Canzano: Anti-Duck bias? Or anti-Beaver bias? Or something else?
Reader sounds off on coverage.
Years ago, an avid reader of the newspaper I worked for made a habit of calling the sports department every Monday morning.
He was an Oregon State fan.
The poor guy would spend his weekend measuring the photographs printed in the hard copy of the paper, sizing up whether the Beavers or Oregon Ducks got more “play.” He’d calculate the column inches of prose dedicated to OSU and UO game coverage, noting which team’s story was positioned “above the fold” of the paper.
This dedicated fellow kept a running calculation of every word written about the Ducks and Beavers all season, right down to the word count of the photo captions. He’d call the sports department and start his week with a rant about what a raw deal his team was getting.
I received a similar note earlier this week.