Sports fans can watch and listen to many new shows and podcasts about sports today. Many young people also use social media to talk about live sports games. But newspapers and magazines are not writing about sports as much they used to. For example, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times have stopped covering sports.
Keith O’Brien is a writer who is worried about this. He thinks it is a problem that we are losing serious sports reporting. In an interview, Kai Ryssdal asked him about this. They talked about how ESPN, a big sports news company, might let the NFL, a sports league, become part of the company. This could cause problems because it could affect how they report on the NFL.
Ryssdal also asked O’Brien about what could happen in the future. O’Brien said he is scared that we might not have serious sports reporting someday. He spoke about an example where students, not professional journalists, discovered a big story about a university football coach. O’Brien worries about the future of sports reporting.
Vocabulary List:
- Coverage (noun): The reporting and analysis of news or events.
- Podcasts (noun): A digital audio file made available on the internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device.
- Social media (noun): Websites and applications that enable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.
- Serious (adjective): Demanding or characterized by careful consideration or application.
- Journalists (noun): A person who writes for newspapers or magazines or prepares news to be broadcast on radio or television.
- Discover (verb): Find something or someone unexpectedly or in the course of a search.
