Marcus influence at Newsday

[stuball888]

Seems like he is at it again. How else can you explain that Hofstra for the first time in its history gets 2 players drafted into the NFL and not a single article in the paper that claims it is a Long Island paper. If any player from Stonybrook made the NFL it would have been plastered on the back page.

[Rob O.]

That is terrible. I also hate when SJU gets more print than Hofstra. The smaller cities seem to take care of their own. Once again I cite a link from the Harrisburg, PA Patriot News.

Patriot News on Colston's draft

[copernicus]

Seems like he is at it again. How else can you explain that Hofstra for the first time in its history gets 2 players drafted into the NFL and not a single article in the paper that claims it is a Long Island paper. If any player from Stonybrook made the NFL it would have been plastered on the back page.

no mention at all??? thats unreal! editor in chief should be getting a note from all of us.
How is it that that Nassau county doesnt have its own sports editor? is newsday that small of a paper they cant afford it?

I have been out of the area for a while, but it seems like the Post and NYT have nicer pieces on Hofstra, and I have a feeling that if their sports writers were out of St Johns nothing would have been different.

[JoeyBagODonuts]

There was a SMALL (practically hidden) mention of it in the "By the Numbers" sidebar on the Local Sports page.

http://www.newsday.com/sports/baseba...7.story?page=2

[Uncle Buck]

I sent an email complaining.

Editor John Mancini can be reached at



[email:c1943]editor@newsday.com[/email:c1943]

[copernicus]

I sent an email complaining.

Editor John Mancini can be reached at



[email:0be53]editor@newsday.com[/email:0be53]

I just emailed him, join in people only takes a minute.

[Jack]

I hate to be the Newsday-slash-media defender yet again, but the truth is this is not hot news that demands next day coverage in a major market. If Newsday gets around to a story sometime this week, that will be completely appropriate.

[stuball888]

Sorry Jack this newspaper can give us a story about some obscure softball pitcher on the east end of Long island but cant locally cover the NFL draft. Was this such a shock that Newsday was totally unprepared? Like I said if this was a Stonybrook alum, this might have been on the back page of Newsday.

[Jack]

Sorry Jack this newspaper can give us a story about some obscure softball pitcher on the east end of Long island but cant locally cover the NFL draft. Was this such a shock that Newsday was totally unprepared? Like I said if this was a Stonybrook alum, this might have been on the back page of Newsday.

A story on an "obscure softball pitcher" can run on any day, however. That's my point. There's no urgency to get some stories in the paper immediately, including some late round NFL draft picks from a school where attendance is abysmal.

And come on Stu, how many back pages has Stony Brook gotten?

[stuball888]

How many have they merited? Just saying if these were Stonybrook players it probably would have been big news and there would have been an urgency. Jack dont you think a 4th round pick is good enough for a story. Colon was a local I believe from the Bronx , went to Hofstra then drafted in the NFL. No mention. I dont think that 131-271 blurb was good enough.