Soccer Fans, The Los Angeles Times Has Your Wire Service Copy Right Here
The United States faces a do-or-die game this morning at the World Cup, and Southern California’s newspaper of record offers local fans … a wire service preview.
Of course, the LAT also did this on Saturday before the Italy game. And then their staffer wrote an insipid piece seemingly lifted from quote sheets that ignored the U.S. team’s stirring effort.
The Times has offered an acceptable daily overview of the World Cup, but their coverage of the U.S. team has been practically nonexistent. Just like the Dodgers and the Lakers, Bruce Arena’s men are the hometown team. American papers should cover the American team. That’s something the Washington Post, New York Times, and USA Today understand — all have bylined stories about tomorrow’s game, as does ESPN. The UK’s Guardian and BBC also expended more effort than one of this country’s largest metro dailies.
The Times should read the Neilsens — last weekend’s U.S. Open drew a smaller TV audience (5.1 national rating) than U.S. - Italy (5.2). But we’ll start getting wire service stories on golf tournaments when sportswriters and editors stop playing golf.
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LAT soccer writer Grahame Jones can write … about Germany!
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