>At 12:45 AM 12/11/94 -0500, Patrick L. Blake wrote:
>
>>I bought the paper today and was hoping to see something relating to the
>>weekend games of Dec. 3+4 with BU at UMaine. There was nothing! The only
>>mention was that of a score of the Friday night game. Of course, there were
>>     recaps of many other Hockey East matchups from Friday night, but
>>absolutely NO mention of BU and UMaine. I know this is not normal, and was
>>wondering if anyone on hockey-l might be able to provide me with a clue as to
>>why this is.
>>
>>I wonder if the lack of coverage was due to BU's performance or merely the
>>Boston area media's hatred toward UMaine.
>>
>
>Look... this is getting ridiculous. I know I'm responding to more than Mr.
>Blake's comments here, but the number of messages bashing other HE schools
>and Boston area media for a supposed bias against Maine are getting
>downright silly and I'd like to ask people to just cut it out, please.
>
>Like any other newspaper, when it comes to marginal sports news like
>college hockey, the Globe will basically look at two criteria: 1) proximity
>2) newsworthiness (which in this case equals # of wins).
 
Actually, Mr. Blake said he was reading the Globe that he bought in
*Florida*. That means it was a first edition of the Sunday paper. Those
come out late Saturday night. His paper was printed before the game story
was in. Trust me on this one. No conspiracy. No "marginal sports" being
pushed off the page. Had he been in Gr. Boston and able to buy the fifth
edition the locals get--or probably even the second or third--he would've
seen the game story he was looking for. My advice is to go to the same
newsstand for the Monday paper. The Globe sometimes runs stuff from the
weekend that didn't make it into the Sunday first editions.
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