Bad news from the United Center

Just heard in the press room that the Daily Southtown was told by the Chicago Sun-Times to stop sendin its hockey writer to Blackhawks games. The Daily Southtown is supposed to use the Sun-Times story or the AP. Hopefully this doesnt mean people are about to lose their jobs in the Sun-Times News Group. But who knows.

 

regardless of the sport - this is sad on many levels. while not a fan of the NHL, it's still a sport. i can understand travel cuts, but if a team is at home, they should be covered. This isn't the Arena League.
as for one paper telling another's writer what they can and cannot do - I don't think that's right. Can someone else who was there, or has heard about this, enlighten us further?

 

Eh, you're kicking a long-dead horse. I stopped caring almost a decade ago.

 

They stopped long, long ago.

 

I was not there and really don't know any of the specifics. Maybe I'm misunderstanding your point, but I believe the Sun-Times is the parent company of the Southtown, meaning the Sun-Times can tell the Southtown to do whatever it wants.

 

Here's the question: Will the Daily Southtown continue staffing Fire matches in the spring? If the answer is yes, that should be a warning shot to Wirtz (which he will promptly ignore) about where his irrelevant franchise stands.

 

that'd be nice, but the S-town no longer sends staffers to the Fire.

 

Isn't that more troubling? I thought the Fire's new stadium was pretty much directly in the heart of the Southtown's coverage area. Seems like they will have more a NW Herald/Kane County Chronicle type relationship building here.

 

it is troubling and I don't quite understand it. it's something the Southtown should OWN like no one else, but i'd say the Tribune guy does the best job covering soccer in the city. honestly, i dont even know if the STimes has a presence there.

 

So this can kind of turn into a chicken-and-egg question: is the franchise irrelevant because the local paper doesn't cover it? Or does the local paper not cover it because the franchise is irrelevant?

Not that I agree with the statement that the franchise is irrelevant, but...

 

Oh well. They used to do a pretty good job with the soccer coverage, didn't they?