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Lol, imagine if "sports" was part of the origin story of news as a concept.
I take issue with sports being in headline news practically every day, or multiple days per week at least.
I have nothing against people enjoying sports, but it's a hobby like any other, which I think is unreasonably thrust upon everyone else.
Where is the eSports news, or competitive dancing, woodworking news, or as I'm sure we can all agree on Lemmy, what about my old electronic gadget of the week news?
When I had The Guardian app, it was quite annoying that sports was lumped in with the push notifications for actual news.
I'm just saying sports news ought to be opt-in like any other hobby.
I agree. I can't stand that every restaurant or bar has to have a TV or 20 that are all tuned to talking heads blowing hot air over what sports guy #876,914 did last night, or what sports guy #1,456,888 will do tomorrow night.
Even when it's live sports, the broadcast is still more commercials than game, every square inch of the playing area is plastered with ads, plus the ads that are on the overlay, plus this instant replay is brought to you by A1 Hemorrhoid cream, from the Mega-Car Savings Plus Center, at beautiful Jack the Ambulance Chaser Stadium: "When you drive drunk, call Jack to blame on the innocent™!"
Oh but haven't you heard? It's vital to your career and social life that you pick a sportsball team. Else what ever will you answer when someone asks 😯???
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
what were they thinking??????
How many innings are in a football game?
I'm gonna sound like an asshole, but that stuff isn't in there because the people reading newspapers don't care about those things
I should specify, it's in the context of tv news and other headline notifications in news apps, or front page.
I don't read print newspapers, and have nothing against sports being covered in any news org, as long as it's not put front and centre where you can't escape it haha
In Australia they've started doing horoscopes as part of the evening news. I'm not joking.
Lol, how would they even fit that in? What channel?
Byzantine politics did have political parties and professional sports teams as literally the same thing, so it's not completely insane as a concept.
Also weather wasn't part of news (as in published news) at first, unless they were reporting what it was currently doing right now, because it predated forecasting by about 300 years.
Oh now, we've been predicting the weather far longer than you imagine. We just haven't been very good at it until fairly recently.
When newspapers first started to be published they weren't printed daily it was just whenever they felt like they had enough news. And it took days for them to create the paper and for them to print all of the copies so even very vague estimates of the weather would have been out of date by the time they were actually selling them.