Miami Herald Super Bowl week

To be clear, I was only referring to the flashback series.

I thought the seven deadly sins and much of the rest was ponderous and uninteresting.

 

That is a spot-on description of the dilemma dacing newspapers, especially those in competitive markets.

 

Chicago Trib's Monday a.m. headline:

UNBEARABLE!

How the hell can a paper that has been writing on the Bears for decades come up with a main headline that lame? UNBEARABLE should be off limits for any paper on a Bears story, ESPECIALLY a Chicago paper.

I was in Miami all week and preferred the Sentinel and the Herald to the Trib (the Trib was shipped to media headquarters). It's just, IMO.

 

Sure. How about WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED? [/three bears]

 

I agree with Brett on the enterprise stuff. I also agree with the notion that there's often more information in the sports section than a person can digest. But that's not always a bad thing. Variety is good, and people have different interests. The best way to go, of course, is to balance enterprise with other stuff. I didn't see the section, but I wonder how much of it was filler. It might be helpful to see some of the pages, and it would shed a lot of light if we knew how things went from concept to print. It's possible that the ME called for sports to run a 20-page section daily. In other words, it might have been a project that was thrust upon the department.

 

The Chicago Tribune was the paper that banned game stories, right? Maybe I missed this mentioned above, but did it have one for the Super Bowl? Did they back off their decision?