Worst World Cup Newspaper Coverage

[Soccer Bob]

This should make for a good place for U.S. fans to unload on their local paper.

My front runner right now is The Star Ledger World Cup Preview pullout section. A bare list of team rosters, along with bare facts about the country and most importantly: where you can get that nation's food in New Jersey!

Example, Italy "The Country" is one inch, one column wide. "The Food" is four inches, three columns wide. "For A Taste" is two inches three columns wide. And "The Team" is four inches, 1 column wide!

And they wonder why the nation is fat!

[Holla at ya boy]

I have only seen the preview in magazines like SI, ESPN, and world soccer

[goliath74]

I have only seen the preview in magazines like SI, ESPN, and world soccer

Of the three major South Florida papers, The Palm Beach Post had the most comprehensive coverage with a special section explaining every team, their chances, times, groups, etc.

Miami Herald had a decent section of its own but much less team-by-team coverage.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Ft. lauderdale newspaper) had two pages. That's it! And even those were centered around US hopes and dreams.

[Knave]

I'm moving this to the B&M board. Might want to check out this thread (http://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showthread.php?t=363314) on this topic too.

[GutBomb]

i think that is actually a good idea... gets people more interested in a topic they aren't really interested in via a link to a topic they actually are interested in.

[monster]

Why are people worried about the paper with the worst coverage instead of the paper with the best coverage?

You guys keep reading the idgits. I'm too busy with all the good stuff being cranked out.

[Robert Lanza]

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel (Ft. lauderdale newspaper) had two pages. That's it! And even those were centered around US hopes and dreams.

Check out tomorrow's Sun-Sentinel (Wednesday). They've been plugging it for a week. It's a four-page wrap-around preview in the Sports section.

[GersMan]

Considering many of these publications are getting their info from the web, best to remember that in the U.S. especially, soccer is an Internet media game.

[lucky13dad]

I submit the following, errr, "gem" from Kent McDill (fondly known as "McPickle" in BS circles) of the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago: http://www.dailyherald.com/search/searchstory.asp?id=196857

As if we don't spend enough time fighting the stereotype(s) of the geographically and culturally inept American, he writes that when not cheering the U.S., he will root for the Netherlands at the WC because he " ...did not know that the Netherlands is basically Holland...". He adds "I then learned that Holland, or the Netherlands, is not part of Scandinavia, and I would have put money on that! I know now that Norway, Finland and Sweden are Scandinavian while Holland (the Netherlands, darn it) is European. Denmark, I still have no clue. Look at a map. It’s confusing."

Had enough? Here's the kicker: because of his challenged geography and "...because it is ranked second in the world...I predict the Netherlands will win the 2006 World Cup." Since when did the Netherlands and the Czech Republic merge?

[SoccerNova2009]

Dallas Morning News has OK coverage , they are highlighting a group a day and giving info on each team. But it is completely getting drowned out by the Dallas Mavericks NBA title run. Have the NBA finals always run into June?!? So I don't expect much World Cup notice until the NBA is over. Come on Mavs win 4-0!!!

[Beau Dure]

This should make for a good place for U.S. fans to unload on their local paper.

My front runner right now is The Star Ledger World Cup Preview pullout section. A bare list of team rosters, along with bare facts about the country and most importantly: where you can get that nation's food in New Jersey!

Example, Italy "The Country" is one inch, one column wide. "The Food" is four inches, three columns wide. "For A Taste" is two inches three columns wide. And "The Team" is four inches, 1 column wide!

And they wonder why the nation is fat!

Somewhere, this post is going up on a newspaper editor's bulletin board as proof that you simply can't please soccer fans.

[kenntomasch]

I submit the following, errr, "gem" from Kent McDill (fondly known as "McPickle" in BS circles) of the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago: http://www.dailyherald.com/search/searchstory.asp?id=196857

As if we don't spend enough time fighting the stereotype(s) of the geographically and culturally inept American, he writes that when not cheering the U.S., he will root for the Netherlands at the WC because he " ...did not know that the Netherlands is basically Holland...".

Absent that day in 7th grade.

He adds "I then learned that Holland, or the Netherlands, is not part of Scandinavia, and I would have put money on that! I know now that Norway, Finland and Sweden are Scandinavian while Holland (the Netherlands, darn it) is European. Denmark, I still have no clue. Look at a map. It’s confusing."

Yes, it's confusing. For anyone under the age of about 12.

Had enough? Here's the kicker: because of his challenged geography and "...because it is ranked second in the world...I predict the Netherlands will win the 2006 World Cup." Since when did the Netherlands and the Czech Republic merge?

They thought they'd have a hell of a team that way.

I think either Serbia or Montenegro (neither one is in Scandinavia, BTW, Kent) tried to get in on the merger, but they couldn't pull it off.

[PhilipReed]

Re Zico3KBattery #10:

Exhibit A for the thesis that being a soccer fan in the US means nothing's ever going to please you.

So the DaMN gave good World Cup coverage, but they didn't bump it to above the local NBA team competing for the first time ever for the NBA title? Woe! Woe! How can you ever live in such a backwater? You should just pick up and move to Liverpool or São Paulo right now so you don't have to deal with these cretins.

[TOTC]

This should make for a good place for U.S. fans to unload on their local paper.

My front runner right now is The Star Ledger World Cup Preview pullout section. A bare list of team rosters, along with bare facts about the country and most importantly: where you can get that nation's food in New Jersey!

Example, Italy "The Country" is one inch, one column wide. "The Food" is four inches, three columns wide. "For A Taste" is two inches three columns wide. And "The Team" is four inches, 1 column wide!

And they wonder why the nation is fat!

What do you expect from the Newhouse Evil Empire? Old Si Newhouse is worth $8 billion with no shareholders to answer to, and he basically closes down the Trenton Times -- no ad staff, no pre-press, no printing, no editing staff, no State House bureau. A skeleton crew run from Newark.

/rant

[geordienation]

What do you expect from the Newhouse Evil Empire? Old Si Newhouse is worth $8 billion with no shareholders to answer to, and he basically closes down the Trenton Times -- no ad staff, no pre-press, no printing, no editing staff, no State House bureau. A skeleton crew run from Newark.

/rant


Yeah, but it should be noted that Newhouse has poured money into a lot of its other papers over the last 10-15 years. Trenton is the exception, not the rule.

[scaryice]

Why are people worried about the paper with the worst coverage instead of the paper with the best coverage?

You guys keep reading the idgits. I'm too busy with all the good stuff being cranked out.

Decent coverage is expected. There's less reason to talk about a newspaper's coverage if it's decent. If you can't understand why this is a topic of discussion on a soccer message board, then I guess you're doomed to make the exact same post 500 more times (you're already about halfway there).

[scaryice]

Re Zico3KBattery #10:

Exhibit A for the thesis that being a soccer fan in the US means nothing's ever going to please you.

He wasn't complaining, but rather just stating a fact. Read his post again.

[PhilipReed]

You're right, I've become hypersensitized to hypersensitivity.