AJC and Hartford Courant not covering Super Bowl

[Mizzougrad96]

According to Editor and Publisher.

Hartford doesn't stun me, especially if they don't regularly cover the Pats. The AJC stuns the **** out of me. What is that a 7-hour drive from Atlanta to Tampa? Holy ****. I worked at a paper nowhere close to the level of the AJC and they would never have any fewer than five at a Super Bowl.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/category/rumor-mill/

 

[imjustagirl]

I worked at a paper nowhere close to the level of the AJC and they would never have any fewer than five at a Super Bowl.

Those were different times, Mizzou.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

No kidding, but a paper like the AJC having no one at a game played in a bordering state is unimaginable.

 

[Cousin Jeffrey]

especially with georgia's finest, hines ward, there!

 

[Mizzougrad96]

especially with georgia's finest, hines ward, there!

Honestly, that's reason enough to send someone. If someone had asked me how many the AJC was sending this year, I would have guessed two writers and a columnist.

 

[imjustagirl]

especially with georgia's finest, hines ward, there!

Honestly, that's reason enough to send someone. If someone had asked me how many the AJC was sending this year, I would have guessed two writers and a columnist.

Then you haven't been paying attention.

I'd have assumed they were sending someone...but not three someones.

 

[spnited]

And I doubt your former paper is sending 5 this year, Mizzou.

 

[playthrough]

Hines Ward, plus former Falcons TE Ken Whisenhunt.

Maybe the AJC can sweet-talk one of its 10 or more former employees in Tampa (Kindred, Mort, etc.) into filing something.

"Oh, there'll be no money. But when you die, on your death bed, you will receive total consciousness."

 

[Mizzougrad96]

And I doubt your former paper is sending 5 this year, Mizzou.

They're sending four.

 

[imjustagirl]

That's a ****ing joke.

 

[MileHigh]

Got three from my shop there.
Of course, I hope we're still printing a product by Monday to run their stuff.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

especially with georgia's finest, hines ward, there!

Honestly, that's reason enough to send someone. If someone had asked me how many the AJC was sending this year, I would have guessed two writers and a columnist.

Then you haven't been paying attention.

I'd have assumed they were sending someone...but not three someones.

Trust me, I know way more than I wish to about cutbacks and not covering something that would have been a given in any other year. But the AJC not covering the Super Bowl is stunning.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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

 

[beardpuller]

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.

 

[spnited]

And I doubt your former paper is sending 5 this year, Mizzou.

They're sending four.

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

 

[Mizzougrad96]

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.

 

[cyclingwriter]

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.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

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.

 

[beardpuller]

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.

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.

 

[Ace]

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.

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