National Access

As Alex French and Howie Kahn write in their oral history of The National Sports Dailyfor Grantland, “The paper is emblematic of the parts of culture and media that were not yet ready to converge.  Typewriters and satellites.”  That was in the early 1990’s.  Now, a decade into the 21^st century, that is no longer true, and readers regularly consume sports through technology more advanced than typewriters and satellites.  And while sports fans have measureless access to sports journalism now, the lack of access to The National was what ultimately ruined the paper.