Boston Herald boycotting Northeastern

[Stitch]

http://www.huntington-news.com/news/boston-herald-boycotts-huskies-1.2159653

A boycott like this seems silly. Shouldn't the beat writers have known about the presser?

 

[JimmyHoward33]

I think the NU guy who calls a presser that explaining cutting a football program a "fantastic success" isn't thinking clearly. Like asking Mrs. Lincln how she liked the play.

Also think the Herald people should've known about the thing. But having that said, being in Boston, no body cares about college basketball.

 

[nate41]

I'm a Northeastern guy, and Mike Armini, the University's director of communications is an idiot.

Word on the street is the higher ups at NU consider the Herald to be a conservative rag not worthy of their time.

Sports Info. did not handle the football issue, thus why it was butchered by the non-sports people.

While college basketball may not be a big scene in Boston, the Huskies are one of the few regional the teams that has a legit shot at making the NCAA tourney.

 

[dooley_womack1]

Oh waaahh. Stop whining, Herald, and think of the readers.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

1. You could make the argument the Herald devotes more of its very limited resources to college basketball than interest warrants. That was true in my day, anyway.

2. Sports editor is a Northeastern alum.

3. Without knowing facts, will side with my newspaper alma mater in this dispute.

 

[Walter_Sobchak]

While the boycott is silly, I doubt many readers have noticed.

Northeastern has no shot at making the NCAA tournament, outside winning the CAAs. Its RPI is in the 60s, and its non-conference wins are Wright State, Utah State, SMU, Kent State and Santa Clara. The Huskies are not even on the radar of Boston sports fans.

That said, the Herald can't dictate the news. And if this was BC, no chance in hell this would fly.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Could that site by any harder to read?

Wah wah to the BH. Sounds like the totality of their complaint is that they weren't involved in a spoon-fed news event. Which means they weren't too good at reporting if they only way they can get the info is to have it spoon-fed to them. If everyone else was there, you'd think someone at the BH would have got wind of it, unless NE told everyone invited not to tell the BH.

 

[accguy]

For the record, it didn't say the paper wasn't putting information about Northeastern in the paper, they just weren't staffing games.

I don't know that I totally blame them. In a market where there are more stories than resources, wouldn't it make sense to go where people are a bit happier to see you?

 

[Mystery Meat II]

How the hell could they have not known? Even if only by a morning TV newscast mentioning the scheduled press conference. Somehow every other media outlet in Boston knows and nobody at the Herald can even get it third-hard? Really? That seems suspicious.

 

[Stitch]

For the record, it didn't say the paper wasn't putting information about Northeastern in the paper, they just weren't staffing games.

I don't know that I totally blame them. In a market where there are more stories than resources, wouldn't it make sense to go where people are a bit happier to see you?

It is a boycott in the sense that the Herald won't run anything that's not spoon-fed to it.

 

[anonymousprick]

So many quality reporters and editors out there looking for work, and yet, the guy who goes onto a college newspaper site, rants like a fanboi in the comment section, signs his name and title, and then misspells the "sports" in "sports copy editor" is still employed ...

 

[Ice9]

http://www.huntington-news.com/news/boston-herald-boycotts-huskies-1.2159653

A boycott like this seems silly. Shouldn't the beat writers have known about the presser?

Neither Boston paper has a writer specifically assigned to cover NU, but I think I know what you meant. The Herald's gripe has more to do with the "print exclusive" mentioned in the article than the press conference.

 

[flexmaster33]

Why not send reporters to the game to throw their notebooks on the ground or fall on the court kicking and screaming. Silly. You miss the story, then complicate matters with a stupid decision such as this.

 

[BillyT]

It's not really a boycott, just a dumb decision to not cover games.

If they're having a great season, the stuff out to be in the paper.

And not getting invited to the presser?

Hell, a good reporter who was not at the presser could probably do an even better job than an average reporter who was.

It's not like they woke up the next day and saw it in the Globe.

 

[HejiraHenry]

This kind of thing happens maybe every 3 years or so somewhere around the country.

One of the Chattanooga papers froze out UT–Chattanooga for a short while once in the 80s (?).

But this is probably the biggest market where I can think of that happening.

And if, indeed, the underpinning is a political judgement on Northeastern's part, then the paper is in the right – and should begin targeting news-side resources to tearing down the Northeastern administration. That's the Chicago Obama way, after all.

 

[clutchcargo]

I, too, find it humorous that the Northeastern muckety-muck referred to the press conference announcing the demise of the football prorgam as a "success."

My guess is that the sour grapes came about when Boston Globe scooped the Herald on the news 2-3 days earlier. It's the old, "If we get beat on a story, we're going to pretend for a few days that it didn't happen."

 

[Boomer7]

I, too, find it humorous that the Northeastern muckety-muck referred to the press conference announcing the demise of the football prorgam as a "success."

My guess is that the sour grapes came about when Boston Globe scooped the Herald on the news 2-3 days earlier. It's the old, "If we get beat on a story, we're going to pretend for a few days that it didn't happen."

That's not what happened. Both the Globe and Herald had the story about the football program being eliminated on the same day. The story had already been reported by both outlets before the press conference.

 

[KP]

More people cared about the program getting cut than when it was actually around.

And why wait a week to hold a press conference. Nothing like waiting before explaining the decision and having to answer for your decisions.

 

[Ace]

More people cared about the program getting cut than when it was actually around.

And why wait a week to hold a press conference. Nothing like waiting before explaining the decision and having to answer for your decisions.

Oh yeah? Well the press conference happened to be a "fantastic success!"

 

[KP]

Does anyone have a link to this supposed print exclusive that Globe had on Nov. 15? I can't seem to find it on a boston.com search. And the players didn't know they were playing the program's last game when they took the field on the 21st. While they knew the ax was a real possibility, they didn't get official word until the evening of Nov. 22. The press release came at midnight Nov. 23. The Globe didn't even staff the final game at URI, one would think if they knew it was the final game they would have.

Something isn't adding up.