My 11-year-old subscribes to SI and loves it and will miss it.
Yes, there are other sources of sports news online, but I don’t want my kids clutching their iPad and Chromebook every waking minute.
Print journalism/media is an antidote to the distraction epidemic and our capitalist overlords are actively hollowing it all out.
But at the end of the day, we’re the consumers, and we still have the choice to pay for professional journalism if we care about the truth.