The other day a sports blog called Sports On Earth laid off much of its staff as part of a Gannett restructure. The link below makes some good points about the dumbing down of what works. I have seen it in radio and I sure as hell have seen it on the internet (which is why I love Clickhole mocking the whole “10 reasons” style of ‘net.)
Anyway I don’t want to be the grumpy old man telling you how stupid TV has gotten (surf around daytime TV sometime) but if you click through the below there are some good observations about how nobody clicks on the “smart” – that’s why I posted a picture of Matt Harvey with his shirt off over at Mets Police. I hate myself.
Again, I have no idea if a lack of near-visible nipples is what doomed Sports on Earth. And maybe I’m just admitting my own place in the Internet’s screwed up relationship with journalism — i.e., sacrificing smart takes for dumb sex, valuing hits over quality, reporting gossip and tabloid fodder instead of, you know things worth reporting. But the reality is that advertisers and sales run everything on the Internet, and not satisfying them has been the downfall of many an online venture.
via Why Sports On Earth Was Downsized? | Jerry Jones, Paulina Gretzky | SportsGrid.