Posted
10:06 AM
by Gene
THE FUTURE OF NEWS: The
StinkyInky's breathless 1,140-WORD dispatch on
A. I., with all the electricity normally surrounding Mid-East negotiations, is Exhibit A in why the press is rejiggering its business around profit centers. Sports is $, and the more verbose and hyperbolistic and speculative and angst-ridden the sports page is, the more $. We suspect few who do not follow the megalomania that is professional basketball will care one way or another where A. I. goes. We do not care where A. I. goes. But with papers like the
StinkyInky relying more on wire-service copy and their sports profit centers, increasingly we do care where the
StinkyInky goes, and we hope it's to the Devil.