News is becoming progressively less profitable every year, and so outlets need to cut corners left and right to stay afloat. A new journalist is cheap and their value is easy to measure; just watch their metrics. An Editor is expensive and it isn't immediately clear how much they help the company's bottom line. So downsize on editors and hire a young, inexperienced writer. Nobody is immune to this, every outlet will degrade into tabloids and clickbait if they don't make a massively conscious effort to stay out of that hole.
“The first time in years that the under armor logo won’t appear on the field for years.”
The absolute state of journalism
It's sad. Why don't they just do a quick proof read?
News is becoming progressively less profitable every year, and so outlets need to cut corners left and right to stay afloat. A new journalist is cheap and their value is easy to measure; just watch their metrics. An Editor is expensive and it isn't immediately clear how much they help the company's bottom line. So downsize on editors and hire a young, inexperienced writer. Nobody is immune to this, every outlet will degrade into tabloids and clickbait if they don't make a massively conscious effort to stay out of that hole.
A computer probably wrote this article.