MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The soft soaps in the press box

MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | The soft soaps in the press box: "Sports journalism often receives a bad press. It has been characterised as the quintessential 'toy department' of journalism, a bastion of sloppy and lazy practice that is divorced from the rigorous constraints applied to other areas of the trade. Often this critique has been well merited. Yet what constitutes sports journalism or, more accurately, journalism about sports, is changing. In the past decade there has been a substantial expansion across print, broadcasting and online media."

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