Hockey, stepchild of the media

Hockey fever does seem to be a very localized epidemic :-)
Search all you want and you'll not find too much about hockey in the general media.

I flipped between local TV channels last evening to find out which would even so much as just mention the Aeros sweeping win in the first round!  

Guess what, on the 10 o'clock news ONLY one (11)
said one sentence. Just one itty bitty sentence! 

And if you got ready to turn off because Aeros were not mentioned earlier as they should have been (The only team in a play off this season in Houston!!) .. you'd have missed that one mention for sure. It came so late and so quickly, so easy to be missed.

And ONLY after exhaustive palavers on the loosing (excuses, excuses) Rockets, Texans, the maybe on and off again Astros, and all those parochially driven :-)! reports of school teams of any and all sorts.  BAH HUMBUG! 

No photo, not video clip.. just at the very end a very short sentence.

And the general printed media is not much better!

At least in USA Today they print the results, if not much else.

The WSJ is strangely mum about hockey lately - even as the Cup battles unfold.

Unless, of course a hockey players marries, or even just dates, a hot movie star or the likes, then THAT becomes news! Bah Humbug, again!

Of course in Canada it is different. Hockey IS covered in main stream media and blogs abound. So even if the blogs are slanted in favor of THEIR team, any news is better than no news.  Biased news, unbiased news...any news is good! 

Without those bloggers we' d be as stranded on an island - depending on bottle post Lol!

    Thanks, hockey bloggers (you know who you are) for your news about 'our' hockey.