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Click bait sports journalism
Posted on: December 10, 2017 at 11:40:54 CT
Knucklehead MU
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The current sports journalism career strategy is to be edgy and over hype/react to everything.
It is basically a product of the internet. First, it lowered barriers of entrance to sports reporting. Any fool can create a "sports blog". As a result, you have too many people trying to make money off of sports "reporting" many of whom have no actual qualifications to be sports reporters or columnists. They don't have inside connections, they don't have the technical ability to evaluate players or coaching strategies, so they focus on personality driven crap.
Second, the internet has placed newspapers under extreme financial pressure. It also allows the business managers to track how many people click on a story. So a key metric for reporters and editors becomes number of clicks. This creates a big incentive to write click bait headlines and stories.
In additions, it is possible that the internet and cell phones have negatively impacted people's ability to engage in thoughtful analysis. As evidenced by the decline in reading long form analysis, such as books. But I claim no expertise in that area. I have read that excessive use of electronic devices changes the brain chemistry of young children. Apparently, over stimulation results in the discharge of dopamine which creates additive behavior. (Same chemical is the basis for many drug addictions).
So you get a career strategy of appealing to the emotions of impulsive people.
Such is life. Things change.
Edited by Knucklehead at 11:46:06 on 12/10/17
It is basically a product of the internet. First, it lowered barriers of entrance to sports reporting. Any fool can create a "sports blog". As a result, you have too many people trying to make money off of sports "reporting" many of whom have no actual qualifications to be sports reporters or columnists. They don't have inside connections, they don't have the technical ability to evaluate players or coaching strategies, so they focus on personality driven crap.
Second, the internet has placed newspapers under extreme financial pressure. It also allows the business managers to track how many people click on a story. So a key metric for reporters and editors becomes number of clicks. This creates a big incentive to write click bait headlines and stories.
In additions, it is possible that the internet and cell phones have negatively impacted people's ability to engage in thoughtful analysis. As evidenced by the decline in reading long form analysis, such as books. But I claim no expertise in that area. I have read that excessive use of electronic devices changes the brain chemistry of young children. Apparently, over stimulation results in the discharge of dopamine which creates additive behavior. (Same chemical is the basis for many drug addictions).
So you get a career strategy of appealing to the emotions of impulsive people.
Such is life. Things change.
Edited by Knucklehead at 11:46:06 on 12/10/17
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