Sid Whitaker writes:
>First of all, there was a big story on the Mass-Lowell victory over BU in
>Thursday's paper. I know Joe Concannon, I saw him at the game, and I saw him
>file his story. It was a 900-word story, about 3 pages into the sports
>section.
 
900 words?  I hope you didn't count them all. :-)
 
>The Herald has a smaller reporting pool than the Globe, so they rely more on
>wire stories for games played outside of Boston.
 
I have also noticed that at games played outside of Boston, there is a
much better chance that there will be a Globe reporter there than a
Herald reporter (when a Boston team is playing).  This must be why.
 
>In this case, the 3 stars
>designates the earliest edition of the Herald, so the paper you saw went to
>bed at about 12am. The wire story on the game probably didn't move until then,
>and even if it did, the Herald's deadline was 11pm for the early edition.
>I suspect there was a story (at the very least, the score) in later editions
>of the Herald.
 
And isn't the Globe's 1st edition deadline even earlier?  I seem to
remember that when HE moved up its home game starting times to 7:00
back around 1987, one of the big reasons was publicity.  Starting
earlier means ending earlier, and HE wanted to be able to hit the
first editions of the Boston papers with its teams' scores and game
stories.  I always considered that to be a great marketing decision.
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Mike Machnik                                          [log in to unmask]
Cabletron Systems, Inc.                                  *HMM* 11/13/93
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