My friend Josh writes about the apparent failure of the average newspaper sports section to have a variety of views.
Some thoughts:
1) 55% of the time, the sports section still provides a variety of views, which is way more than I thought. I don’t read the Citizen’s sports page for balanced coverage of a Senators-Leafs match-up, I look to it to have snippy jokes about Toronto’s inability to beat us in the regular season. I expect the Star to make jokes about the post season. The sports section is the one part of the newspaper where we expect it to be biased towards the location. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether or not the paper fuels fandom or fandom fuels the paper in this regard.
2) None of this is not to say that sports coverage isn’t insipid. At its best, it can be great. At its worst, it isn’t fit to wrap fish with. Usually, though, it is my kind of insipid.
Fellow Travellers 
January 30th, 2007 
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