Greg Wyshynski says the league should just bribe them:
Start with paying for media charter flights, and then go 10 steps further and turn the Stanley Cup Finals into an all-out Hollywood-style press junket.Do you think entertainment reporters seriously want to write about the latest Tim Allen film? Do you think there's an audience clamoring for coverage of the live-action "Underdog: The Movie?" Of course not. But the slickest marketing minds in the business get positive coverage for their products by hopelessly pandering to the media
It’s funny that TK has been on an “anti-hockey” roll, since he was criticial of his own newspaper for not sending a reporter to cover the finals.
You and me both, Eric. You and me both.
Never … never have I been so riled up and ready to hurt something in response to hockey-bashing than I was when Kornheiser just went to [expletive] town on the sport the other day. Just … God, it was ridiculous.
Funny you should mention not Tivo’ing PTI anymore. I stopped about two weeks ago after I too tired of the constant and repetitive refrains of “no one cares, no one’s watching, what a joke!” It just got old. I like TK, but too often he takes one angle on things and sticks with it at the expense of providing better perspective (i.e. ‘if they had just stopped Nash’s cut from bleeding…’)
The truth is, very few people in the US watched, or cared about, a very entertaining series (in my opinion–I thought the hockey was very good). Why is that? That’s what the NHL needs to do a better job of answering.
I feel compelled to note that many newspapers won’t let their reporters take advantage of such things! I once got a simple leather-bound notebook — went right back in the box and back to the mailroom.
Incidentally, Eric, your Facebook widget at left says you’re at the DC United match. It’s 8:15 Monday morning. You must be having a great time.