It comes in all shapes and sizes but sports information on the internet knows no boundaries…home grown websites, twitter, wildly commercial pop up laden pages likes ESPN.com and Sports.yahoo.com, even Facebook put sports news forward all day….But one thing they don’t do is differentiate between journalism and entertainment…that’s left up to you…<\/p>\n
I’m not sure readers(viewers) care much about that difference but it’s worth examining,especially in an academic setting…ponder the article contributed by Caitlin Donohue this week…Journalism or Fanism<\/a>….Interesting that the issue is even being considered, don’t you think?…<\/p>\n So, not only are readers thinking about the integrity of the author but, thankfully, the people who are opining are taking it into consideration….Five years ago, the question was “what’s this twitter thing”….and there were naysayers who said, “don’t worry, it’ll never last”….so much for that argument…It’s now, it’s live….and it’s sparked discourse…<\/p>\n Sports reporters walk a fine line every day, being asked to analyze events of the day for the countless opinion shows both locally and nationally…respected reporters like Michael Smith, Bob Ryan \u00a0and Jackie MacMullan appear on\u00a0Around the Horn<\/a> as much to entertain as inform…How many viewers actually read Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornhesier before they became stars on PTI<\/a>?…But writers, comedians, actors, students even have been able to translate their opinions and their material to the internet and gain wide audiences because they have know how to cross that line every now and then….<\/p>\n In the end it comes down to credibility, some might even add personality…But sports reporting can be both journalism and entertainment…let the buyer beware!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It comes in all shapes and sizes but sports information on the internet knows no boundaries…home grown websites, twitter, wildly commercial pop up laden pages likes ESPN.com and Sports.yahoo.com, even Facebook put sports news forward all day….But one thing they don’t do is differentiate between journalism and entertainment…that’s left up to you… I’m not sure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":901,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/fshorr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}