November 15, 2006
Long Island's Newspaper Disses Long Island's Only Professional Team
Here's an amazing admission from Greg Logan, Newsday's Islanders beat writer, that appeared earlier this week at his blog, On The Islanders Beat:
A WORD OF EXPLANATION TO THE READERS: Serious Islanders fans (Is there any other kind?) undoubtedly noticed there was no story in the print edition of Newsday this morning. This is the second time it’s happened in a couple of weeks, and the reason in both cases has to do strictly with the space available in the paper to handle major breaking news stories.
It is not a reflection of Newsday’s commitment to Islanders coverage. Today, the Gary Sheffield trade by the Yankees was major news, and previously the settlement between former Knicks coach Larry Brown and Madison Square Garden forced a decision at 11 p.m. when most of the section had been “put to bed” and couldn’t be changed.
First off, credit goes to Logan and Newsday for being so candid about why the coverage disappeared from the paper. But what astounds me is that Newsday, which has billed itself as Long Island's hometown newspaper since before I was slinging it onto stoops on my paper route back in the early 1980s, would drop coverage from the paper of Long Island's only professional sports franchise.
If this is the case, things are worse for the Islanders in terms of local support than some folks are admitting publicly.
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