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Reading Your Local Paper
by Paul on 07/20/09 at 11:28 AM ET
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Do you pay for your local newspaper? Do you even visit their website?
When it comes to hockey coverage and the MSM, what is the future of their existence?
Check out Puck Daddy who points out a few stories that have hit the web today.
I for one, and I should know, have found the hockey news from the mainstream media has switched from standard stories on the web or local paper to blogs. The explosion of blogs from the MSM grew in numbers last season and I see the trend continuing in the future.
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Thanks for the link as always, Paul.
And I totally agree with you on the MSM blog front. Here in DC, the blogs were empowered, provided great coverage of the Capitals, and both the Post and Time responded with their own beat writer blogs, both of which are now very good. We haven’t seen the same thing happen in every NHL city, but it’s getting there (like in, of all places, Montreal, where Habs Inside/Out was a response to the Montreal blogosphere.)
Posted by Greg Wyshynski from Washington, DC on 07/20/09 at 12:02 PM ET
I read the AJC’s website, but only for odds and ends around town, as well as Thrashers hockey coverage and the blogs (beat blog and fan blog).
I also read the hometown website, Detroit Free Press. I keep up with most topics there, including the beloved Red Wings.
I don’t pay for either. I don’t really have time to sit and read the paper. The AJC, to be quite frank, isn’t really worth the paper it’s printed on.
Posted by Alan from Atlanta on 07/20/09 at 12:03 PM ET
I get my hockey news from the web. I occasionally visit the websites for my local newspapers if there is a really big story. I wouldn’t ever pay for the newspaper - haven’t in over ten years.
The only time hockey is going to show up in my paper is if Brian Rafalski, Adam Burish, or Phil Kessel do something awesome in the post season. Otherwise, the NHL is invisible.
Posted by jennyquarx on 07/20/09 at 12:12 PM ET
I spend my time monitoring the mainstream media for my “job,” but I would read the Free Press and News’s websites, at least, on a daily basis if I didn’t know a hockey puck from a hamburger patty.
I still believe that the newspapers who embrace “real-time updates” via blogs (the difference between a “blog” and “column” seems to involve nothing more than an irregular publishing time versus a standard daily publishing schedule these days) will survive and thrive as the internet starts to evolve into a Twitter-fest…And I think that cutting back on independent coverage of road games, if not eliminating the coverage of road games altogether, is a big mistake, access to AP/CP pool reports included, because there’s something to be said for consistency of perspective and maintaining the relationships beat reporters have with certain players and coaches.
Posted by George Malik from South Lyon, MI on 07/20/09 at 12:38 PM ET
I buy a newspaper almost every day, but not for the hockey content. Ironically it’s the smaller papers around here that have the best hockey blogs.
Posted by K24 from NYC on 07/20/09 at 06:19 PM ET
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