tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709439985960510321.post7150521573479628210..comments2024-02-23T04:23:39.577-06:00Comments on Preds On The Glass: Calling Out The TennesseanPredsOnTheGlasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09794036277653547935noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709439985960510321.post-63470536729947527052010-10-26T22:03:18.080-05:002010-10-26T22:03:18.080-05:00For what it's worth, they don't send anyon...For what it's worth, they don't send anyone on most away games for Vandy men's basketball, which is the school's most popular team.<br /><br />It's a sad state of affairs over there and has been for some time. I wish they could have a stringer for the majority of road games -- someone local in some of these cities they could pay $250-500 for articles/coverage. Would eliminate >50% of the total costs.<br /><br />Every day I wake up and talk myself out of canceling my subscription. Not sure how much longer I can do it.atty123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709439985960510321.post-54673031240853184912010-10-25T22:48:26.056-05:002010-10-25T22:48:26.056-05:00Thanks for the comments guys. When I stopped over ...Thanks for the comments guys. When I stopped over in Denver last week, I picked up a copy of the Post and hockey was on Page two, but it was the whole page with Dater's extensive coverage of the Avs, complete NHL coverage and even some college hockey spilling over to page three. An AP story on page 2 and a warmed over business story just doesn't get it after the Preds soar to number one in the league.PredsOnTheGlasshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09794036277653547935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709439985960510321.post-24249502080752223702010-10-25T14:04:17.051-05:002010-10-25T14:04:17.051-05:00That was sort of a half-formed (or at least half-e...That was sort of a half-formed (or at least half-explained) thought on my part, 111. <br /><br />What I meant about "length of the season" there was that because the NFL (and college football) are shorter, each game is necessarily more important. <br /><br />While certainly the depth of coverage could be better from 1100 - regardless of 16- or 82-game season - the breadth is always going to be wall-to-wall for each Titans game, because football games are of such concentrated importance to the ultimate result of the season.<br /><br />Again, I agree, that if they are purporting to be <i>the</i> daily, local news source, then they need to be that. Certainly, even if they weren't going to send Josh on the road this weekend, a story about a 5-0-3 start and back-to-back road wins for a team racked with injury, makes a better front page story than something about how a team from another state is tops in the second (completely irrelevant) BCS rankings.J. R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06649501741190838529noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709439985960510321.post-67545871006122952972010-10-25T13:50:06.175-05:002010-10-25T13:50:06.175-05:00This is the difference between "major league&...This is the difference between "major league" and "minor league" as far as the paper goes. The Tennessean has proven itself time and again to be "minor league" when it comes to covering the Predators. That is their decision, but no one at 1100 should be surprised at the declining number of subscribers. If the paper wants to promote itself as being a first class publication- a "major league" newspaper, if you will- then their coverage should reflect that attribute. Obviously, it does not. I appreciate J.R.'s point about the length of the season, but so what? If you are going to tout your publication as THE news source then you have to back it up. So far, the Tennessean has shown itself to be a half assed publication that covers the sports when it is convenient for them.The View from 111https://www.blogger.com/profile/01404928803945401527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5709439985960510321.post-6664581485136079872010-10-25T11:48:22.550-05:002010-10-25T11:48:22.550-05:00I don't work on the sports side of the house a...I don't work on the sports side of the house at SouthComm, so I don't presume to understand how those decisions are made over at 1100, but the fact is the sheer length of the hockey season makes things difficult on beat writers. <br />Here at the CP, David Boclair somehow manages to cover both the Preds and Titans (and travels with neither) in a feat of time management that probably needs to be explored by our best scientists.<br />The Tennessean, though, DOES have a larger staff than we do at the CP - and presumably a larger budget. You're right - they'd never, EVER fail to send somebody on the road with Vandy and the Titans, but those teams play only six and eight road games respectively and in Vandy's case, travel is rarely farther than, say, Lexington, Ky. or Baton Rouge. <br />I'm wholly unsurprised with the fact the sports front (and the regular front, for that matter) was dominated by Titans coverage, but the game is the game - each tilt in the NFL is necessarily more important than each one in hockey. I did find it curious they slotted in coverage of the BCS standings, which don't have any effect on any team in Tennessee, on the front of the sports section.<br />There are, no doubt, lots of Auburn fans here in Nashville (as an Alabama alum, I attract them like a magnet), but a paper purporting to be a local news source would have been better served by putting the Preds on the front.J. R.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06649501741190838529noreply@blogger.com