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Post by Observer on Aug 14, 2023 15:30:16 GMT -6
We have got to have the worst sports coverage of any newspaper in the state of Texas. Longview has an article almost every day about the Lobos. Marshall got a tiny little blurb. We could be discussing returning players, newcomers, bright spots, weak spots, expectations. We could have stories on the offensive scheme, defense. Hell even an article about some of the coaching staff. Nope. We can't have none of that. But we will get 17 articles about Hallsville and the 7 year old dixie team or their jump rope team. The only articles they have with any meat on them are copy and pasted from ETBU's twitter. I'm not even sure we have a sports person anymore. I guess they are letting the paperboys do the reporting now. We use to have the best coverage around. Three or four articles a week or more. We are lucky to get one a week these days. But you can count on some things being copied and pasted about Longview or Pine Tree in our paper. Lazy reporting and lazy editing. May as well change the name of the paper or close up shop. The Marshall News Messenger is a mess when it comes to sports.
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Post by Playboy15 on Aug 14, 2023 15:40:59 GMT -6
"Marshall News Mess-injure"
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Post by Observer on Aug 14, 2023 15:57:02 GMT -6
"Marshall News Mess-injure" It's more like the Hallsville News Messenger. Or Longview Lite News paper. At least in the sports section. Maybe we don't have a local sports person anymore. I would be embarrassed to claim the job if I was putting out as little information as they are. |
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Post by Playboy15 on Aug 14, 2023 17:03:09 GMT -6
Written in Longview, Edited in Longview, Printed in Longview, Distributed from Longview !!!!
What else do you need to know?
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Post by RedandWhite on Aug 14, 2023 17:20:19 GMT -6
Written in Longview, Edited in Longview, Printed in Longview, Distributed from Longview !!!!
What else do you need to know? We are fourth man on the totem pole behind Longview Hallsville and Pine Tree. Probably Carthage too. |
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Post by Mavchamp on Aug 14, 2023 18:26:37 GMT -6
I'm hopeful it will be better this season.
We should get at least one article before the game and at least two afterwards. It use to be 3 and 2.
Wednesday- Defensive write-up
Thursday0 Offensive write-up
Friday- Pre game; History, predictions, match-ups, importance as far as district race, etc
Saturday- game recap
Sunday- Stats; Grade the team in the win or the loss; looking ahead at the following week
Those were great times. Newspaper business is different nowadays.
But Like I said....I'm hopeful. Going to give them benefit of the doubt!
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Post by ScoreMore on Aug 17, 2023 6:15:34 GMT -6
I’ve written the sports guy and the editor of the paper about the lack of sports coverage for MISD athletics. I never got a response from either of them. Not sure the sports editor even knows sports, during the high school baseball season he always called runs points rather than runs. Marshall athletes and coaches put in a lot of practice hours and deserve better coverage from the Marshall News Messenger. The Panola Watchman has one sports guy and he has numerous articles about Carthage Isd athletics during a week.
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Post by Playboy15 on Aug 19, 2023 20:15:33 GMT -6
I'm hopeful it will be better this season. We should get at least one article before the game and at least two afterwards. It use to be 3 and 2. Wednesday- Defensive write-up Thursday0 Offensive write-up Friday- Pre game; History, predictions, match-ups, importance as far as district race, etc Saturday- game recap Sunday- Stats; Grade the team in the win or the loss; looking ahead at the following week Those were great times. Newspaper business is different nowadays. But Like I said....I'm hopeful. Going to give them benefit of the doubt!
"Written in Longview, Edited in Longview, Printed in Longview, and distributed from Longview"
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Post by Playboy15 on Aug 25, 2023 8:47:07 GMT -6
I’ve written the sports guy and the editor of the paper about the lack of sports coverage for MISD athletics. I never got a response from either of them. Not sure the sports editor even knows sports, during the high school baseball season he always called runs points rather than runs. Marshall athletes and coaches put in a lot of practice hours and deserve better coverage from the Marshall News Messenger. The Panola Watchman has one sports guy and he has numerous articles about Carthage Isd athletics during a week.
Once again the "Marshall News Mess-injure", DISAPOINTS !!! Not a single word about Maverick Football team for ten days...
And yet, we know all about Hallsville Girls Volleyball.
Maybe they will report the score of tonight's non-district game with Tyler by, .....Monday |
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Post by ScoreMore on Aug 29, 2023 7:48:16 GMT -6
What a pathetic article in the paper today covering the Mavs game from last Friday. Only list a couple of Marshall players while listing several Tyler players. There are no stats nor coaches interview. The coaches and players are there Saturday morning and the coaches are also in the afternoon. That was one of the more exciting games you will see this year but you would not know it from the article.
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Post by Playboy15 on Aug 29, 2023 12:34:36 GMT -6
What a pathetic article in the paper today covering the Mavs game from last Friday. Only list a couple of Marshall players while listing several Tyler players. There are no stats nor coaches interview. The coaches and players are there Saturday morning and the coaches are also in the afternoon. That was one of the more exciting games you will see this year but you would not know it from the article.
Three days until the second longest rivalry series game in the State of Texas, and the biggest test of the year for the MAVERICKS and what do we get from the News Mess-injure, ..........CRICKETS !!!!!
We can Look in the Longview News Journal on Saturday morning to learn about the Lobo Vs. Mavericks game. MNM won't report on it until next Tuesday. They will probably just reprint the article from the Longview Paper |
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Post by Mavchamp on Aug 29, 2023 22:54:36 GMT -6
The Marshall paper is on the same print schedule as the Longview paper.
There is absolutely no reason we should have to wait that long for our write up.
It's sad. Really sad.
We've had some great sports editors through the years..... they seemingly just don't care.
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Post by Playboy15 on Aug 30, 2023 8:34:51 GMT -6
Again,... the News Mess-injure shows their inability or unwillingness to cover the Maverick Football team in real time.
Today they ran a 25 year old article about the Lobo-Maverick rivalry. The story originally published in 1997 has nothing to do with the game that will be played this coming Friday night. Several of the people mentioned in the article are now deceased, and none of the players on either team were even born when the article was written.
LAZY or INCOMPETENT !!! Who knows? Definitely a Disgrace in either case !!!!
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Post by Playboy15 on Sept 5, 2023 16:48:27 GMT -6
I think it is definitely The Hallsville News Messenger !!! Instead of writing an original article about the Mavericks-Lobo game the reprinted the article written by the Longview Sports Reporter. and where was the Marshall sports reporter last friday night? He was in Henderson covering the Hallsville Bobcat-Henderson Lions game>
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Post by Boybye on Sept 5, 2023 17:42:23 GMT -6
He's leaving. Not that he was ever really there.
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Post by Playboy15 on Oct 31, 2023 6:44:05 GMT -6
EVERY SPORTS FAN IN MARSHALL SHOULD CANCEL THEIR SUBSCRIPTION TO THE ALLEGED "MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER"
AFTER THE MAVERICKS SCORE 70 POINTS AGAINST THE NACOGDOCHES PUTTING THE #2 SEED PLAYOFF POSITION IN DISTRICT 8-5A ON THE LINE IN NEXT FRIDAY'S GAME WITH WHITEHOUSE, NOT A WORD ABOUT THE MAVERICKS.
IF THERE ARE ANY MAVERICKS FANS WHO STILL SCUBSCRIBE TO THE PAPER, I URGE YOU TO CANCLE YOUR SUBSCRIPTION!!!
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Post by jacky on Nov 7, 2023 13:59:19 GMT -6
I got ahold of the News Messenger today and their editor informed me that the newspaper has been out of a sports editor for the entire football season and that is why coverage has been lacking. The other newspapers like Longview and Tyler still have their sports editors hence why they have more coverage. She also said that if the school district or community wants to send in photos and info from the games they would love to run it, and also that anyone interested in applying for the sports position is welcome to. Contact I was given was news@marshallnewsmessenger.com to send in information.
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Post by Mavchamp on Nov 8, 2023 22:13:50 GMT -6
If I could make what I make now doing that job.....I'd be all over it. But that's not happening.
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Post by Mavchamp on Nov 8, 2023 22:16:47 GMT -6
But they do have reporters that could cover the games. They just don't.
Do you think the Carthage paper would go without articles for the Bulldogs? Nope.
Would Longview go without articles for the Lobos? Nope.
I love my hometown. And the MNM has been my source of keeping up for many years. But this has been so disappointing.
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Post by Playboy15 on Nov 9, 2023 9:50:20 GMT -6
But they do have reporters that could cover the games. They just don't. Do you think the Carthage paper would go without articles for the Bulldogs? Nope. Would Longview go without articles for the Lobos? Nope. I love my hometown. And the MNM has been my source of keeping up for many years. But this has been so disappointing. Actually they only have two reporters at the MNM. Neither of them cover sports. MNM is a newspaper in name only. They are down to 5 local employees. they closed their location on E. Austin Street and now they rent office space from ETBU. The circulation has dropped by 70% in the last 25 years. All of the printing of the paper is handled by employees of The Longview News Journal. Its sad, but true, MNM is a ghost publication. |
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Post by jacky on Nov 9, 2023 11:30:10 GMT -6
But they do have reporters that could cover the games. They just don't. Do you think the Carthage paper would go without articles for the Bulldogs? Nope. Would Longview go without articles for the Lobos? Nope. I love my hometown. And the MNM has been my source of keeping up for many years. But this has been so disappointing. Actually they only have two reporters at the MNM. Neither of them cover sports. MNM is a newspaper in name only. They are down to 5 local employees. they closed their location on E. Austin Street and now they rent office space from ETBU. The circulation has dropped by 70% in the last 25 years. All of the printing of the paper is handled by employees of The Longview News Journal. Its sad, but true, MNM is a ghost publication. They have more than two reporters but y’a no one in Marshall to cover sports. I think we also need to remember that the Marshall paper is run by Marshall people, and so are the reporters, they’re local and they care about what’s happening. No one’s lazy, they just don’t have someone to do that job at the moment. If you’re already writing articles and taking pictures why not send them to the paper? Since you’re doing the job already. No one is intentionally ignoring Marshall football. |
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