Blowers' ways missed in clinical era of reporting
Anachronistic, perhaps, but personalities like Henry Blofeld will be missed in this clinical new era of sports reporting, writes Scott Murray in the Guardian .
Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
Anachronistic, perhaps, but personalities like Henry Blofeld will be missed in this clinical new era of sports reporting, writes Scott Murray in the Guardian.
Compare and contrast Blofeld's carry-on to the way modern sports hacks operate. Recently, in a story rather less shocking and surprising than 11 professional cricketers mustering just over a run per man between them, a former Newcastle United footballer took over as the manager of Newcastle United. This meant action stations on Rolling 24-Hour Breaking Quotes service Sky Sports News, whose chuck-everything-into-the-pot news agenda can be summed up with the pithy maxim: if it spews from Sam Matterface's face, it matters. Mustering levels of gravitas not witnessed on television since Walter Cronkite slowly took off his spectacles to announce the death of President Kennedy on CBS in November 1963, the Sky anchor STARTED TALKING IN CAPITAL LETTERS, THEN BOLD, THEN WHEN THEY MOVED ACROSS LIVE TO ST JAMES PARK, BOLD ITALICS. WITH THREE EXCLAMATION MARKS!!!
Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo