Monday, August 16, 2010

Unbalanced Fair Coverage

A sampling of Fishwrap headlines today:
Toddler dies in Amelia crash
Two women found dead in home
Son accused of killing mom jailed
One killed in Butler County crash
Social InSecurity
Gunmen invade Westwood home
Deputy stabbed, kills attacker

Is it any wonder they didn't cover the local county fair?
Virtually doubling their fair coverage the Fishwrap gives us this wrap up article, Fair Attendance May Be All Time Low, on the Hamilton County Faur. Commenters cite a lack of publicity. The Fishwrap's total lack of coverage in favor of follow the gun reporting could be an issue here, I think.
So the Cincinnati Enquirer has 2 morose articles about the local county fair & about 18 not too good photos vs the Springfield News Sun managing about 20 articles & over 200 photos, some being pretty darn good and the Springfield News Sun still has room for shocking gory headlines.
Man stabbed multiple times at motel
OSU paid Kasich $4K per classroom session
Two in Urbana arrested on drug abuse charges
Driver was on tracks when crossing arm came down
Employees lock themselves in office during overnight robbery.

Why?
It's been clear for some time now that The Cincinnati Enquirer hates Cincinnati but it appears it's hatred has spilled over to include the whole county. Great.
Previous post on the topic here.

FWIW the Kasich article is pretty good. Will the unabashedly Republican Fishwrap report this?

2 comments:

Teresa Shouvlin said...

Fairs are great. Too bad it's not a summer school requirement or assignment for the kids. You learn so much. We went to the Clark County Fair together a couple of times, didn't we? The best fairs are rural state fairs.

Quimbob said...

After 16 I usually sneaked in.
Clark County Fair had support from IH. Hamilton County Fair apparently has no corporate support which is surprising in this city.