re: houston chronicle and SEC coverage...

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The Chronicle always seems to reluctantly cover A&M sports

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as an objective outsider, i don't understand this statement. like any newspaper in today's media environment the chronicle has limited coverage of anything not on the national "wires" because they layed off the majority of their reporting staff. my view is that the chronicle reports pro sports first high school sports second and then treats a&m and ut with the next highest amount of coverage and then deals with the rest of the schools in texas. lastly they deal with other conferences and most of that is national "wire" stuff. the root of the problem is that customers don't buy newspapers any more. they have become little more than advertisements with a spattering of inane and little depth "articles". and that's in a city of 6 million souls. smaller town newspapers are not worth the paper they are printed on. sadly, many (if not most) people in the usa are content with internet snippets. it seems as if we are internet savy and dumbed down otherwise. sorry for the tirade. lastly, i would pretty much have to categorize the houston chronicle as the worst major city newspaper in the country. the atlanta JC, the Miami Herald, etc, etc are far superior. maybe its the fact that over 50% of our residents can't read but that's another story.