Beer Is NEVER a News Bulletin ... Really
I try not to sound like a broken record, but I get irked when certain media outlets overdo their adoration for and inflation of the Buffalo Sabres, particularly during their National Hockey League playoff runs.
Remember, this is coming from not only a Sabres fanatic but someone whose first journalism job was as a sportswriter and who was fortunate enough to win a New York Press Association first-place award for weekly sports coverage: It is not "breaking news,"as one television newscast called it today, to report during the news part of the broadcast, not sports, that you just found out that beer sales will not be conducted during Wednesday's outdoor party before Game 1 of the Buffalo Sabres-New York Rangers NHL playoff series outside the HSBC Arena.
The Sabres are basically saying that beer wont be sold because the team wants to promote a family atmosphere at the party. While that is a commendable theory, I don't know of many Buffalo/Western New York families who don't involve beer/alcohol somehow.
Remember, this is coming from not only a Sabres fanatic but someone whose first journalism job was as a sportswriter and who was fortunate enough to win a New York Press Association first-place award for weekly sports coverage: It is not "breaking news,"as one television newscast called it today, to report during the news part of the broadcast, not sports, that you just found out that beer sales will not be conducted during Wednesday's outdoor party before Game 1 of the Buffalo Sabres-New York Rangers NHL playoff series outside the HSBC Arena.
The Sabres are basically saying that beer wont be sold because the team wants to promote a family atmosphere at the party. While that is a commendable theory, I don't know of many Buffalo/Western New York families who don't involve beer/alcohol somehow.
posted by Kevin J. Hosey at 10:22 PM
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