> On Jun 19, 2007, at 9:57 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
>
>> You'll recall the CP publications, at their zenith, had lively sports
>> sections. They quite properly saw nothing wrong with covering the
>> commercial
>> leagues, though of course they encouraged their readers - as a healthy
>> society would do - to get out and play rather than just watch. I think
>> that
>> was the right attitude to have.
>
> I think I might've known this at one time, but had forgotten it.
> Anyway, a question: Was the coverage in a separate sports section, or
> was it subsumed into entertainment generally? If one were editing a
> similar publication today, is that how you'd do it? I probably would,
> but then, I'm an odd editor.
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My impression is that CP papers like the Daily Worker(s), l'Unita and
Humanite had separate sports sections at their high points of circulation,
but I can't swear to it. The smaller English language publications may only
have had a page, but I don't believe they buried their sports coverage in
the general news or other sections. You've probably heard of the US Daily
Worker's sports editor Lester Rodney who is widely acknowledged in even the
mainstream press as having led the fight to break the colour line in
baseball, and he probably had his counterparts on the sports beat on the
other daily Communist party papers. It would be nice, wouldn't it. if we
were nowadays having to wrestle with the issue you describe above?.