| | Journalism's arbitrary notion that experience makes a good reporter has been exposed, blown wide open thanks to the cold winds sweeping down from the Italian alps.
Sportswriters, desperate and old, are trying to find compelling angles in these Olympic games. And they complain when people like Lindsey Jacobellis and Bode Miller fail to win. I bet that deep down, they did want to win, but they're railing against the media for all the exposure, trying to brush it off.
The media want quotes punctuated with weeps and sobs. The kids just want to have fun. They're still clutching to the memories when an Olympic medal could unite a country; that doesn't happen any more. It's too regional, too fractured. Is it bad or good? It doesn't matter; it's gone. If you want that, move to another country, a country that needs its athletes to add to national pride.
Our sense of nationalism is kaput, in sports at least. Why do we need a Miracle on Ice when we can have a Maraudering in Iraq? We don't need gold medals anymore.
And I understand this. I've seen it happen (and don't get me wrong; I appreciate and enjoy the Olympics and miss watching them, but I know they've changed). The old guard media hasn't. For better or for worse, America has moved on. It's time for those journalists to do the same. |
| | Posted 2/18/2006 12:41 PM - 1 View - 2 eProps - 1 Comment
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