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lawgator1

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At $40 a year, I wonder how much money they are generating with Insider versus alienating people like me who think they ought to be a little bit more careful about charging people to see their "take" on things. Advertising is how you make your $ in the journalism game.

I can afford the $40, that's not it. I just fiund it gimmicky to charge for it and it is annoying as heck (not to mention their survey pop-up that they have managed to get by my pop-up filter).
 
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i canceled mine a while ago...not really anything in there that i thought was so over whelmingly informative.
 
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kidbourbon said:
the problem is that it seems like they are slowly migrating more and more stuff over to insider. .
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yeah, i noticed that to. which is why i only go to espn.com about 1 time a week....there's nothing in there that just makes me want to fork over the $$$.
 
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doozer said:
doesn't it also come with ESPN The Mag?
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Maybe so but I am having a real hard timed remembering anyone teeling me anything they read in there that was not already well known by the time it was published in that magazine.

I probably should not have been so quick to lump ESPN in with "journalism." Sports reporting is its own bizarre world of sports fans becoming writers for their own teams. Only newspapers, like the NYT, and the occassional jaded wrtier ever break any "news" when it comes to sports reporting.

Otherwise, and except for the obvious, such as scores and standings, sports reporting is almost all commentary by fans of the game that can write.

Very infrequently does the local sports writer for your hometown newspaper do any digging or reveal any "news." For one thing, if they get the reputation as looking too closely at a program, they quickly find themselves on the outside looking in.
 
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I've always found that if it was something I'd be interested in, someone here tells us about it. Yet another cost saving benefit of citizenship here at The Nation...
 
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kidbourbon said:
the problem is that it seems like they are slowly migrating more and more stuff over to insider. .
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Yeah, its pretty obvious.

I remember being kind of ticked last year. The bracketology section used to be such that you could put the cursor on a team and read why he put them where he did. Starting last year, if you did that, you could only see it if you were an "insider."
 
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lawgator1 said:
Maybe so but I am having a real hard timed remembering anyone teeling me anything they read in there that was not already well known by the time it was published in that magazine.

I probably should not have been so quick to lump ESPN in with "journalism." Sports reporting is its own bizarre world of sports fans becoming writers for their own teams. Only newspapers, like the NYT, and the occassional jaded wrtier ever break any "news" when it comes to sports reporting.

Otherwise, and except for the obvious, such as scores and standings, sports reporting is almost all commentary by fans of the game that can write.

Very infrequently does the local sports writer for your hometown newspaper do any digging or reveal any "news." For one thing, if they get the reputation as looking too closely at a program, they quickly find themselves on the outside looking in.
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plus a lot of the stuff you find on there now is all editorial type writing. no real "info", just banter. people love that kind of stuff, good or bad.

but to your point, you won't find anything in there about your team that you probably didn't already know or found an alternative outlet for the same "opinions" of the matter at hand.
 
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I am an insider and hardly ever use it, I guess I thought I would have more time on my hands to read up on stuff, so yes you could say it was a waste of my money.
 
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The only time of the year Insider is worth it's price is for March Madness brackets. Info info info info.
 
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