(City of Houston) Chronicle settles for mediocre "sportswriters"..

Since the Post left it's all been down hill from there. No competition.

 

Who cares about print newspaper anyway?

Do yall actually subscribe and read that in today's age?

 

Print news organizations usually also have their Internet counterparts. You would think the quality of writing and reporting on those sites would be a bit better than what we've seen from some writers. In the past, we've actually gotten a lot of information from various Chronicle articles.

 

wow, a bit harsh... They're understaffed and have been for some time. A metro paper needs many more reporters on staff than they currently have.

Why don't you cover all the sports as well as they do? Why? Because you could never do what they do.

 

The Chronicle wants page hits. Queen got them page hits. Honestly, Bozo has been doing the same thing (trolling) for a couple of years now, and queen is just playing catch up, and let's be honest. Sports reporting has never been that great to begin with. Either locally or nationally.

 

I could never do what a surgeon could do, either, but I expect the surgeon to perform his duties well.

 

At this point, the chronicle, and the city, would be best served if they shut down their sport's department entirely, and funneled those resources into other parts of the paper.

 

Oh snap!

 

Negative, sir. Have you seen the posts on this site? Hate Solomon for being an idiot, but don't make the same dumb statements.

Like it or not, he has his job because he's actually a pretty good writer. Columnist? That may be a different story.

 

There is a claim that Solomon leaving the Chronicle, is that true, can you post the link?

 

*rubs chin*

Sounds more like an email between buddies. You know, an in-joke that you would laugh at if you knew Jerome.

For public consumption, the grammar and punctuation kills the humor.

Repped for effort, though.

 

Hehe you said "duties".

 

Newspapers are losing money. The Chronicle is made up of mostly bloggers now.

 

I disagree... all newspapers are suffering. As someone who writes for a living in the industry, I can vouch for that.

My professional opinion of the guy is that, yes his opinion is detestable sometimes, but his technique and style is pretty good. He’s not a bad reporter when he’s not focusing on negative items. In fact, it is good he's there to balance out Justice's over-the-top, ass kissing.

Also, from a journalistic stand point, the writers on Clutchfans fail to impress me. They don’t know the proper formats, styles, professional niche techniques that Solomon, a professional journalist, knows how to pull off. They also don’t go out and get information for themselves. They pull it from people like Solomon. So until you start insulting someone, why don’t you walk a mile in their shoes. Go out and get some fresh information on the Rockets yourself, without pulling it from fanzone or ESPN insider … or my fav, real GM. Until clutchfans start consistently doing their own reporting, a rare thing on this Web site, don't even bring that argument to the table.

 

What information do the likes of Solomon and Blineberry have that we don't? I don't recall any breaking news from Chronicle that we haven't already heard from other sources/leaks.

Plus, isn't it unfair to ask us ordinary fans to go get insider information? Being sports reporters, they must more or less have some connections inside the organization. And they have the luxury to sit there all day watching sports because it's their job, a luxury most of us fans don't have. But that doesn't mean we can tell the difference between a good sports writer and a bad one. Like Dr of Dunk said:

 

Sorry. Typo. "But that doesn't mean we can't tell..."

 

I know that his tone can be incredibly frustrating, and I don't like the tone that he often takes either, but let's see if he's wrong before anyone accuses him of being stupid, biased, accurate, etc..