Has anyone read the ny times as rice on th minnesota game? It essentially says Minnesota lost because their reserve guard was suspended for a domestic violence offense. The whole article seemed to be about him with lititle ink devoted to the game or st johns. Oh yes somewhere in the middle he notes we were a bit shorthanded too as two players were lost due to eligibility issues. I guess it was too much to write about the game and St johns comeback. Maybe he went to syracuse. I suppose if we beat Gonzaga there will be a story on salmon
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That's exactly why no one reads that rag. They only print their own "agenda" news.
Dave Anderson, George Vescey, Harvey Araton, Bill Pennington, Richard Sandamir are all exceptional writers. They don't go for sensational absurd headlines like the tabloids do. When we had our Mullin era great teams, the NYT gave us plenty of ink and their articles were much better than the pablum that was in the NYDN and NYP. I've said that if you want to get in depth coverage of important stories the paper does it better than most. Their coverage of 09/11 and the Boston Marathon bombing was superb; the series of articles on every single person who perished was journalism at its best. The profiles they did of all the city firefighters was great. The veiled comments on here were less than what SJU stands for.
Some of my friends back in the days of the "red scares" used to call it "All the news that's fit to tint". In reality, their sports section is top shelf. Maybe the reporter had his angle and his story written before the outcome...then updated or tweeked it to justify his copy. Deadlines are deadlines and this was needed for the early edition. Papers like USA Today didn't even have the score.
They do two or three pieces on SJU hoops a year. The sports coverage is much different than 20 years ago when they focused on NY sports teams, athletes and horses. They now do more national and international coverage. They sort of remind me of the print version of the old "Wide World of Sports" on ABC.
Maybe the problem is that for some time now St John's men's basketball has made itself largely irrelevant. We don't get articles because we are not involved in events that are important to people, ie news. We could fix that by fixing the program. If we were a top 25 program every year, guaranteed we'd be written about frequently in the NYT.
They did a puff piece on Lavin and his dad a few weeks ago, so you can't say they ignore sju hoops. Until our games matter, they won't cover each game.
Second, I wouldn't have published the officer's street (which is what they did, not his address), but the truth is its been public knowledge since August when the Washington Post published it. Still, a mistake in my eyes.
But if the Times editorial board were as liberal as some of you suggest, this country would have been out of Iraq a half decade earlier, if we went at all. The NYT was overly differential to Bush his first three years, not scrutinizing the Iraq evidence, and sitting on the NSA-eavesdropping story for 13 months because the Pentagon asked them to.
If anything, the Times hasn't been progressive enough.
A real liberal editorial board also wouldn't have thought twice about endorsing Teachout over Cuomo.
Second, I wouldn't have published the officer's street (which is what they did, not his address), but the truth is its been public knowledge since August when the Washington Post published it. Still, a mistake in my eyes.
But if the Times editorial board were as liberal as some of you suggest, this country would have been out of Iraq a half decade earlier, if we went at all. The NYT was overly differential to Bush his first three years, not scrutinizing the Iraq evidence, and sitting on the NSA-eavesdropping story for 13 months because the Pentagon asked them to.
If anything, the Times hasn't been progressive enough.
A real liberal editorial board also wouldn't have thought twice about endorsing Teachout over Cuomo.