This doesn't only apply to sports journalism, but journalism as a whole. You can see it with mainstream media outlets being driven by an agenda as opposed to getting facts. I don't want to go down that path, but I think it could apply to baseball. Facts can be spun to push a certain agenda. "Out-getters? What in the heck are those? It sounds like a first grader talking about playground ball. Out-getters... geesch!!!!" Then, when the W's started piling up, a writer can do one of a few things: 1. Write about something else; or 2: do some analysis to see why it is working. All in all, I truly believe that Journalism is nowhere near the quality craft it was before the Internet became a pillar of our lives. How many times do we see misspellings, wrong pictures, or bush-league headlines? Time to market is very small that shortcuts on time and personnel are made resulting in a crappier product. It is almost like being a meteorologist...