It used to be the only way you would witness really bad behavior or the Prima Donna behavior Go described was first hand. Now that everyone has a hand held video camera capable of posting video to the world in seconds, we get to witness all the bad behavior, at every level, 24/7.
We even had Oregon’s coach record his trash talk tirade and send it to the world. That didn’t happened much 30 years ago if at all. It’s the Steven A. Smith school of sports journalism that probably started with Jim Rome.