Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
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Spread The Wings
Member since 2008
Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
It was bad enough when the Post and Sun-Sentinel (mostly the Post) did their best to ignore FAU sports. The Sun-Sentinel (at least Ted Hutton) has been much more astute at covering FAU in recent years, but the printed S-S still doesn't do enough.
Now, with the competing newspapers selling out and simply becoming carbon copies of themselves, FAU is getting even more short thrift!
Case in point: Sunday's post sports section offered just one FAU story, and that was on page 9 following numerous pages of Miami, Florida, Florida State and even out-of-state game stories. Bad, huh? But even worse, the story was written by Sun-Sentinel writer Hutton!
The Palm Beach Post - arguably the metro area's largest, best read and most successful newspaper - did not spend one ounce of effort to cover an important out-of-conference football game - with lots of interesting angles, especially afterward - by the metro area's only major college division (any division) football program. Nothing. Nada!
The Post just picked up the Sun-Sentinel's coverage.
It was a poor financial and journalistic decision. And slap to FAU's collective face.
It's a disgrace. Shame on the Post, really. It's not like this was some Tuesday night baseball game at South Alabama or something.
I am going to make my feelings about this unbalanced, chintzy coverage to both the sports and main editors, as well as the publisher. I'll post a list of contacts soon so, hopefully, any of you can do the same.
I am also not going to renew my Post subscription, and I will let the sales rep know why (as if that will make any difference). But maybe if we all did that - and all make a conscious effort to avoid Post advertisers, or even tell Post advertisers that and why we no longer read or support that paper - we might make a dent here.
Enough is enough.
Your thoughts?
Posted
Spread The Wings
Member since 2008
Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
It was bad enough when the Post and Sun-Sentinel (mostly the Post) did their best to ignore FAU sports. The Sun-Sentinel (at least Ted Hutton) has been much more astute at covering FAU in recent years, but the printed S-S still doesn't do enough.
Now, with the competing newspapers selling out and simply becoming carbon copies of themselves, FAU is getting even more short thrift!
Case in point: Sunday's post sports section offered just one FAU story, and that was on page 9 following numerous pages of Miami, Florida, Florida State and even out-of-state game stories. Bad, huh? But even worse, the story was written by Sun-Sentinel writer Hutton!
The Palm Beach Post - arguably the metro area's largest, best read and most successful newspaper - did not spend one ounce of effort to cover an important out-of-conference football game - with lots of interesting angles, especially afterward - by the metro area's only major college division (any division) football program. Nothing. Nada!
The Post just picked up the Sun-Sentinel's coverage.
It was a poor financial and journalistic decision. And slap to FAU's collective face.
It's a disgrace. Shame on the Post, really. It's not like this was some Tuesday night baseball game at South Alabama or something.
I am going to make my feelings about this unbalanced, chintzy coverage to both the sports and main editors, as well as the publisher. I'll post a list of contacts soon so, hopefully, any of you can do the same.
I am also not going to renew my Post subscription, and I will let the sales rep know why (as if that will make any difference). But maybe if we all did that - and all make a conscious effort to avoid Post advertisers, or even tell Post advertisers that and why we no longer read or support that paper - we might make a dent here.
Enough is enough.
Your thoughts?
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VIP DONOR
Member since 2007
Re: Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
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Wise Owl
Member since 2009
Re: Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
Fewer people are subscribing to newspapers to help conserve money. When circulation #'s go down, a newspaper's ad rates go down. When ad rates go down, newspapers make cutbacks, including a reduction in staffing. Therefore, newspapers are relying more on AP and shared news coverage. Which means the "less important" stories will go unwritten.
However, I think Ted's SS blog does an excellent job. PBP blog is lacking. But no more than the Miami Herald's blog on FIU.
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Wise Owl
Member since 2009
Re: Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
Fewer people are subscribing to newspapers to help conserve money. When circulation #'s go down, a newspaper's ad rates go down. When ad rates go down, newspapers make cutbacks, including a reduction in staffing. Therefore, newspapers are relying more on AP and shared news coverage. Which means the "less important" stories will go unwritten.
However, I think Ted's SS blog does an excellent job. PBP blog is lacking. But no more than the Miami Herald's blog on FIU.
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VIP DONOR
Member since 2006
Re: Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
Teambeer is the most knowledgeable FAU sports fan I know, way smarter than me.
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VIP DONOR
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Re: Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
Teambeer is the most knowledgeable FAU sports fan I know, way smarter than me.
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Wise Owl
Member since 2006
Re: Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
Is there even a beat reporter for fau for the post?
My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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Wise Owl
Member since 2006
Re: Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
Is there even a beat reporter for fau for the post?
My two favorite teams are FAU, and who ever is beating FIU!
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VIP DONOR
Member since 2007
Re: Palm Beach Post's FAU Coverage = FAIL!
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