I've noticed and heard/read from many sources (including Brad K here) about the pressure to write ever-shorter articles, best suited (so the theory goes) to the gnat-like attention spans and on-line reading habits of the modern age. I'll leave aside the suggestion that these articles may in fact be encouraging -- not responding to -- our shorter attention spans. I'll say instead that, in a month of purposely trying to do all my golf reading (golf week, GD, golf magazine etc) on line, nothing could have prepared me for just how very short and superficial the articles have become. I used to be a freelance writer, and maybe one day I will be again, and so it pains me to see the potential demise of all these print publications. But if magazines like SI and GD do die, it'll be the editors and writers there who are digging the graves (and administering the deadly poison). I say: come on, boys, step up to the plate. If you're going down anyway, you might as well go down swinging/writing the best you possibly can. On the other hand, maybe I have the writers/editiors pegged all wrong; maybe these are exactly the kind of articles and writing you want to do, and that you do best. If so, I say: shame on you.
Peter