Local Media Coverage of the Kings Playoff Clinching Victory

[Rog or Reg?]

I understand that journalism is not what it used to be, especially regarding the Los Angeles Times, but this is ridiculous.

I subscribe to a digital version of the Los Angeles Times, along with latimes.com.

In the digital version of the newspaper, on the back page, there was one paragraph about the Kings playoff clinching victory in Seattle.

On their website there was an eight paragraph article cut and pasted from the Associated Press, sandwiched between an article about high school track and field and the WNBA draft.

That's it.

That reminds me of a post I made last year when I was talking to someone about the Los Angeles sports scene and they had no idea there was a hockey team in Los Angeles.

I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around that. I've lived another parts of the country...Dallas, DC. Chicago... and local media coverage of the Stars, Blackhawks and Capitals was much more extensive in those cities than it is here in Los Angeles, and that's a damn shame.

I was expecting to read some in-depth reporting about the Kings and I could barely even find an article. I literally had to dig and use their search engine.

Pathetic.

 

[jom]

You are shocked by this? C'mon. It's been lame media coverage for the 52 years I've followed the team. In recent years the Kings have had their "insider" stuff but "outsiders" are rare. I can really only remember two or three people in the media that really knew hockey. Alan Malamud, Stu Nahan and more recently Helene Elliot. After that it was mis-pronunciation of the player's names, clueless game coverage and other non-sense.

This should all be well known by now....

jom

 

[Clif]

Apart from “state run” Insider, Kings media is entirely propped up by podcasts. There are a few high quality podcasts, a couple others with good production quality but boring hosts I can’t handle, and a few others that are utterly unlistenable.

You have to hand it to Jesse for hosting a post game call in show after every single game. And then he uploads the shows the next day. It’s actually more than I can get through.

I love the Bannermen, and admittedly they say things I already agree with most of the time. KOTP is entertaining and I like to love/hate it. I’d miss those clowns if they were gone.

 

[Rog or Reg?]

You are shocked by this? C'mon. It's been lame media coverage for the 52 years I've followed the team. In recent years the Kings have had their "insider" stuff but "outsiders" are rare. I can really only remember two or three people in the media that really knew hockey. Alan Malamud, Stu Nahan and more recently Helene Elliot. After that it was mis-pronunciation of the player's names, clueless game coverage and other non-sense.

This should all be well known by now....

jom

Not necessarily shocked, just disappointed.

I can guarantee when a major league sports team clinches a playoff spot, other cities would at least have a reporter covering it and publish a decent article. Or two.

The LA Times is one of the largest 'newspapers' in the country, and we get virtually nothing about one of our major league sports teams advancing to the playoffs.

I miss Helene more everyday. She was a good reporter, she understood hockey, and did a fine job covering the Kings. So she's gone and now we're just neglected?

This is BS.

 

[Rogie-Vachon]

The Los Angeles Times isn't even a bare bones fish wrap.
No beat writers for NHL (at all)
No beat writers for the Angels (a major league team)
They only cover: Dodgers, Lakers, Rams, USC. They barely cover: Clippers, Chargers, UCLA.
They'll send the soccer guy (Kevin Baxter) to home NHL playoff games.
Everything else is AP reports.... and the game recaps are a day late.
Deadline is apparently 9:00 pm...so any night games you get 24 hours later.
The late, great JIM HEALY - who used to call the Times sports section "The World Champion" - would be embarrassed on far this rag has fallen.

BTW - can you guess the mistake in this small blurb about the Ducks clinching?

 

[Pevsfreedom]

Kopidor, Doty, and the Sacramento Kings headed back to the NHL playons!

 

[JC6388LAKings]

I don't even read the LA Times since I get my sports news sources from other sites so this isn't surprising. What else is new?