This Week's Column is up

[calgARI '07]

"Senior Forwards Lead the Pack" plus 3 stars fromthe weekend, burning questions, and predictions for the coming weekend.


http://www.elynah.com/?editorial&id=13

Email me your critiques, criticisms, and general feedback at alb69@cornell.edu

[CU Sun]

Hey Ari,

Ever thought of submitting these to the Cornell Daily Sun.

Nice job with article, although I was in Section D, first row and saw Gleed's hit.  He didn't take a run at him.  It was very embellished by Inhacak.  I think it was the wrong call, shouldn't have even been a penalty.

[calgARI '07]

To write hockey for the Cornell Daily Sun, one must have at least 3 semesters of experience writing for SUN Sports, meaning you have to write about Polo or Sprint Football or something else which I am not interested in doing.  I would bite the bullet and do that though, but there is no editorialized coverage of the hockey team and they have made this clear to me.

[KeithK]

So when the traditional media don't provide an outlet you turn to the new media. All hail the internet and Elynah.com! :-)

[Al DeFlorio]

Regarding the Michigan State preview, the Spartans have two pre-season All-Americans:  forward Jim Slater and defenseman A.J. Thelen.

[calgARI '07]

[Q]Al DeFlorio Wrote:

 Regarding the Michigan State preview, the Spartans have two pre-season All-Americans:  forward Jim Slater and defenseman A.J. Thelen.[/q]

I like both players a lot and think both will make it to the NHL, although both are off to kind of slow starts.

[puff]

NHL. What is that? ::nut::

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]calgARI '07 Wrote: To write hockey for the Cornell Daily Sun, ... but there is no editorialized coverage of the hockey team and they have made this clear to me.[/q]Yes, that's the way journalism is supposed to be. News is news, and editorials are... well you get the point.

Now, I only wish other news outlets would do the same.::rolleyes::

[KenP]

Just to demonstrate that I've learned from the Brown post-game discussion, let me clarify that Varteressian did not play one of the Clarkson post-season games because of a game-disqualification, not a game-misconduct.

[calgARI '07]

I was of the impression that he got a game misconduct.  If you get a game misconduct in the third period of a game, you are automatically out the next game.

[CowbellGuy]

Whether or not that's true, he got a game DQ.

[KeithK]

[q]If you get a game misconduct in the third period of a game, you are automatically out the next game.[/q]Not true, or at least I can't find any reference to it in the rulebook http://www.ncaa.org/library/rules/2005/2005_ice_hockey_rules.pdf
[q]SECTION 4.4 b. A game misconduct penalty involves the suspension of a player, coach or other non-playing persons for the balance of the game; however, a substitute is permitted to replace a player immediately.  The offending player, coach or non-playing persons must leave the bench and playing surface immediately and may not communicate with or contact team personnel in any manner until the game is completed. Any contact with game officials is prohibited.
Medical personnel cannot be assessed a game misconduct penalty.
A player who is assessed a game misconduct penalty is suspended for the remainder of that game only.  The player shall be allowed to play in the team's next scheduled game.[/q]Emphasis added.

[billhoward]

[Q]Jim Hyla Wrote:

 [Q2]calgARI '07 Wrote: To write hockey for the Cornell Daily Sun, ... but there is no editorialized coverage of the hockey team and they have made this clear to me.[/Q]
Yes, that's the way journalism is supposed to be. News is news, and editorials are... well you get the point.

Now, I only wish other news outlets would do the same.[/q]

When media outlets talk about separating fact from opinion, they really mean separating less opinionated from more opinionated articles.

If the Harvard game story says in the Crimson that "surprisingly" Harvard drew more penalties than Cornell, is that fact, opinion, or analysis? If they call the Cornell crowd "hostile" vs. "vigorous", what's that -- fact or opinion? Using the words "undoubtedly" or "few would argue that..." or (a Time magazine favorite pre-Internet) "it was clear by week's end that ..." doesn't turn opinion into fact.

The New York Times says it's the paper of record and would be shocked to have anyone (such as its own ombudsman, Daniel Okrent, who did) say the paper has a bias. But merely choosing what's on Page One, even that slants the news in the direction of what the editors say is news. You run a P1 story saying the rail transportation safety board is cozy with the railroads, somebody reached a conclusion that that story was more important than, say, a story on the success of charter schools (or lack thereof), that's a judgment call. The Times (news pages) seems to find stories about charter schools doing poorly; the Journal (editorial pages) seems to find stories about charter schools turning out successful students.

Long ago, just starting out as a police/fire reporter, I made it a point to always ask the cops after a fatal accident, was the driver wearing a seat belt? That was a bias on my part, because at the time you were hearing lots of anecdotal stories about people surving only because they'd be thrown clear in crashes. Nobody else at the time asked the question as best I know. I think that was a "good" bias but it was still a subtle bias in how the story read.

Often unbiased means more people with agree with the way you laid out the information you chose to put in the article, and the order it went in. That's about as good as it gets.

The direction now in TV news is toward whether you can follow it with a helicopter or at least get to it live. If you can, then it's news.

By the way, the reporters for the WS Journal are far removed from the people who write the editorials. They are a quite normal bunch of people and I bet they split pretty evenly in their personal lives between Bush and Kerry. But we digress from the business at hand: Cornell hockey.

[billhoward]

It would help if reports used the term "next-game disqualification."

[KeithK]

Of course, it's not always just a "next-game" disqualification (if you have more than one this season...)