Unnewsworthy Metropolitans

[Guest d'Kong76]

I get the print edition of the NY Times on the weekends,
Fri-Sun, I think they call it the weekender or something.
I'm sure you've seen it advertised.

Flipping through section B reading about Yahoo and it's
Alibaba billions I make it to the sports section. Now, of
course I expect Jeterpalooza (yes, I stole that from some-
one's post yesterday, thanks) and there's three pages of
it. Fine. The Mets played a doubleheader yesterday and
there is no article about the games. Nothing. They are
buried in the Roundup section along with five other games
under the title; After Loss, the Mets are Guaranteed a
Losing Record for the Sixth Straight Season.

I don't think I've ever opened a New York newspaper the
day after an east coast Mets' game and not find coverage
of the game, games in this case. There is a whole page
devoted to the Ryder Cup. That's in Scotland, in case
you didn't know. What time did the NY Football Giants
game end last night? They got almost a full page too.

"All the News That's Fit to Print" -- Bah!

[MFS62]

It also happened recently in the newspaper with a motto that should be, "All the news that's shit, they print" - the Daily News. As noted here in the pool, there was no mention of the Mets game in either the on-line or the print edition.

Later

[Edgy MD]

Yeah, I've seen September games in lost seasons go unreported, save for the wire service roundup, but probably, yeah, for East Coast games, one of which was during the day, that's pretty unusual.

[Guest d'Kong76]

I'm sure I have to, but don't recall. I suppose it's the
over-coverage of the stuff going on in the northern
borough that made it stand out so much.

But really, they didn't send someone to cover this
series at all? Are they really that unnewsworthy?

And unnewsworthy is a word Mr. Chrome, so stop
underlining it in red!

[Ceetar]

If they were really innovative they could've elicited a fan story. grab a blog entry, hell, 'hire' a September intern from a local school.

[Edgy MD]

I imagine it wasn't that they didn't have a beat guy at the show, but rather a question of space and priorities.

Even the Harvey angle is a heckuva story that's everywhere this morning.

Everywhere but the Times, that is.

[Ceetar]

I imagine it wasn't that they didn't have a beat guy at the show, but rather a question of space and priorities. Even the Harvey angle is a heckuva story that's everywhere this morning. Everywhere but the Times, that is.

nah, you routinely see the beat guys tweeting that they're not on the road trip in September. Or they move them to the Yankees beat for it.

here:
19 days ago

Seth_Everett's avatar Seth Everett @Seth_Everett Hey @TimRohan, there's APB out 4 u in the Mets Radio Booth (@MetsBooth) u haven't been seen since u're story from Vegas & there is concern. DetailsOpen TimRohan's avatar Tim Rohan @TimRohan @Seth_Everett hah! I'm covering the Yankees, filling in for Waldo

Tom Rohan is the Times beat guy. Looks like they do repub AP stories though, so probably a space thing as well.

[Edgy MD]

Sure, but that doesn't mean they don't have an alternative stepping in, of only a stringer. Or yeah, just ask for more than a paragraph from the wire service.

[Ceetar]

This is the WSJ not the Times, but I imagine their might be similar philosophies.

[Edgy MD]

Sports is still a relatively new field for the Journal, and they don't seem to feel obliged to run game reports every day.

[Ceetar]

Edgy MD wrote: Sports is still a relatively new field for the Journal, and they don't seem to feel obliged to run game reports every day.

Agreed. I feel like I've seen similar sentiments from the NYT guys over the years though is all.

Just observing, I'm not really concerned with what gets printed in the physical papers.