Helping Kill Journalism 140 characters at a time

               I remember I used to want to be a journalist, now it appears they want to be me.I’m chilling at the crib yesterday, watching some Sportscenter, post-Lakers championship and I get hit with the final straw. They announce after the break, they have Shaq’s thoughts on Kobe getting a ring. Semi-interesting I thought, however; something told me not to expect “The Big Washed Up” in the studio.  Of course not, that’s so yesterday. Why would they actually interview somebody? They didn’t even have the decency to snatch his quote from somebody else’s interview. By the year 2011, interviews will cease to exist, “journalist” will just snatch quotes from Twitter.

               I understand it’s a recession and all, but how much does it cost them to get somebody on for an interview? Nothing and or next to it? So the true culprit has to be laziness. What are  you guys even paid for? Shit, I could surf twitter and snatch opinions all day. This isn’t the first time ESPN has done this, I’ve seen them do it all week. I go on-line and check the hip hop sites, and they’re snatching comments from corny rappers about their opinoins on Jay Z’s “Death of Autotune” track. Look, I understand blog sites doing it, bloggers ARE NOT JOURNALIST! So while some of them may get the chance to do interviews, most don’t. Most bloggers don’t have the pay, credentials, respect. or credibility  ”journalist” do, so if they decided to throw up some twitter comment and ACT like it’s news, it’s whatever.  However, if I go to ESPN and see a news article filled with Twitter comments, and see a by line that reads “J.A. Adande” or a name of another established journalist, I’m calling up Lebron’s management and asking for an intervivew. Shit, if they’re gonna be all in my territory, I should start trying to invade theirs.