Notice a few problems with this page?

Even more white space in that second one.

 

Wow, what a major fuckup.

 

I have no idea how many of these (if any) made print, but this is the page you get on its Web site.

 

A bigger question:
Why is the Virginian-Pilot centerpiecing the NBA Finals right up against deadline with an AP story when they have a staff story on a Virginia guy winning his first NASCAR race, in the afternoon, with plenty of time to give it good treatment?
Not only bad execution, very bad news judgment from a paper with a very good reputation.

 

Good point. Is the Dallas-Miami Finals really dwarfing everything else in Virginia these days?

 

Wow. Wonder if the Pilot will need new copy editors soon? And new writers, if some writers volunteer for desk duty?
(I'll say it myself... YOU'RE HIRED!

Good point on the NASCAR story. That would have been front and center for me. Screw the NBA.

 

Agreed that the race should have been the main story, but it is an AP story and not a staff story.

 

I sit corrected OD...misread the byline.
Still a better CP for a Virgnia paper

 

Are you all sure that this is the actual sports front that made it to print?

Find it pretty hard to believe that something like this could have actually made it out the door. Would have had to require a breakdown by a number of different people.

 

Because it's the SPORTS section. They want to play up the competitions that actually involve, get this, athletic abilities. News judgment made perfect sense to me.

Also, how bad has it gotten that the Pilot is using AP for the NBA finals. Why aren't they staffing it?

 

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All right, douchebag...the last thing I am is a NASCAR fan. But if you don't think it takes athletic ability to drive those things for 3-to-4 hours at 200 mph you're an even bigger ass than I thought.
If you had any clue, you'd also know NASCAR is very big in Va., so a "local" rookie winning is a damn big story.
And why the hell would the Pilot --a 185-200K paper in a market that does not have a truly local  NBA franchise -- staff cover the NBA finals?

Please crawl back under the rock from which you emerged.