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Telling, Isn't It?

By The OFB Team 13 January, 2008

Print NewsEarly this weekend I told the OFB team to more or less take Sunday off, as we’d need the space to provide links to the voluminous local column coverage of the richest athlete contract in Washington sports history. While our local MSM columnists don’t quite fancy hockey as a subject matter, in the sense that there hasn’t been one from them in this millennium, I knew that this time it’d be different. After all, this was history made by the Caps this week.
So here’s the tally:
Today, in WaPost, a deeply buried drive-by by George Solomon — you actually have to click on the weekly column’s third page to find the lone paragraph devoted to it;
And yesterday Thom Loverro’s superb piece in the Washington Times.
That’s the three-day, week-concluding summary of commentary on the history made by the Caps this week.

This was written by The OFB Team. Posted on at 3:42 pm. Filed under Print, Washington Post, Washington Times.
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9 Comments

  1. odessasteps wrote:

    at least it made PTI.

    13 January, 2008 at 10:41 pm | Permalink
  2. Richard wrote:

    I take your point that hockey is poorly covered in this town. But, in fact, the Post had more on the Ovechkin’s signing than your brief list suggests – Tarik El-Bashir covered this in a number of posts on his washingtonpost.com blog.

    14 January, 2008 at 9:04 am | Permalink
  3. pucksandbooks wrote:

    Though you didn’t intend to, Richard, you actually amplified my point. My beef was/is with the MSM, not new media.

    14 January, 2008 at 12:26 pm | Permalink
  4. Dan Steinberg wrote:

    It’s because we all love hockey bloggers who feed on msm-hate, and we want to do our best to provide them ample material, so that they don’t have to resort to long essays about public transportation.
    Oh, whoops.

    14 January, 2008 at 1:35 pm | Permalink
  5. P-Mac wrote:

    I thought 124 million bucks would have been a big enough to suck up the main headline on all the /nhl pages of the usual suspects (espn.com, si.com, etc.). Instead, after making the article lists on the main pages of those sites, it was quickly buried.
    Almost comically, ala the same treatment given the Rory Fitzpatrick ballot-stuffing last year.
    (P.S. Who still drinks PTI? I made it until about last month before I had enough of their empty arguments. “I like this team, Tony.” What does that even mean, man?)

    14 January, 2008 at 3:46 pm | Permalink
  6. maruk wrote:

    but hey, it’s only f’ing hockey.

    14 January, 2008 at 4:17 pm | Permalink
  7. amy wrote:

    Sorry pucksandbooks, but that comment by Dan just made me laugh outloud!

    15 January, 2008 at 1:17 am | Permalink
  8. James Mirtle wrote:

    I’m with Steinberg!

    15 January, 2008 at 3:05 am | Permalink
  9. Chris Green wrote:

    If the WaPo thinks hockey isn’t worth it’s ink why waste electrons and dollars on talking about them or buying their product?
    They cannot control how you think, but they do like to influence what you think about… and that isn’t hockey….
    They are dying beasts in the old print MSM version of the LaBrea tar pits…
    The Washington Times gets it… We are in control of our own minds… are darn, I like reading about my favorite team…. duh.

    15 January, 2008 at 4:58 am | Permalink

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