Comments on: Softer Spoken Than Nick Backstrom: the Washington MSM on a Big Hockey Signing Day

By: dwfma. » castoffs, outlaws, malcontents.

dwfma. » castoffs, outlaws, malcontents. — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 23:34:10 +0000

By: maruk

maruk — Wed, 23 May 2007 16:15:47 +0000

Right on, pepper.

By: pepper

pepper — Wed, 23 May 2007 08:26:14 +0000

I’m generally with Bobby “oor” – who needs those that won’t cover the sport. We can’t force them except by not watching.
Granted I’m now “out of market” and so I imagine I’d be more upset if I were living in the DC area (and its worse than it was when I lived there several years ago), but all of the official website’s coverage, Canadian media, this blog, and others (Caps and non-Caps) with notable coverage, give me most everything I want to know about the Caps and the NHL.
Half of you guys travelled with team officials to Moscow (!) and that’s better than any other MSM outlet has to show for itself, so why bother focusing on it? They wouldn’t even expense Tarik for a cross-country trip much less a half-way-around-the-world trip, and that’s not going to change in the face of burgeoning alternative media and declining numbers of newspaper subscribers. Why was Washington Post Live conceived anyway? To try and extract some value from cable programmers for the Washington Post name perhaps? Good luck with that! What kind of advertisers pay for that show?
For Tarik’s part, its clear that he’s a hockey fan, and so makes time to foster discussion, but also has to earn a living and raise a family, and his job requires him to cover such things as car races and golf which are deemed by his superiors to be far more important.
Better to just focus on Lindsay (!) and the Bears for now.

By: littles

littles — Wed, 23 May 2007 04:25:48 +0000

Um, I’m pretty sure I know where the video from Moscow came from.
Why else would I be here?

By: usiel

usiel — Wed, 23 May 2007 02:38:09 +0000

Lindsay Czarniak is so money. Backstrom who?

By: chanuck

chanuck — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:47:38 +0000

I personally gave up on the Washington Post. The Sports editor is a tool and will never give hockey any love. I get more than enough info from you and other bloggers. If the WP doesn’t care about what I like, I will take my business elsewhere.

By: Empty Maybe

Empty Maybe — Wed, 23 May 2007 01:25:14 +0000

littles, where do you think they got the video from?

By: littles

littles — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:51:43 +0000

I’d also add that WPL ran a good amount of the video coverage from Moscow including the interviews with Ovi, Backstrom, and Mike O’Sullivan.
Must have missed that too, huh?

By: littles

littles — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:46:46 +0000

Wow, you tell me who talks more hockey than WPL in the area and I will give you a cookie.
I’d say the fact that Capitals Beat Writer Tarik El Bashir was on the show just one day after the news broke that Backstrom would indeed be ‘Coming to Amercia’ next season is a pretty good indication that the sdhow is giving hockey it’s due, but to each his own.
I hope you enjoy the five total minutes that WRC will devote to hockey for the next five months.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Tue, 22 May 2007 23:44:43 +0000

Agree with most of your post, but this Hershey Bears season ticket holder has definitely heard of Crystal Palace USA. Come on you, EAGLES. There still should have been more on the Backstrom signing in the paper of record for the DC area.