Double Play: The New Era of Sports Reporting

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Chris Haft
The transition from newspapers to the internet, at least for me, and I'm sure many of my colleagues can say the same thing, w- was welcome, really, because uhm.. with the internet, enabled us to report things as they happened and get the news out much more quickly, and just — and therefore be more effective. If you stand still, you're falling behind. All media are going to continue to evolve. Twitter may become something, you know, some s- sorta hyper-

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Twitter where we'll — w- we'll no longer write stories, we'll just tweet them now. You know, game, inning by inning, pitch by pitch maybe even. Already, you can follow ga —baseball games pitch by pitch on the internet, so really, what's — th- this may sound a little bit cynical and uh.. biting my own hand, but what's the use of what we do? The classic game story, which is what I love writing, I think uhm.. is already an endangered species and I think there'll always be a

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need for people to put words together coherently, but they just may become — they just may get served in smaller and smaller bites. It's so immediate now. Uhm.. I'll hear from — we'll all hear from- from readers/fans during the game. You've got direct tweeting if, you know, which- which has changed uh.. the landscape somewhat. And of course, thre's emails uh.. I've —there's some fans I'll hear from, you

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know, two or three times in the middle of a game and uhm.. you know, it's kind of uhm.. it does enliven things a little bit, keeps you — helps keep you on your toes and uh.. almost helps you pay attention a little bit more, 'cause they're — maybe they're seeing the game a little bit differently from you. Just as you've got all kinds of people, you've got all kinds of players. Some player, you know, embrace the uh.. the increased uh.. amount of media, and s — and so they f — they've adjusted too, just like players always will, but tweeting themselves, having their own

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blogs. And once upon a time, maybe it was, you know, they'd answer their fan mail. Now this is a way for them to answer their fan mail, in a sense. They can do it just like that.

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