New York Jets in New York Daily News & Newsday

Newspapers every day cover the same stories and do so with slightly different perspectives according to the specific views of the writers, the interests of the readers, and the traditions of the given newspaper. Even two papers in the same city may have different attitudes toward certain people, issues, or institutions, differences which can be discerned on close reading. Two stories from two different papers on the same sports team will serve to show how these differences may be manifested, referring to stories on the New York Jets in the New York Daily News and Newsday.

Rob Parker writes about the team in a column on the Sports Page in Newsday, a Long Island-based newspaper that at the time had just ceased publishing a New York edition of the paper because of excessive costs. Newsday is owned by the Los Angeles Times syndicate, which has been reducing expenses and closing operations that are not deemed profitable. Clearly, though, there must be many fans of the football team in the Long Island region where the paper still publishes given the amount of space dedicated to the team in this issue.

This particular column is in the form of a call for the team to toss out one player and substitute another. Parker asks that Bubby Brister be removed in favor of Glenn Foley because the team has not been doing well, standing at a 2-7 position in this year's ratings. The season is already over, as Parker notes, so he is asking that something be done for next year to improve t

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. They could give me a signal to call time. They could talk into my helmet (Bondy 45). One thing on which Parker and Bondy agree is that the Jets have been doing badly and that they can almost expect that each game will be badly played and ultimately lost. Both writers are concerned about this and wold like to see changes made, but they do not agree on what those changes should be. Parker, as noted, blames Brister, while Bondy blames the coach, Kotite, though not without faulting the members of the team as well for their bumbling. In faulting Kotite, Bondy especially cites the inability of the coach to understand how to play against the clock, and he things improving the team could be accomplished if Kotite changed jobs: Earth to Leon Hess: Kotite is better suited to become the Jets general manager than to remain in the foxhole along the sideline (Bondy 45). Both newspapers pursued this story about the quarterback and which quarterback should be featured by the team. The issue for Newsday centered largely on the question of competence and on arguments over whether Brister should or should not be retained. The Daily News was more interested in the competition between Brister and Esiason, a competition that form these sto

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