Word: crews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most common complaint--and one that has just been re-lodged against us by Radcliffe crew--is that we think men's sports are more important than women's sports and direct our resources accordingly. The corollary to this is the gripe that we don't cover smaller sports such as skiing and fencing...
...dedicated sports journalists, but reality takes its toll. So when we goof, as we did with the crew coverage last week, know that it had nothing to do with gender bias and everything to do with being human. The Radcliffe crew is right that our Sunday crew article was slanted towards the men's races. We regret...
...here's what actually happened: We initially planned to have two reporters do the crew stories. The first one we reached wanted to focus on men's crew. We spent hours trying to find another reporter. An hour before deadline and still without a second reporter, we told the first writer to include the women. The reporter reached the varsity heavyweight coxswain, who delivered a cogent account of her boat's race. We couldn't reach any other rowers in time, and the story went to print...
...actual no-holds-barred miss (such as the complete omission of the San Diego Crew Classic last week, nostra culpa) is usually just that--a miss. An error. Something that, up against deadline, we overlooked. A failure to communicate between a reporter and an editor. A whole team that's out at a party and can't be reached. If I'm sick with the flu and Tarek has three big papers due, quality control will slip a little...
...Crew at Dartmouth...