HockeyCam - Sun Investigative journalism?

After feeling depressed again about our lack of HockeyCam following the Colgate game (which was actually my first experience with a HockeyCam), I was wondering if some ex-Sun staffers could let me know why this issue wasn't worthy of some investigative journalism.

Wouldn't it have been a great story if an upper-classman actually commented that it stinks that his parents and friends back home can't watch him this year.

Wouldn't it have been even better if a freshman said that watching the games last year was able to give him more exposure to Cornell Hockey.

Do we know if anyone from the Sun even thought to go ask the team questions like this, or was this whole thing considered a total non-issue for people who could just go to the games if they cared enough?

Neil - Based on the letter I wrote, the sun was willing to run a guest editorial. However, I didn't have time at the time and let the matter drop. Why they couldn't use my letter as a starting point, I have no idea.

John E Hayes '98 '00 wrote:

Neil - Based on the letter I wrote, the sun was willing to run a guest editorial. However, I didn't have time at the time and let the matter drop. Why they couldn't use my letter as a starting point, I have no idea.

Too busy investigating "conspiracies," I guess.

The reply I got from the Sun said something like, "Thank you for the letter; however, we only publish letters that are responses to columns that we've already published." Somehow, I can't quite believe that that is a) true, or b) a good policy.

Anyway....

Robb -

They were gonna publish it as a 750 word guest editorial, not a 150 word letter to the editor. But alas I was too busy to trim it to 750 words.

Robb '94 wrote:

The reply I got from the Sun said something like, "Thank you for the letter; however, we only publish letters that are responses to columns that we've already published." Somehow, I can't quite believe that that is a) true, or b) a good policy.

Anyway....

Uh, yeah. That's bullshit. (In the "blatantly not true" sense of the word.)

Actually, I wrote my own letter, but there was no mention of 150 word limit in their response. I'm sure that my letter was longer than that, though.

I write for the Sun (I have a column in the Red Letter Daze section) - anything I can do to help?

Read these threads and links:

[elf.hockey.cornell.edu]

[www.hockey.cornell.edu]

[elf.hockey.cornell.edu]

There are several stories to be written. Ask for suggestions and I imagine the responses will be numerous.