Image via WikipediaIf you're not a sports fan, seeing a good two-thirds of today's front page devoted to baseball, basketball and golf may make you wonder what you're missing -- and what The Record of Woodland Park missed. It's the second day in a row sports has eaten up a large part of Page 1.
The lead story on A-1 is about the continuing controversy over state aid to schools, but it's all downhill from there, and I'm not referring to skiing.
In Local, you won't find any news of Hackensack, Teaneck, Englewood or many other Bergen County towns. Yet on the Business page, you will find a second story about the new iPad. Wasn't the first enough free advertising?
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let me guess? you were that kid that was the last one picked for games. and now you resent anyone that appreciates sport's contribution to their lives.
ReplyDeleteYou're wrong. I was among the first: switch hitter in baseball, unmovable on the line in football.
ReplyDeleteAnyhow, that's why there is a Sports section, which is where 99% of the stuff belongs.
ReplyDeleteI was the kid who was the last one picked for games. And then I spent the first 10 years of my newspaper career in the sports department of the New York Post -- in the days of Milton Gross and Larry Merchant -- and the next five on the sports desk at the NY Daily News, working with such luminaries as Bill Gallo and Dick Young.
ReplyDeleteUnlike Victor, I believe sports has a place on the front page. Readers take their sports very seriously. Newspapers, however, don't take their sports departments very seriously, treating them as if they're the department of fun and games. There may be no cheering in the press box, but let David Wright strike out with the bases loaded and you could hear the groans on the far side of the newsroom at the Record.
Of course, if there were a monument park outside the PNC Bank Building in Woodland Park, no doubt a bust of Ian O'Connor would be in the works. And the way Stephen Borg puffs about Bob Klapisch you'd think Klap had a statue waiting for him at Cooperstown.
Sports is big business, and athletes like Tiger Woods transcend sports, as do events such as opening day for the Mets and Yankees. It just happened that these events collided, and all of them belonged out front, which no doubt crowded out other important news.
That said, Victor may trash certain personages at the Record, several of whom are richly deserving of the criticism, but he doesn't hide behind anonymity when taking pot shots like "You must have been the kid ..."
You're comments and perspective are always welcome, Aaron.
ReplyDeleteBetter cancel those plans for the bust of Ian O'Connor. He left for ESPN.
ReplyDeleteI guess you missed his masturbatory last column announcing just that.
ReplyDeleteAnd my post on the column, which praised the Borg family to the sky.
ReplyDeleteAaron, the Associated Press Sports Editors ranked O'Connor and Klapisch as the Nos. 1 and 2 columnists in the country in 2009.
ReplyDeleteYou mean the Associated Mess, don't you?
ReplyDeleteyou against the world victor.
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