Charlotte Observer is losing both of its Carolina Panthers beat writers

[KaseKlosed]

8 hours ago, WarPanthers89 said:

It’s funny how people look past that and blame Jourdan. Cam did not look good coming out of that situation 

Jourdan was cynical towards Cam before the comment was made. She also had several racist tweets that resurfaced. Don't see how people can not understand how that may effect other human beings. 

[WarPanthers89]

5 minutes ago, KaseKlosed said:

Jourdan was cynical towards Cam before the comment was made. She also had several racist tweets that resurfaced. Don't see how people can not understand how that may effect other human beings. 

He is the leader of the franchise. He said he was wrong, Rivera said he was wrong, sponsors said he was wrong, it gained national attention.....because he was wrong. Do you really think Cam stalked her twitter from years prior and made his comment because of her old tweet? I’m a huge Cam fan, don’t get me wrong but everyone makes mistakes...and he made a mistake during that interview.

 

[KaseKlosed]

8 minutes ago, WarPanthers89 said:

He is the leader of the franchise. He said he was wrong, Rivera said he was wrong, sponsors said he was wrong, it gained national attention.....because he was wrong. Do you really think Cam stalked her twitter from years prior and made his comment because of her old tweet? I’m a huge Cam fan, don’t get me wrong but everyone makes mistakes...and he made a mistake during that interview.

 

lol I think you are taking this down the wrong path. I said she was cynical towards Cam BEFORE cam made those comments.  

[Carl Spackler]

6 hours ago, CPcavedweller said:

There seems to be a de-evolution to our society right now, in general. Despite having lifetimes worth of knowledge 0.5 seconds away at any given time, people still fall into the falsehoods and drivel that is put out by news media firms of all types. With increased competition comes the need to create a niche, or fall into an existing niche, and to have the most compelling storyline within that niche; whether it's true or not doesn't matter. A correction can always be issued at a later date. 

Accuracy is no longer a requirement. 

[Carl Spackler]

3 hours ago, Chaos said:

Remember Ron Green? 

The Observer was at its best when it had guys like Green, Poole, Tom Sorensen, Stan Olson and Yasinskas and Charles Chandler on the Panther beat. 

[ellis]

Steve Czaban is my favorite Charlotte sports media Alum. 

 

 

[Ivan The Awesome]

Gonna miss Jourdan. :(

[Cookie Lyon]

9 hours ago, MechaZain said:

This sucks. Marcel was quickly becoming my favorite of all of them.

Agreed. I really enjoyed his work. Best of luck to him at his new job.

[jtm]

Twitter has killed print media because most don't want to read long articles and just want someone to summarize.  

[PantherGuy]

On 6/6/2019 at 9:58 AM, zacka77ack said:

I bought a year subscription to the Athletic at some stupidly discounted price. Its refreshing to pull out my iPad and feel like I'm reading a newspaper. I don't have to be assaulted by the opinions of Stephen A Smith and don't have to worry that I am reading something written by someone in the basement pretending to be a beat writer. It is worth the handful of dollars a month I pay. The Athletic's Hurricanes reporter is a great read. Joe Person's stuff has increased in value as it seems he is not feeling the pressure from the Observer to start media room fires...

I love my Athletic subscription. $5 a month to read substantive stories and articles is not that bad. I know bashing Joe is a sport here, but he's doing just fine with the Athletic. IMO the issue is more with the Observer's sports editors telling their staff to start fires in a desperation to get reads. 

[!stUp]

21 hours ago, Carl Spackler said:

The Observer was at its best when it had guys like Green, Poole, Tom Sorensen, Stan Olson and Yasinskas and Charles Chandler on the Panther beat. 

But that was before McClatchey took over.

[CRA]

On 6/6/2019 at 9:42 AM, 45catfan said:

The problem with news now is anyone with a inkling of the current political environment knows you have to take everything reported with a grain of salt.  How accurate is it due to the biases of the reporter?  That's what really hurt ESPN is when they started down the slippery slope of opinion-based news and then just stepped in a pile of dung when they went full-bore political.  ESPNs CEO even recently admitted it was a mistake.  People want the news, factual and unbiased.  They already have their political beliefs and don't want a sports reporter, of all people, trying to tell them how right the ills of world.

I would also add that I think the biggest issue in coverage of things is that very very few things deserve or need the excess coverage of today's world. 

24 hr cable news networks might serve a purpose in an emergency.  That's about it.  So because they don't have enough legit news to fill the space? Well, it turns into a variation of forced entertainment.   

I think the same can be said w/ sports coverage.  Especially in this weird social media world where everyone literally is on and engaged 24/7    So you just don't hear from your favorite sports reporter once a week in a column they fined tuned all week.  You basically can hear from them every day online in some form.   

Good news and reporting has simply always taken.....time.   The feed everyone now aspect of things just makes a lot of things bad.  So you get less facts.  Less reporting.  More opinion.  More just noise for the sake of putting something out. 

 

[rayzor]

On 6/6/2019 at 5:39 PM, Carl Spackler said:

Accuracy is no longer a requirement. 

We don't have time to be accurate. You can't take the time for it if you're going to have "Breaking" news.

Twitter and social media by and large have killed good and well thought out communication.

[t96]

1 hour ago, Stoney said:

Any confirmation of this?  Nothing on her twitter page indicates anythign other than business as usual as an Observer reporter.

https://www.sportschannel8.com/media-musings-after-initial-resistance-the-athletics-gluck-stuck-with-nascar/

 

Rodrigue leaving Charlotte Observer

Jourdan Rodrigue, who replaced Jonathan Jones (now a national NFL writer for Sports Illustrated) on the Carolina Panthers beat in October 2016, is leaving The Charlotte Observer. It was announced internally last week, according to source. The job opening was posted Monday.