Park Cities People

[Sir Trolls A Lot]

Fellas,

Recently, I have read gleefully as others have agreed with my analysis of many local media outlets. 1) The Ticket and the DMN are unabashedly anti-SMU. 2) Dan Rather's liberal Sportsline has also jumped on the bandwagon by ranking us 116 (we are at least in the 90's).

However, the final straw is upon us. The Park Cities People spends more time on local high school teams than the Ponies. It is difficult for me to believe that they do not have a full time reporter solely on the Ponies. I would love to see that coverage!!!!

[DallasDiehard]

Sorry, S.T.A.L., but that won't happen. That paper is terrible, especially in its sports coverage. They haven't covered SMU well in several years, and now they don't cover us at all, much less with a full-time beat writer. Their sports coverage is abysmal, and they seem blissfully unaware that SMU even exists. (Of course, should we make a bowl game or the NCAA Tournament in hoops, they'll be there, I'm sure .... but only to highlight the Highland Park guys.) If they covered sports NEWS in their readership area, they'd cover SMU. But their readers are HS sports readers, and they have no interest in covering SMU. Yet another reason to not buy that paper or patronize any of the businesses that advertise in it.
It's the same deal with the Park Cities News - both papers are embarrassingly bad. They make the DMN look like an SMU-sponsored newsletter.

[Mustangs35SMU]

You keep talking about coverage...

We've won 1 game in *adds it up* 19 games...

Would you cover us if you were one of the stations/newspapers

[Corso]

There's one D-I team in town, so yes, I'd have it covered -- full-time. The DMN does OK, I guess (of course they have to cover the Cows and Aggies), but the Park Cities papers are a complete joke. They don't want to cover news, they want to show pictures of who went to what party wearing what dress .... those papers are society newsletters and nothing more.

[Sir Trolls A Lot]

They don't want to cover news, they want to show pictures of who went to what party wearing what dress .... those papers are society newsletters and nothing more.

Corso,

I completely agree. I just would think that covering SMU wouldn't be bad for them in terms of circulation.

[Higher Authority]

Very true, SirT/Corso. There are a hell of a lot of SMU grads living in the Park Cities. And they can't claim that "we need to have those PC papers cover Highland Park HS, because SMU's in the Morning News." The Morning News runs more stories and pictures of HP football than any other HS team in the area. Why? To sell more papers.

The PCP had good SMU coverage years ago, but that seems like a long time ago. The PCNews never had it. They're both horrible, and fit only for lining bird cages and wrapping fish.

[PerunaPunch]

Ever since the jerks at D Magazine bought the People Newspapers, that rag hasn't been worth using as toilet paper. Shame too, because once upon a time, the Park Cities People won a bunch of awards for their sports coverage.

Now the only time people ever buy that paper is when PonyFans' shutter bug Jake Dean snaps a shot of them at some society event.

[Sir Trolls A Lot]

Ever since the jerks at D Magazine bought the People Newspapers, that rag hasn't been worth using as toilet paper.

I've noticed the paper has gotten much worse in the last two years, is that when D bought it?

Coverage on everything has gotten worse. Come to think of it, it has become a hell of a lot like D magazine (UGHHH). My wife won't even read it (and I hope that is their target audience)!!

[Vitale]

It was bought out last August, and it's been unreadable ever since.

[PonySnob]

What all can the papers write about SMU? How many issues can they keep talking about how bad the program is? Instead of worrying about the lack of coverage in the Park Cities News, why not be more concerned with how come in the last 30 game or so, there have only been 4 victories.

[WildHorse]

If you think PonyFans aren't concerned about the lack of victories, you know even less about the team's fans than you do about the team. However, with that said, a paper like the PCP or the PCN could profile "local" players like Brent Karrington, Charlie Berry or even Ryan Wolcott. Can any of us explain what it's like to be Doak Walker's grandson and play on a team that has a statue of your grandfather outside the stadium? Of course not - that's a unique story. Granted, these stories might draw more interest if they were breaking records or on a strong winning team, but the fact is that there are a lot of local guys on this team. And since both of those papers cover other (private) schools in the area, there are more players worth covering. Or they could preview upcoming games, since a bunch of the fans who come to SMU games live in that area.

Of course, if they were actual NEWSpapers, they would cover the Ponies simply because our campus (and stadium) are in University Park. But based on what I've read here, that's lost on the editors, I guess.

[50's PONY]

The week before the Texas Tech game this year the Park Cities News was called to do a story about the 1935 National Championship Mustangs because we were going to honor Harry Shuford and Maco Stewart, two of the three captains of the team. They did a huge story with a front page picture of the entire team. They came to the game and took a picture of Harry and Maco down on the field and ran the picture the next week.
Thank you again Park Cities News!

[PonyFan]

That is cool! I didn't know the PCNews knew where SMU was. Regardless of whether they had to be called, at least they covered an event. Kudos to them.

[jtstang]

SMU's record and local interest dictates the coverage and it already gets what it deserves.

[HixsontoLeVias]

...maybe we could put the Park Cities People newspaper emblem on our football helmets..??