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I hate the way that news is reported these days. Newspapers use to be a great thing but now its all social media and the internet taking over and it has affected how SC is run. Its crap.

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I think this has a LOT to do with everything here...social media, especially something like Twitter, allows not just news, but everything, to be reported literally instantaneously. The very second something happens, people are tweeting about it or posting it on their FB, Instagram, etc. And that crosses into sports as well...people are constantly getting Twitter updates to their phones every time something happens in a game, or a final score, etc. So by the time SportsCenter comes on in the evenings, none of it is news anymore.

The speed at which we ingest information (and news) is so blisteringly fast these days that any news-reporting outlet, whether it be newspapers, TV shows, or even websites, is almost always far behind the news. So by the time it's time to report something, people already know about it. It's one reason 24-hour "news" channels exist. And a byproduct of that is that they will always strive to report "breaking news," even if they have to make it up or create it on the spot. ESPN has the Bottom Line, FOX and CNN have constant streaming news "breaking" on the bottoms of their respective screens. Not everything is important, but nobody wants to watch unimportant things, so channels have to sensationalize everything to garner viewers.

And it's ruining news television (including sports news).