We are still minor league

The thing I noticed this year at training camp is that when someone from the Titans is over at that little curtain giving an interview, there is usually a gaggle of writers around him with recorders. They are all getting the same quote! Now you can go to the Titans' website and hear the entire article for yourself. It's got to be a tough gig to be a beat writer in the internet age.

I mean, only a few years ago beat writers knew stuff that no fan knew until it was printed in the daily paper. Now, as exhibited here with training camp, stuff that is printed in the daily paper has already been recanted the night before on this site.

I agree, beat writers should focus more on specific player stories. I mean, they still should do daily recaps because a lot of the older generation still enjoy reading the newspaper.

 

I think there is a certain snobbery about it all. Since Bruce started as an Oiler, the Titans "inherited" him, and he is not considered a true player from the modern franchise.

 

Gotcha... yea I heard local and thought staff writer for local paper... Tennessean definitely has a problem. Obviously they have to give us something we can't get elsewhere, which used to be just the who/what/where/when/how. But now we can get that same report, and get it faster on sites like this.

I think their only option is to give a more in-depth analysis of the games and players, which is why I made the comment about getting someone like Sirmon to write for the paper. I was kind of half joking, but I just realized that titansonline.com has both Sirmon and Dyson writing weekly articles like that - not to mention Mike Keith's blog. That's the type of article that the local papers need to survive, and it appears the Tennessean might be too late to the game there.