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And here's the downfall, in my opinion, of Sport Illustrated (as well as ESPN) and why they're failing. Instead of, you know, sports... they got all political
by sparrish 8y ago
And here's the downfall, in my opinion, of Sport Illustrated (as well as ESPN) and why they're failing. Instead of, you know, sports... they got all political and their readers who subscribed for sports weren't interested in getting political reporting from a sports publisher.
- paulcole 8y agoI’m an SI subscriber for 20 years and counting. 99+% of the articles I remember seeing have been about sports.
- magduf 8y agoLook at it from the other side: I like reading political reporting to a certain extent, but I don't give two shits about sports. So why would I subscribe to a sports magazine to read political articles? I think you have a point here: if I want to read about sports, I'm not going to read The Atlantic, I'm going to read some sports magazine. If I want to read about politics, well sports magazines and nude-women magazines aren't exactly what first comes to mind... but somehow, decades ago, this seemed to be the thinking for some odd reason. What I see here is things being corrected to the way they should have been all along. You want to look at pictures of naked women? Find a publication that specializes in that. You want to read about politics? Find a different publication that specializes in that. The two have no business being in the same magazine.