Re:I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Pac...
by ghaff on Sunday May 02, 2021 @03:20PM
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>How can we fix that?
There are a great many people who would like to know the answer to that question but, for the most part, almost no one has. (Almost because there are a few global brands, especially those that provide financial reporting, that are doing OK but most aren't.
There are a lot of reasons, not least of all that the Internet broke the newspaper bundle that forced people advertising in the classifieds for roommates or the local car dealership advertising a sale to effectively subsidize the paper's prestige foreign bureaus and investigative journalism because where else were they going to advertise?
Plus, you don't need a subscription to SI any longer to keep up with whatever is going on in the world of sports.
There are a great many people who would like to know the answer to that question but, for the most part, almost no one has. (Almost because there are a few global brands, especially those that provide financial reporting, that are doing OK but most aren't.
There are a lot of reasons, not least of all that the Internet broke the newspaper bundle that forced people advertising in the classifieds for roommates or the local car dealership advertising a sale to effectively subsidize the paper's prestige foreign bureaus and investigative journalism because where else were they going to advertise?
Plus, you don't need a subscription to SI any longer to keep up with whatever is going on in the world of sports.