New Starkville Dispatch beat writer for MSU. It's hard to believe

The Peeper · Monday at 10:12 AM

this is still an employment position in this day and age of AI, most every event being streamed live online, live online stats, podcasts, etc. In the "old days" you had to wait for a guy like this to write an article on a deadline at night to get it to the pressman back at the newspaper building by a certain time to see what happened in the morning paper the next day. Now you can type in a website and see live stats the moment they happen, see the box score as it happens, and read an AI summarized article during or just after the game. I don't envy his battle to compete, hope he enjoys what he does and his time here but................

ll Martain ll · Monday at 11:10 AM

Good for him.

Also, 17 AI content. We're going to look back in 10 years when no one can use their brain anymore because AI wiped out all of the entry level jobs and no one has skills to climb the career ladder.

Bulldog45 · Monday at 11:28 AM

I for one like reading sports stories with a human element to them (think Rick Cleveland’s stuff) so welcome aboard.

Dawgbite · Monday at 11:52 AM

I figure sports, especially high school, and obituaries are the only thing still selling newspapers.

maroontide06 · Monday at 12:09 PM

Dawgbite said:
I figure sports, especially high school, and obituaries are the only thing still selling newspapers.

My grandparents house made the front page of The Clarion Ledger back in 1948 simply because the editor was driving by and had never seen a blue house in Jackson before.

triton28 · Monday at 12:12 PM

The Peeper said:
this is still an employment position in this day and age of AI, most every event being streamed live online, live online stats, podcasts, etc. In the "old days" you had to wait for a guy like this to write an article on a deadline at night to get it to the pressman back at the newspaper building by a certain time to see what happened in the morning paper the next day. Now you can type in a website and see live stats the moment they happen, see the box score as it happens, and read an AI summarized article during or just after the game. I don't envy his battle to compete, hope he enjoys what he does and his time here but................

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Great way to launder money is to have a local newspaper

johnson86-1 · Monday at 12:15 PM

triton28 said:
Great way to launder money is to have a local newspaper

Do local newspapers do a lot of cash business? That was not on my list of businesses to use to launder money.

CochiseCowbell · Monday at 12:19 PM

Dawgbite said:
I figure sports, especially high school, and obituaries are the only thing still selling newspapers.

You're telling me you're finding roommates somewhere other than the classifieds?

The Peeper · Monday at 12:25 PM

Dawgbite said:
I figure sports, especially high school, and obituaries are the only thing still selling newspapers.

I even get an email every morning from the funeral home in my hometown telling me who died and you can go to Legacy.com and find most any obit anywhere in the country w/ just a few facts to search with so that business probably has declined for the newspapers too.
I loved the newspapers growing up and even into my adult hood. My sister and brother in law live in Atlanta and when we visited there I could take their Atlanta Journal Constitution and read it for 4-5 hours straight, it was huge. I still read every issue of the Starkville Dispatch online. I've tried the Starkville Daily News, what a waste of trees and soy ink though, its turrible and I won't be surprised when they announce they are shutting the doors.

dorndawg · Monday at 12:28 PM

johnson86-1 said:
Do local newspapers do a lot of cash business? That was not on my list of businesses to use to launder money.

I want to say this was a plot device in "Ozarks"? Maybe I'm mis-remembering, but yeah I can't imagine a local newspaper generating actual cash. I could definitely see some of them being nice little money makers.

greenbean.sixpack · Monday at 1:02 PM

I thought money was "laundered" through laundry mats and titty bars?

85Bears · Monday at 1:04 PM

greenbean.sixpack said:
I thought money was "laundered" through laundry mats and titty bars?

Ukraine took it to the next level

FormerBully · Monday at 1:07 PM

It is all about online presence. Different topic but similar business, how much longer will WCBI and WTVA be around? I used to only watch WTVA for the weather, but with Matt having his own thing now, I do not watch it all.

The Peeper · Monday at 1:52 PM

FormerBully said:
It is all about online presence. Different topic but similar business, how much longer will WCBI and WTVA be around? I used to only watch WTVA for the weather, but with Matt having his own thing now, I do not watch it all.

Watching either of them in the early morning makes me want to pluck my eyeballs out. They do way more commercials than news sports weather and its obviously the same forecast you must saw before last commercial interruption.

WCBI is the worst tv station by far that I have had in my "local viewing area" in the last 60 years of watching tv.

vhdawg · Monday at 1:56 PM

The Peeper said:
this is still an employment position in this day and age of AI, most every event being streamed live online, live online stats, podcasts, etc. In the "old days" you had to wait for a guy like this to write an article on a deadline at night to get it to the pressman back at the newspaper building by a certain time to see what happened in the morning paper the next day. Now you can type in a website and see live stats the moment they happen, see the box score as it happens, and read an AI summarized article during or just after the game. I don't envy his battle to compete, hope he enjoys what he does and his time here but................

I assume AI content is why I see tweets from the Clarion Ledger during a Super Regional offering to tell me basic facts about MSU's head coach.

DoggieDaddy13 · Monday at 2:01 PM

Bulldog45 said:
I for one like reading sports stories with a human element to them (think Rick Cleveland’s stuff) so welcome aboard.

I remember the days of Paul Borden and Orley Hood and Billy Watkins.

Reading about MSU sports was so fun then. Tyler, Early Bellard, Polk I, Bond, Thunder & Lightning, Peck, Malone. They made us sound great, or at least important, no matter how bad it got.

They were exceptional writers.

Bulldog45 · Monday at 2:18 PM

The Peeper said:
I loved the newspapers growing up and even into my adult hood.

We lived in the country and got the clarion ledger delivered, but my grandparents lived in town and got the Jackson daily news in the afternoon and that was always a big deal if I was there, I’d get to read an extra sports section.

dogmatic001 · Monday at 2:46 PM

It's important that he writes stories no one else is telling. The days of writing a gamer and calling it a day are long gone, but there's definitely an appetite for content from a beat reporter with enthusiasm and drive. It's entirely up to him to make it good.

*I'm an old newspaper guy myself and would be doing it still if it paid enough to live on.

MagicDawg · Monday at 5:29 PM

The Peeper said:
I even get an email every morning from the funeral home in my hometown telling me who died and you can go to Legacy.com and find most any obit anywhere in the country w/ just a few facts to search with so that business probably has declined for the newspapers too.
I loved the newspapers growing up and even into my adult hood. My sister and brother in law live in Atlanta and when we visited there I could take their Atlanta Journal Constitution and read it for 4-5 hours straight, it was huge. I still read every issue of the Starkville Dispatch online. I've tried the Starkville Daily News, what a waste of trees and soy ink though, its turrible and I won't be surprised when they announce they are shutting the doors.

It has gotten really expensive to get your obituary in printed newspapers in many cities. My mother in law died in March and the Commercial Appeal wanted hundreds of dollars to do anything more than 3 lines. Her family decided to skip it and just do online.

Colonel Angus.sixpack · Monday at 6:57 PM

I saw a guy buy a newspaper in the airport the other day. Had to do a double take because I can’t remember the last time I saw someone buy a paper.

Badon · Monday at 11:40 PM

MagicDawg said:
It has gotten really expensive to get your obituary in printed newspapers in many cities. My mother in law died in March and the Commercial Appeal wanted hundreds of dollars to do anything more than 3 lines. Her family decided to skip it and just do online.

Had to pay for one in recent years at an out of town paper. $700

QuadrupleOption · Tuesday at 9:24 AM

maroontide06 said:
My grandparents house made the front page of The Clarion Ledger back in 1948 simply because the editor was driving by and had never seen a blue house in Jackson before.

I looked over some old Ranking County papers from the early 1900s and they would literally report on people visiting family in other counties.

maroontide06 · Tuesday at 10:15 AM

QuadrupleOption said:
I looked over some old Ranking County papers from the early 1900s and they would literally report on people visiting family in other counties.

News in a newspaper back then wasn't all bad. They reported on things they saw, things that people were doing, and just giving folks news on what was happening in the community. A newspaper company in the current age could probably learn a lot by looking at some of these old newspapers and how they did things. If they were to implement some of that today, they could probably try to turn things around for newspapers. In the grand scheme of things it wasn't really all that long ago when newspapers were still good. They just took an extremely rapid downturn, but is something that could be fixed if they had some pride in what they put out.

MagicDawg · Tuesday at 11:24 AM

Badon said:
Had to pay for one in recent years at an out of town paper. $700

Yep. It was going to be $800-$1000 for hers. She would have haunted my wife forever if we had spent that!

ReverseCowbell · Tuesday at 9:58 PM

The Peeper said:
this is still an employment position in this day and age of AI, most every event being streamed live online, live online stats, podcasts, etc. In the "old days" you had to wait for a guy like this to write an article on a deadline at night to get it to the pressman back at the newspaper building by a certain time to see what happened in the morning paper the next day. Now you can type in a website and see live stats the moment they happen, see the box score as it happens, and read an AI summarized article during or just after the game. I don't envy his battle to compete, hope he enjoys what he does and his time here but................

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That article is chopped up like a tic-tac-toe board. Wth?

New Starkville Dispatch beat writer for MSU. It's hard to believe

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