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AJC and Hartford Courant not covering Super Bowl

Discussion in 'Journalism topics only' started by Mizzougrad96, Jan 27, 2009.

  1. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    Most papers in NFL cities typically have three to five at the Super Bowl.
     
  2. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    It is a stunning decision.
    I keep looking around, seeing people who ARE here and feeling relieved. Must be what it's like to be 90 and shuffle into the senior citizens' center, hoping everybody you saw there yesterday made it through the night.

    We have me and the NFL writer, with a columnist coming late in the week who will stay and do some spring training stuff.
     
  3. spnited

    spnited Active Member


    And when is the next rouond of buyouts/layoffs coming?
     
  4. Mizzougrad96

    Mizzougrad96 Active Member

    According to the story, the Chicago Tribune has three at the game. The Dallas Morning News has four or five, the NY Times has 11. I'm not saying you have to send that many, but if you're in Atlanta, you send someone, even if it's only one.
     
  5. cyclingwriter

    cyclingwriter Active Member

    Reminds me of an old Furman Bisher quote about the first Super Bowl, which the AJC (or its non-hyphended predecessors) did not attend. My editor said there was nothing to the game worth covering. He was a man of great genius.
     
  6. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    The Boston Herald, a struggling entity for years now, has two people at the game. If I lived in Atlanta, it would give me great pleasure to cancel my subscription today.
     
  7. beardpuller

    beardpuller Active Member

    Yeah. 'Cause its not like this is something fans care about, or anything.

    I think some folks have the buyout/layoff thing wrong -- you end up buying out and laying off people because you DON'T cover the stuff readers care about, not because you do.
     
  8. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    They now cover the South like the dew covers a Dixie Cup.
     
  9. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    If you guys would just stay at the Motel 6 and not hoard your damn Marriott points, newspapers would be hiring and we'd all be going to the Super Bowl. [/Alma]

    With that said, however, no event has a higher reporter-to-good-story ratio over the years than the freaking Super Bowl.
     
  10. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    The NY Times has 11? For Pittsburgh-Arizona? That's absurd, if it's true.
     
  11. Ace

    Ace Well-Known Member

    10 of them are mojos and bloggers, though.
     
  12. playthrough

    playthrough Moderator Staff Member

    Did any of them make it to that Poynter thing? [/crossthread]
     
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