Space allocated to the sports section vs. biz news

Don’t get me wrong. I love sports. I am glued to the TV every Saturday watching college football, and my college basketball season tickets arrived in the mail yesterday to much fanfare in our household.

But I’ve always believed that one of the biggest inequities in journalism is the amount of space a metro newspaper in this country devotes to sports coverage vs. the space devoted to business news.
 
A reader of the Indianapolis Star agrees. Dave Coriaty wrote, “When our civic leaders lament the slow pace of business growth in Indiana, they need look no further than the Business and Sports sections of The Star for a clue. When one sees, on a regular basis, the number of pages of sports coverage versus the business-related news, the answers are obvious.
 
“The business section contained a total of six pages on Nov. 7. One was a full-page advertisement; another was weather and an ad, leaving a total of four pages of business news. The Sports section contained 12 pages of detailed accounts of every sport known to mankind.
 
“By my admittedly unscientific view, these observations prove that we place too much emphasis on sports, which should be merely a sidebar in our existence, while we neglect the most important of endeavors: our businesses that create the needed jobs to prime the states economy. Wake up, Indiana. Let’s bang the business drums, and put sports on the back burner, where they belong.”
 
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