When you were in high school ...

... did you think the local newspaper covered the area fairly?

I went to a small private school within the city limits, one of two such schools in the city of four high schools. I recall regarding it as a fact of life that we weren't going to get covered like the bigger public schools did.

They probably sent a reporter and photographer to our school three times a year -- for the season preview, for our rivalry game with the other private school and maybe a district game or something. All other times, they'd run a roundup, and I thought it was pretty sweet when my name appeared in that roundup.

That said, I don't recall anybody complaining, really. I think we all understood that this wasn't a big newspaper and that there was much more interest in the bigger schools.

The only time I ever complained was when, in a basketball gamer, they called our coach and two players by completely wrong names. I personally e-mailed the editor. His reply was short and apologetic.

 

I had better things to do in high school than pay attention to the newspaper industry.

 

no you didn't.

 

I don't now, but I did then.

 

seriously?



edit: just poking you with a stick, by the way, pall ... you know I've got nothin but love.

 

I felt our newspaper covered all the local teams quite well.

Then again, I was writing for it at the time.

 

Seriously what? I didn't care about the local newspaper -- or any newspaper, for that matter -- when I was in high school.

 

Lived in a metro area with 30 other high schools. Coverage was centered towards the schools on the other side of town, but those schools took home the titles. The guys I went to school with didn't work as hard, obviously.

 

Can't for the life of me remember a single time playing ball in high school where I -- or my coaches or anyone related to the team -- expressed the thought that the newspaper wasn't giving us enough coverage.

I will say this: I looked forward to the high school roundups and seeing my name in the box scores a lot more than thinking about whether a writer had been there to cover it.

 

I went to a small school in a big city. The one or two times the big local daily covered one of our football games, or someone got named to an all-metro team, it was pretty cool. But the lack of it wasn't really something anyone complained about.

 

On the other hand, I looked forward to the high school roundups and hoped I'd be seeing my name in the box scores. Never did.

I never felt that my school was slighted and that other schools were covered more. But then again, at that point, I couldn't tell you who the other schools were and what they were good at. I just showed up for the games.

 

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