Football parent: But they try just as hard as everyone else!

[KYSportsWriter]

From the opinion section of the Bowling Green Daily News. :

Page 3 article for a team that is undefeated.

How do you explain that to the boys who practice every day to win these games?

They try just as hard with the same determination as the other teams you choose to put on the front page of the sports section. Warren East is a team of dedicated young men who deserve more than Page 3 recognition when they win.

Does it take a parent or two of a Warren East player on your staff to make a difference?

 

[wickedwritah]

This is the best thing we can do: Run these diatribes as Letters to the Editor, and let everyone else see what doucheboxes some of these parents are.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

Something the parent forgot to mention: Three teams the BG Daily News covers were playing at home. Warren East was on the road in Bardstown.

Gee, who do you think will get the most coverage that week?

 

[Barsuk]

It doesn't matter where they played KY. It only matters how hard they tried.

 

[mannheimadler]

I got an email from a lady today that made me scratch my head.

She was angry about the "coverage" of a game I didn't even cover. It was in a capsule at the end of the story I wrote. Apparently, because the capsule talked about the team that won, everyone at our paper is biased.

The funniest statement was this: "Did all of your sportswriters go to (Name removed) High School?"

Why was it funny?

The lady was a fan of the high school from which *I* graduated.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

It doesn't matter where they played KY. It only matters how hard they tried.

Of course. How stupid of me. :

 

[KYSportsWriter]

I got an email from a lady today that made me scratch my head.

She was angry about the "coverage" of a game I didn't even cover. It was in a capsule at the end of the story I wrote. Apparently, because the capsule talked about the team that won, everyone at our paper is biased.

The funniest statement was this: "Did all of your sportswriters go to (Name removed) High School?"

Why was it funny?

The lady was a fan of the high school from which *I* graduated.

Gotta love people like that. Since I started working at the paper I'm at, I've been viewed as a "traitor" by a select few people in my hometown because I don't work for the small weekly.

 

[hondo]

fork these parents. I try as hard as anyone to be Jim Murray. Doesn't mean I'm going to get an automatic book deal.

 

[Bubbler]

fork these parents. I try as hard as anyone to be Jim Murray. Doesn't mean I'm going to get an automatic book deal.

Hondo and I find common ground. Kumbaya and all that.

 

[Editude]

This is where the more-on-the-Web-site approach doesn't sit well. Some people still judge coverage by its prominence in the printed product.

 

[spnited]

Actual e-mail from opening night last week... in which Team A beat Team B, 40-14.

I take exception with Joe Writer's heading on S-11 "Team A sticks to
plan in win". It should read, "Team A Crushes Team B". If Team B
had won, that would have been the heading. Is Joe Writer an alumnus of Team B?

 

[GB-Hack]

Nah, if Joe Writer were an alumnus, the headline would have been "Team A Sticks It To Team B With A Rusty Scythe"