Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936
Post Number: 2131 Registered: 01-2005
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 1:26 pm: | |
Maybe this should go on the sports thread, but I'm more curious about this as a Detroit newspaper item than sports. Picked up both the News and Freep during my recent visit, and found it curious that there was practically no interest in the playoffs in the sports section. The only mention of the Red Sox beating Cleveland was a wire service story buried on the back page. Had the Tigers been in the playoffs, the first four pages would have been nothing but baseball stories. I'd suggest that the Detroit media has become extremely provincial. Their slogan should be "If it happens elsewhere, we don't care." (An aside: The Las Vegas Review-Journal has three pages starting on page one of the sports section about the upcoming world series.) |
Detroitrise Member Username: Detroitrise
Post Number: 335 Registered: 09-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 1:27 pm: | |
It's only fair. They would do the same thing to us if we were in the Playoffs and not them. Biesdes, that's why those Sports fanatics have ESPN for. |
Spitty Member Username: Spitty
Post Number: 628 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 1:28 pm: | |
Las Vegas is where people gamble on sports, and the World Series is a big deal for gamblers. What does the Minneapolis newspaper say? That would be a better comparison. |
The_ed Member Username: The_ed
Post Number: 294 Registered: 10-2007
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 1:30 pm: | |
Ray1936 "Had the Tigers been in the playoffs, the first four pages would have been nothing but baseball stories." There it is right there! No Tigers in the playoffs, no playoff story on the front page. |
Hudkina Member Username: Hudkina
Post Number: 69 Registered: 12-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 2:07 pm: | |
I thought it was called the Detroit News, not the Boston Globe... |
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway
Post Number: 1388 Registered: 11-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 2:45 pm: | |
Another example of how the dailies are not even a shadow of their former selves. |
Scs_scooter Member Username: Scs_scooter
Post Number: 30 Registered: 07-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 2:52 pm: | |
There is hardly any Nascar coverage either. When the event is here in Michigan, maybe a brief mention in the sports page of how the reporter got to act like a crew chief for a day but this is the Motor City...Nascar should count. Glad I'm online and don't have to rely on the Freep or News. |
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell
Post Number: 4270 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 4:46 pm: | |
Yeah and their coverage of handball really sucks! |
Gumby Member Username: Gumby
Post Number: 1621 Registered: 11-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 4:48 pm: | |
Don't get me started on their curling coverage. |
Downtownguy Member Username: Downtownguy
Post Number: 82 Registered: 07-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 5:03 pm: | |
That's why I finally gave up buying the print version. Sure, they are Detroit papers, but newspapers used to carry national and international news. Good luck getting anything more than a paragraph on any international stories in the Detroit papers these days. |
Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 606 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 6:12 pm: | |
that's what you're supposed to listen to NPR for... |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 5256 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 6:27 pm: | |
Whoa and how about their marbles tournament coverage... |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 2997 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 7:10 pm: | |
it's right up there with cricket, feather bowling, and pentaque |
Aiw Member Username: Aiw
Post Number: 6419 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 7:45 pm: | |
Well I am in Toronto for work today, and the local newspaper here has the first two pages dedicated to the World Series. So the argument of one baseball market ignoring another has just been debunked. |
Detroit_stylin Member Username: Detroit_stylin
Post Number: 5260 Registered: 10-2003
| Posted on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 - 7:56 pm: | |
lol Lilpup... |
Soomka1 Member Username: Soomka1
Post Number: 58 Registered: 02-2007
| Posted on Thursday, October 25, 2007 - 12:12 am: | |
Why would they put NASCAR coverage in the paper? I didn't think NASCAR fans were too big on readin' an' writin' an such. |