Newsflash: Sports Reporting Sucks
I’ve long known that most sports coverage was insipid. Now I have proof. The State of the News Media Annual Report includes an analysis of how many views are presented in stories, as a metric of how deep (or superficial) the stories are. Sorry, sports section – you lose!
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All
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A1
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Metro
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Sports
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| Mix of Views |
76%
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82%
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75%
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55%
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| Mostly One View |
10
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9
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9
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14
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| All One View |
15
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9
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15
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31
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Totals may not equal 100 because of rounding. |
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[...] friend Josh writes about the apparent failure of the average newspaper sports section to have a variety of [...]
Mike Powell Fanclub » All the views that are fit to print (in section c)
January 30, 2007