This is why “national” reporters don’t get it

[Bobby Burton]

There are many adjectives I would use to describe the psyche of Texas fans after yesterday’s comeback victory. Elated? Excited? Thrilled?

“Miserable” is not one of them.

I’m guessing he had most of this written before the Texas comeback and just wanted to crap on Texas regardless.

https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/misery-index-steve-sarkisians-mess-in-texas-isnt-the-longhorns-only-problem-040139999.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly90LmNvLw&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAALYY2yi36daXMVb9VBxIjJ7PIjE_92Tpt21TXon5XndIvkEvQIqphUdCw3DUMi7Bj3QjaLtUkGvLeTeu5wDjHRxceOSdhisfQQxgyRIWW1axa5RrQ3vH50uemzxcXKiwfApWdI7eBtpqupKxHVAzTVcWHyL2VaM6nJU095rjllQs

[Oldest Horn]

Most likely. But every fan base has its bed wetters. Some may even be disappointed we did come back. 

[Bobby Burton]

2 minutes ago, Oldest Horn said:

Most likely. But every fan base has its bed wetters. Some may even be disappointed we did come back. 

He was talking about Texas fans being miserable. He’s out of touch.

If any Texas fans were miserable last night, I didn’t hear from a single one of them and we had 4K people on the Post-Game show. 

[Nuufaola]

This is the guy who wanted to cancel football bc of covid

 

[CGG]

They aren’t there to tell the story, they are there to generate interest in their stories.

[Roy Hinojosa]

We don't need to be giving clicks and engagement to rag trash. We're just giving them SEO, and I would rather we not do that.

[Jordan91]

44 minutes ago, Bobby Burton said:

He was talking about Texas fans being miserable. He’s out of touch.

If any Texas fans were miserable last night, I didn’t hear from a single one of them and we had 4K people on the Post-Game show. 

I had to call my parents to make sure they were still alive. That fourth quarter had them screaming so loud their cat jumped in the air and ran into the bedroom. 

[Jeff Howe]

In some ways, I hate what the industry I’ve chosen as a means to provide for my family has become since I started. This is article is a prime example of why.

I’d like to think you can write compelling, thought-provoking content without farming for clicks. Maybe my optimism is the problem and I’m the one who is out of touch?

Either way, there’s a lot of stuff in Dan Wolken’s piece that reinforces how click-driven the industry has become, quality of the content be damned. Whatever valid points he made are buried beneath cheap shots that are either sensationalized or patently false.

[taxsaver]

OTF  just doesn't understand the media like regular folks do.  You can't see the trees because the forest is in your way.  You guys are great, but you are operating with clowns and outright criminals and, yes, they will at least ATTEMPT to fool you if you let your guard down.  These clowns (like Wolken)  are  not your friends.

But WE know that BS like this passes for "journalism" amongst other "journalists." For the most part, journalism is dead.   Yes, Bobby and his crew do a great job, but us regular folks reading these articles are used to reading this BS on a regular basis every day.  

It's what we have become accustomed to over the years, and it gets worse day by day.

I wish I was wrong.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by taxsaver

[HelloThere]

Woken is one of the worst in the industry and an automatic mute for me. You can’t get much worse than him and it has been that way for years. 

[General Grant]

Inch deep mile wide usually.  And I don’t trust their sourcing or motives.  I trust Bobby to tell it like it is.  

[cdibbs]

2 hours ago, Bobby Burton said:

He was talking about Texas fans being miserable. He’s out of touch.

If any Texas fans were miserable last night, I didn’t hear from a single one of them and we had 4K people on the Post-Game show. 

Never seen any fans miserable after an exciting game like that. If any fans were miserable after a win, it would've been last week vs Kentucky!

[taxsaver]

6 minutes ago, General Grant said:

Inch deep mile wide usually.  And I don’t trust their sourcing or motives.  I trust Bobby to tell it like it is.  

yes, because Bobby and crew are actual journalists.  But real people like us know that Bobby is the exception rather than the rule.  Once upon a time journalism was well-respected.  

Now they're the butt of jokes.  "JOURNALISM" is now an epithet, certainly not any kind of complement worthy of respect.  It's nice that there a FEW like Bobby still out there, though.

HOOKEM
 

Edited 1 hour ago by taxsaver

[TravelingHorn]

One of the big issues is the amount of quality reporting that is behind paywalls.  Many of us can afford one or two subscriptions, but nowhere near enough to get behind the paywalls in multiple areas, e.g. financial news, political new, local news, favorite college team, favorite pro team, etc.  However, we still want whatever information we can get, so we end up feeding the problem by clicking on any article that promises some new facts or a different take.  It was much better when the entire industry was driven by ad sales.  When you visit a site with a paywall and see topics you can't read and can't afford, you begin relying on these less scrupulous sites.

To be clear, I am not knocking anyone who chooses the paywall method.  Everyone has the right to monetize the best way they can.  I just think it exacerbates the problem.

 

Edited 52 minutes ago by TravelingHorn