Hat tip to Eric at Off Wing Opinion for his finding a New York print reporter explaining the absence of a hockey story recently in Newsday on a single day! Imagine if Washington’s newspapers had to offer similar explanations for the absence of hockey coverage in their respective papers — there’d be no room in the A sections for news coverage! Here’s what Newsday’s Greg Logan told that paper’s readers:
A WORD OF EXPLANATION TO THE READERS: Serious Islanders fans (Is there any other kind?) undoubtedly noticed there was no story in the print edition of Newsday this morning. This is the second time it’s happened in a couple of weeks, and the reason in both cases has to do strictly with the space available in the paper to handle major breaking news stories.
It is not a reflection of Newsday’s commitment to Islanders coverage. Today, the Gary Sheffield trade by the Yankees was major news, and previously the settlement between former Knicks coach Larry Brown and Madison Square Garden forced a decision at 11 p.m. when most of the section had been “put to bed” and couldn’t be changed.
In both cases, Newsday had backup writers at practice while I was off or was working on another Islanders assignment, and both stories moved over to our Web site, which is where Isles fans should go if no story appears in print. Also, because their schedule has five straight days without a game and no practice was scheduled Saturday and Sunday, no Islanders story is planned for Monday’s paper. When practice resumes Monday, we will have a writer there, and of course, we are the only newspaper traveling to every road game.”
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