12345678 wrote:
Anyone thinking the trials being held in NY is going to be some kind of breakthrough to the mainstream for the sport is delusional.
I would tend to agree. Press coverage of most running in metro area is abyssmal. There are NY press conferences where only 1 or 2 reporters show up (pre-race Mini earlier this month for example). NY Times sometimes sends someone, the News & Post, forget it, they're too busy w/ the Big 3 1/2. If you really want to know where running stands for those papers, compare the column inches it gets, even during marathon week, w/ just a single day's worth of horse racing coverage. And this is in the face of heavy duty promotion by NYRR and associated PR firms.
As I've said numerous times before, there's a finite amount of copy space in the papers (and air time on TV/radio). To get more coverage of running, there has to be less baseball/football/etc. The only venue this isn't true is the virtually limitless expanse of the internet. The only way there's going to be substantially more running coverage in the local press is if the Giants have a bye and the Jets are playing on Monday night. If you think otherwise, you're dreaming, if not, as said above, delusional.