The secret Minnesota success story

Posted at 1:39 PM on April 8, 2009 by Bob Collins (9 Comments)
Filed under: Sports

It's an odd fact but a fact nonetheless:

The Bemidji Beavers have gotten more attention from the New York Times than from the Minnesota media.

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Comments (9)

I saw that story yesterday, due to a google news filter for 'Minnesota'. That was the first I'd heard the story - and now I want to be a bandwagon jumper and find a place to watch tomorrow's game.

Posted by bsimon | April 8, 2009 2:15 PM

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Why hasn't MN Public Radio covered the Bemidji Beaver Frozen Four story? There is a MPR reporter in Bemidji, Tom Robertson...we would love it if you would! Mary/Bemidji

Posted by Mary | April 8, 2009 2:23 PM

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When I was up covering the flooding in Moorhead, it was fun to sit with the Morse family that one evening, with the floodwaters pushing on a dike 20 feet away, and see them watching the Bemidji-Notre Dame game.

Posted by Bob Collins | April 8, 2009 2:27 PM

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My colleague Bill Hudson did a nearly 4 minute story for the WCCO 10pm news last night on the Beavers. So they are getting some love from the Minnesota media.

Posted by Jason DeRusha | April 8, 2009 2:52 PM

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And Pat Borzi, the author of the NY Times piece, is a Minnesota freeance writer (he writes for MinnPost too). So -- he is kinda the Minnesota media, right?

Posted by Jason DeRusha | April 8, 2009 2:54 PM

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Other than the great piece on WCCO, a few stories from the Trib, and of course Bemidji's local paper (The Pioneer) it is true that BSU's Hockey success story has gotten more attention from the media throughout the country than it has in its very own state. GO BEAVERS!!!

Posted by Kelly | April 8, 2009 3:37 PM

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If the media isn't reporting, they must have research leading them to believe their audience is indifferent. So, is Minnesota REALLY the state of hockey?

Posted by tiredboomer | April 9, 2009 12:07 PM

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"If the media isn't reporting, they must have research"

Maybe. Anecdotally, I don't think the media is that well-tuned. We're still fully capable of making bonehead editorial decisions from time to time.

As I've pointed to in the past, I think you also have to remember that a LOT of editorial process is filtered through what PERSONALLY is interesting to the editors and reporters (who will deny this is the case, but it is.)

There's also the metro-centric nature of the media. Bemidji is not in the metro.

Posted by Bob Collins | April 9, 2009 1:17 PM

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Yes Bob, I sort of had my tongue-in-cheek when I made that research crack. I was really thinking about the “personally interesting” point you made so well.

… although, your “boneheaded” and “metro-centric” points, no doubt, were also a factor in this situation.

Posted by tiredboomer | April 10, 2009 2:15 PM

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