One of those things that probably is more interesting to me than others, so it won't last long on page one of RSS.
https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2017/06/06/seth-davis-sports-illustrated-farewell-thank-you
Like Davis, I didn't read SI as a youngster and as a high school and college so much as absorb the magazine every Friday upon its arrival. Cover to cover, page by page, each and every word. Couldn't get enough of it. What it said about sports was gospel to me. And the quality of the writing was beyond compare and beyond reproach.
When I started reading this column, I had not heard that Davis was leaving SI. I assumed that Davis was going to close his farewell column with why he was choosing to leave his dream job, and his reason was going to disappoint me, in part because his dream job was my dream job. And I figured he was leaving SI for some great new financial opportunity in a more "current" media entity. Well surprise, surprise.
SI is nowhere near the magazine (and yes, I still get the actual magazine - uninterrupted subscription owner for about 55 years) it used to be. I find typos and even grammatical errors from time to time; that never used to happen in a slower era where an entire department existed to prevent those flaws from ever seeing the light of day.
Davis says that "sports journalism" is alive and well. OK, but it doesn't look like it used to look, and it is not necessarily better. It has been impacted by speed, by the temporary nature of first the internet and then by social media, and by television. The need for speed rather than accurate and to be noticed rather than appreciated has changed sports journalism. Go back and read the legendary Dan Jenkins' report on the Game of the Century and then read the SI article on the Clemson win over Bama in the national championship. Like two different languages. Davis getting laid off is a symptom or consequence of an evolutionary change in how we receive news. Call me old fashioned or just old, but I don't read anything today that compares to what SI used to give me every Friday afternoon, without fail.
https://www.si.com/college-basketball/2017/06/06/seth-davis-sports-illustrated-farewell-thank-you
Like Davis, I didn't read SI as a youngster and as a high school and college so much as absorb the magazine every Friday upon its arrival. Cover to cover, page by page, each and every word. Couldn't get enough of it. What it said about sports was gospel to me. And the quality of the writing was beyond compare and beyond reproach.
When I started reading this column, I had not heard that Davis was leaving SI. I assumed that Davis was going to close his farewell column with why he was choosing to leave his dream job, and his reason was going to disappoint me, in part because his dream job was my dream job. And I figured he was leaving SI for some great new financial opportunity in a more "current" media entity. Well surprise, surprise.
SI is nowhere near the magazine (and yes, I still get the actual magazine - uninterrupted subscription owner for about 55 years) it used to be. I find typos and even grammatical errors from time to time; that never used to happen in a slower era where an entire department existed to prevent those flaws from ever seeing the light of day.
Davis says that "sports journalism" is alive and well. OK, but it doesn't look like it used to look, and it is not necessarily better. It has been impacted by speed, by the temporary nature of first the internet and then by social media, and by television. The need for speed rather than accurate and to be noticed rather than appreciated has changed sports journalism. Go back and read the legendary Dan Jenkins' report on the Game of the Century and then read the SI article on the Clemson win over Bama in the national championship. Like two different languages. Davis getting laid off is a symptom or consequence of an evolutionary change in how we receive news. Call me old fashioned or just old, but I don't read anything today that compares to what SI used to give me every Friday afternoon, without fail.
