David Newton finally retires

[PleaseCutStewart]

34 minutes ago, WaterBoy said:

my all time favorite David Newton clip

Don't think I have ever seen that one. Freaking hilarious

[PleaseCutStewart]

25 minutes ago, jfra78 said:

Yall act like we suddenly gonna get better coverage

I will happily take no ESPN reporter for us over Newton

[micnificent28]

i finally rest..

 

[jopie87]

Next stop: Super Bowl.

 

[h0llywood]

Just our luck, we are going to get stuck with Dianna Russini 

[Mistuh Jones]

If "phoning it in" was a person

[electro's horse]

The job just really passed him by.

He came up when basically you just needed to get three or four quotes, toss a couple of team provided stats in there, and stretch it out to column length. you got your copy in by 330, out the door by 4, then chill/shmooze the rest of the day.

If you were really good you got a book deal. Every now and then you got to write an editorial. The goal of the profession was like Peter King where ostensibly you’re a beat writer for whomever but you get paid to just shoot the poo.

now it’s a 24 hour job, you’ve gotta be social media savvy, the pace has increased substantially, you’re expected to produce more than ever, you gotta be able to look through bullshit etc. there’s still risk of industry capture where you just become a mouth piece. Sheena Quick is obviously shameless. I don’t think Newton ever aspired to be more than an inoffensive beat writer, but even that relatively simple role was just more than he was cut out for.

its even worse when you’re covering a team that expects the Fourth Estate to act as a PR extension, or considers them on par with buying Twitter bots to promote Bryce.

there were over thirty papers that covered the panthers first training camp. In that environment there’s room for boring guys like newton, and they may even be incentivized to push the boundary a little. But today that just isn’t the case and most of the guys are hanging on until retirement (person, gantt) or they’re good and gonna be matched up like Jordan.

im not defending the current state of sports journalism, just saying that what counts as a meat and potatoes beat writer passed newton by. He’s retiring well past his sell by date, but that’s pretty common for his generation in general. 

[jasonluckydog]

He is a great guy but a horrible reporter. He makes my skin crawl when I hear his name. I heard that babies cry and dogs attack him when he enters a room. Other than that he is a good dude. Now go burn in hades u sum bit. 

[electro's horse]

22 minutes ago, h0llywood said:

Just our luck, we are going to get stuck with Dianna Russini 

[LinvilleGorge]

3 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

Never understood the hate for him.

Best wishes to him for the future. It's almost unheard of for someone to have a forty year career in journalism nowadays, that speaks volumes.

It speaks volumes about what a joke the field of sports journalism is.

[strato]

1 minute ago, LinvilleGorge said:

It speaks volumes about what a joke the field of sports journalism is.

Bro you can take “sports” out of that. It is everywhere.  

[LinvilleGorge]

1 minute ago, strato said:

Bro you can take “sports” out of that. It is everywhere.  

Not wrong.

[Shocker]

Thanks for your work with the Panthers and ESPN covering the team.  Enjoy your retirement and good luck

[Joe Bear]

4 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

Never understood the hate for him.

Best wishes to him for the future. It's almost unheard of for someone to have a forty year career in journalism nowadays, that speaks volumes.

Definitely wish him well in his retirement. But he was kind of a dickhead aside from the opinions of fans here.