On Friday, the Abington high school green wave took on the Cohasset sailors and came out victorious but how the game was reported and how the team was portrayed was differant between the two papers.
To start off, both of the papers gave the box score, which is esssentially the touchdowns, tackles, and big plays but what each article used to make their article something other than just facts varied greatly. The Boston Herald wrote an article talking about how the team has recovered from various injuries and are still playing at a high level of football. This is because a larger paper needs to write about something more than just statistics of the game to draw a readers attention when they are talking about a division 5 school. On the other hand the patriot ledger talked about the game in a similar way but ended the story with a quote, a seemingly double sided compliment from the cohasset coach. he said, "we scouted Abington's first three games and they did not play like this, tonight they came with a pupose". Was the cohasset coach at the right games? Did he know the greenwave nearly beat duxbury. This is the same man that after the cohasset baseball team lost to the wave by 10 runs he blabbered some excuse to the newpapers too.
The ledger put that quote in the newspaper because it is local news and some people may have the same feelngs about that quote as me but some may also agree with the coach. If someone who picks up the herald saw that quote they wouldn't think twice about it. Bigger newspapers cover more important and more entriguing stories while local newspaper focus on the small things.
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