Dear Mr. Bondy,
I just finished reading your article on the NHL hockey game last night between Rangers of New York and the Devils of New Jersey.
With just the opening sentence you have managed to show how narrow minded and ethically shallow you are in regards to your profession. That sentence is also the only sentence that you injected an opinion in the entire article. After the first sentence its really just boiler plate play by play.
Yet in just that one sentence you have basically brushed the NHL as this league that moonlights as the old Worldwide Wrestling Federation (WWF).
You called it a niche league. The only thing niche is your readership.
Ritual violence? Morally wrong? We live in a world where MMA Fighting is growing in leaps and bounds. Where is your article lambasting that? In my opinion that is one of the things that is patently and morally wrong with America. But the only thing I hear you calling for an end of is The Lambeau Leap.
In that one sentence you just nonchalantly paint the NHL as a boorish and thuggish league. You do not go into much detail about the history of Devil/Ranger games, especially the recent series. You really do not provide the reader with any information about how and why everything transpired last night at puck drop.
You also do not provide the reader with any in depth thought process as to why you think it is a "niche league" or why it is "morally wong." In your profession sir, you have an obligation to the reader to provide useful information on the material you are covering. Not recklessly throwing out very generic and very narrow minded lines without backing up your thought process.
By doing so you show me your just like me. An average blogger who can be dangerous because he has a platform. Not a journalist.
Click these links to see how you should of reported on last nights game.
Blue Shirts Blog
Ranger Rants
Sincerely,
A Nerfherder from Long Island
