Senior Year Box Set

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I’ve been covering area high school sports for the local paper for the past twenty-six years. But at this point, I seriously considered retiring. The way that sports is reported has changed drastically in the last ten to twenty years. Newspapers were quickly becoming obsolete. The Internet and video were what people wanted.

I personally believed that the Internet will someday be the death of real journalism. It used to be that there was a news cycle. TV reporters would work to have the story by their evening broadcast while the print media had until they went to press. The nightly TV news gave us images and the broad strokes while we would wake up in the morning to find our newspaper with the details.

Today, it was a race to get it on the Internet first. I bet that if you ask anyone under the age of thirty, they’ll tell you that they get their news on their phone or tablet. I know because I have grandkids, and they are glued to their phones.

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