Old school knowledge(magazines) vs New School (internet)

I agree with the differences but to me the primary difference is before the internet the magazine contained the information which required those interested to READ THAT magazine so most of our baseline information was the same. The internet allows for opposing views, flat out lies or distorted views to be placed on it and unless the reader knows the difference or has the pre-requisite knowledge going into the weblink he will not know any different giving birth to the internet experts going off bad information. When I was a kid I watched the fights read the magazine articles or went to the library to read biographies of fighters to better understand the story behind the fighters.

Another bonus of the internet is the ability to watch the fighters fights if available which is unprecedented to the older generations....we can rewatch the great fights and study the great fighters skill and can now debate the old timers accounts or the articles from our own observations....the benefit of endless study of an available fight over and over is an advantage the old writers never had.

 

The internet has much more cream but way more ****

 

Kalan?? not here....please not here

 

Are you saying I cant find a specific thing on the net opposed to a magazine that won't have the detailed information I actually will find on the net more than not ?

Someone who writes in a magazine doesn't automatically mean they know more, it means they have had access to go to e ents or getting paid to do research.


You are literally doing the same with what's at your finger tips....the info you have access to now will give you more accurate information BC you have u limited sources to look up.


You learn more from actual video BC you then have visual evidence, that's what the net provides that magazine's bias writers at times provide.

Of course books are always good to have for extra insight, like boxing history, technique s..etc.....I have old martial arts mags with interviews for instance you probably won't find on the net..boxing mags too you probably have lost or rare stuff...but there's no comparison, the net is a far better source.

 

I don't see the distinction, why does there have to be two camps? I take advantage of anything written that is pertinent to my interest and any footage that I can find.
The problem, with old fights is we often only have edited highlights to form our opinions, the back up of ringside reports from whichever boxing writers an individual fan respects are a valuable back up resource ,imo.

 

You have to be a lot more selective with the Internet. Information is easy to come by, but accurate knowledge is harder to acquire. I see the benefit of both but I'm more wary of information acquired from the Internet as anyone can publish their point of view masquerading as fact, whereas in the pre-Internet days to get your point of view or actual knowledge published, there was a significant barrier to entry which meant that people tended to know what they were talking about when it appeared in print. Now the information you get online is like the letter pages at the end of the boxing magazines, except there is no expert to validate or disprove those opinions.

 

I am probably biased, but I feel like the old school boxing magazines had better overall quality of writing than the internet boxing sites. Now, it is true that some of the same writers have worked both mediums. I think there were fewer job openings in the field pre internet so the quality of writers was higher.

Steve Farhood was an English major who got into Sports Journalism. I feel like reading his stuff voraciously from age 15 on helped me in my writing.

My dad used to haze me for reading boxing mags. He thought it was junk reading, but I showed him some of Farhood's work and he acknowledged it was quality writing. I even learned some vocabulary words from reading boxing mags that I had not learned in school.

There was a writer for the Ring in the '80s who was extremely articulate, as well.

In analyzing the too laid back nature of James Tillis he said "Sometimes I wish I took time to smell the flowers, sometimes I'm glad I don't." His name was something Herbert Goldman, I think.