Comments on: Telling, Isn't It?

By: Chris Green

Chris Green — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:58:54 +0000

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.

By: James Mirtle

James Mirtle — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:05:24 +0000

I’m with Steinberg!

By: amy

amy — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:17:12 +0000

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

By: maruk

maruk — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:17:41 +0000

but hey, it’s only f’ing hockey.

By: P-Mac

P-Mac — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:46:43 +0000

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?)

By: Dan Steinberg

Dan Steinberg — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:35:45 +0000

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.

By: pucksandbooks

pucksandbooks — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:26:02 +0000

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

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:04:45 +0000

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.

By: odessasteps

odessasteps — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 02:41:07 +0000

at least it made PTI.