Towards   journalism as a form of entertainmen

Casanovas, Josep M.

Revistes Catalanes amb Accés Obert

78 Towards journalism as a form of entertainment 
JOSEP M. CASANOVAS 
The author refers to the changes which have corne about in sports 
journalism in the last twenty years. "Corruption, scandals and fraud 
have swept away the traditional reports that our parents used to read", 
he claims. 
The journalist dea ls with the tradition o f sports journalism in Catalo-
nia, referring to the decade o f the 1970s when three s ports daily papers 
were published in the city: "El Mundo Deportivo", "Dicen" a nd "4-2-
4", when "Sport" appeared, with the political transition in full swing, 
at a difficult tíme. Twelve years later things had changed: sport had 
become a very strong social phenomenon. The sports press had con-
solidated its position prompting the media to give sport a leading role. 
And now sports journalists are preparing for their own private com-
petition in the shape of the Olympic Games. 
83 The future of sports journalism in Catalonia 
MARTÍ P ERARNAU 
University sources explain that there are increasingly more students 
in the Information Sciences Faculty who are interested in sports 129 
journalism. The author remembers thatjournalism dealing with sport 
was still considered, until the beginning of the 1980s, to be "a minar 
genre", in spite of a brilliant tradition in Catalonia. 
One man, a journalist, Alex J. Botines (R.I.P.) made the qualítative 
leap possible in 1974, according to Perarnau. Botines "created" the 
bowels of sport, he created another model and founded a school". 
At the moment, says the writer, the country's sporting reality has im-
proved and the journalism which specialises in this subject matter 
has become more and more sensitive, faithful and vigorous. Looking 
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