Fire The Sportswriters? Not If The Teams Have Anything To Say About It

Duplicative coverage is one of those things some journalism advocates say has got to go. Why would you expect every newspaper in the country to support a film critic, a TV critic, and sportswriters, the argument goes, when they’re the same films and the same TV and you can see the same games anywhere? Get that stuff on the Internet or from one centralized source and focus resources on the stuff that can’t be covered remotely.

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