What's Lost
... when newspaper reporters on the racing beat are laid off or retired, then replaced by general sports writers, who might be fine journalists but have little understanding of the sport or the industry and its ongoing stories, is exemplified in this dull bit of LA Times reporting on SoCal synthetic surface tracks, which rehashes every point every racing fan or even vaguely interested reader has already come across elsewhere, padded out by press release quality quotes.
Posted by JC, Sep 4, 2008 01:00 PM
Comments
Posted by Nellie, Sep 4, 2008 02:05 PM
Sorry to report, yes, yes, he did.
Posted by Jessica, Sep 4, 2008 02:15 PM
The Philly Inquirer's horse racing writer was given notice of his layoff last week.
Posted by TheyRoff, Sep 7, 2008 10:10 AM
Donnelly or Jensen? Or both? Bad news ...
Posted by Jessica, Sep 7, 2008 08:58 PM
My phone doesn't render commas properly, so I may be wrong about this, but ...
Please tell me that writer did NOT refer to a horse's "bottom" ...