Blog for week 3

             The first article by Hancherick basically states the obvious in saying that times have changed as has the way we get our news. The example of the Randy Moss trade is used in his article where a tweet was released rumoring the mid-season trade prior to any other news station, including ESPN.

 Personally, I feel as though Twitter is awesome. No, I am not a journalist major I am BTMM and perhaps that is why I feel this way. Why should I need to sit down and read an entire article or listen to a whole news report to get the information that I seek. When I am on my radio show and I want to quick check Twitter for breaking news instead of having to read a full article I get what I need to know what is going on in sports nation.  If I then feel the need, I can click on a link to read the article that the Tweet is gathering its information from but if I do not have the time to do this, I already get the main points of the story. I liked the wording that Hancherick used when he referred as today’s news as “rapid-fire news.” It’s a clever way to put it. News today needs to be quickly available since people are always on the go. This applied to sports news and all news.

As far as the section in Salwen’s article that addresses females in the sports industry I one hundred percent agree. Women are underrepresented in professional sports and in sports professions such as journalism and broadcasting. I myself, being an aspiring sports broadcaster realize this every day when I get the strange looks from men when I tell them my major. However, I do feel that women are getting themselves in these positions more now than ever and that doors are opening as men start to see that we do, in fact, know what we are talking about just as much as the guys.