408483121232009-03-17T10:39:00.000-05:002009-03-17T10:39:00.000-05:00Great post, Michael. I get 75-80% of my sports ne...Great post, Michael. I get 75-80% of my sports news from blogs, but we sometimes forget that that blog-based news is essentially launched from local news reporting. If David Hale, Georgia blogger extraordinaire, loses his job with the newspaper, can he possibly support himself by attending Georgia pressers and posting all the details on his blog, begging for ad revenue? I doubt it, but someone has to start the conversation, and there's definitely a hunger for that information. <BR/><BR/>The big problem is that people expect the internet to be free, but they don't understand that the only reason internet news is free is that it's backed by a failing print media model. I expect the emergence of a fee-based internet media for niche news (local sports, for example) while an emergence, as you suggest, of a national free media that can always manage to attract enough ad revenue to support a print/internet free model. And, since the information sports bloggers will need to be current and interesting will likely lie behind a fee-for-service firewall, I see a culling of casual blogs down to those who care enough to pay for the raw reporting data.<BR/><BR/>Just another "there's no such thing as a free lunch" moment for Americans in the early 21st century.hoodawghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06593191112352371661noreply@blogger.com