Are you a "Real" Kings fan...?

Because they’re becoming an extremely lost medium. If you saw anything of what Buzz Bissinger said on Bob Costas’ segment on blogs, and if you saw how ably Will Carroll handled himself, well if I might say so, then you saw a true, and a problematic, criticism of newspapers. People don’t just run to read papers did like I did when I first became a Kings fan. By the time I was 21 I rarely bought the Bee. I just read articles online, and that was that.

Bissingers point that nobody remembers great writers covering sports, like quite a few did in Bissinger’s youth, were no longer noticed in papers anymore. The best known sportswriters today all appear on television, and maybe with the lone exception of Kornheiser’s and Wilbon’s act on PTI, it’s gotten very tiresome. Stephen A Smith especially. Excellent sports writer, and despicably awful talking head. Skip Bayless is exactly in the same boat. What’s my point? The point is that the writing no longer creates an imagination in the reader’s head about what could have been, or should have been or what could be. It’s all fairly typical paragraph set form, with a few anecdotes that the writer favors. There’s nothing to remember any writer by, and that’s just the lay of the land. It’s too bad because newspapers have brought far more to the political, sporting, and entertainment landscape of Americans than any other media medium. That’s the true shame. That profit destroyed the business, and nothing else.