The Concordiensis cracks national news
Article on Congressman Sweeney draws media interest from Los Angeles to Washington D.C.
Joanna Stern
Issue date: 5/4/06 Section: News
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As 1,800 copies of the April 27 issue of the Concordiensis hit stands in the Reamer Campus Center last Thursday, the front page article, revealing Congressman John Sweeney's attendance at a fraternity party, word spread quickly beyond Union College's Nott Memorial. The Concordiensis editors and staff writer John Tomlin, who wrote the article, found themselves receiving local, regional and national media attention.
Albany's Times Union was the first to feature the story of the Republican Congressman of Clifton Park drinking at Union College's Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. The local Albany paper posted a link to the Concordiensis story on its Capitol Confidential blog along with a number of the pictures that were taken at the party by freshmen student Kenneth Falcon. The Times Union detailed Sweeney's drinking, and the Concordiensis story, in its Inside Politics column on Friday, April 28.
Following the Times Union in picking up the story were other news outlets and blogs. A number of blogs linked to the Concordiensis story and website throughout the day on Thursday. Top blogs such as the DailyKos, TalkingPoints Memo, National Review's the Hotline, and FreeRepublic, each with a daily readership of more than 100,000, posted a scanned picture from the cover of the Concordiensis of Sweeney with students at the Union party. The DailyKos blog had over 350 comments on the article by the end of the day on Thursday. The Huffington Post, a liberal blog ranked currently as the fifth most read blog, printed the Concordiensis article written by Tomlin in full on its website. Wonkette, a political humor blog with 15,240 visitors per day, also posted the scanned picture.
The Glens Falls Post-Star, an upstate New York newspaper, sent reporters to campus on Thursday to speak with the editors of the Concordiensis as well as students that attended the party with Sweeney. "Two members of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, which hosted the party, said reports on Thursday in the Union College student newspaper about the April 22 party were exaggerated and contained false information," the Post Star article reported on Friday, April 28. The article also mentioned the supposed liberal slant of the Concordiensis. Responding to this claim in the Post Star article, Tomlin remarked, "I can speak for the editorial board and myself on this -- if it had been Congressman McNulty [a Democrat from New York] at that party, we would have printed the same story. We printed the facts."
Albany's Times Union was the first to feature the story of the Republican Congressman of Clifton Park drinking at Union College's Alpha Delta Phi fraternity. The local Albany paper posted a link to the Concordiensis story on its Capitol Confidential blog along with a number of the pictures that were taken at the party by freshmen student Kenneth Falcon. The Times Union detailed Sweeney's drinking, and the Concordiensis story, in its Inside Politics column on Friday, April 28.
Following the Times Union in picking up the story were other news outlets and blogs. A number of blogs linked to the Concordiensis story and website throughout the day on Thursday. Top blogs such as the DailyKos, TalkingPoints Memo, National Review's the Hotline, and FreeRepublic, each with a daily readership of more than 100,000, posted a scanned picture from the cover of the Concordiensis of Sweeney with students at the Union party. The DailyKos blog had over 350 comments on the article by the end of the day on Thursday. The Huffington Post, a liberal blog ranked currently as the fifth most read blog, printed the Concordiensis article written by Tomlin in full on its website. Wonkette, a political humor blog with 15,240 visitors per day, also posted the scanned picture.
The Glens Falls Post-Star, an upstate New York newspaper, sent reporters to campus on Thursday to speak with the editors of the Concordiensis as well as students that attended the party with Sweeney. "Two members of the Alpha Delta Phi fraternity, which hosted the party, said reports on Thursday in the Union College student newspaper about the April 22 party were exaggerated and contained false information," the Post Star article reported on Friday, April 28. The article also mentioned the supposed liberal slant of the Concordiensis. Responding to this claim in the Post Star article, Tomlin remarked, "I can speak for the editorial board and myself on this -- if it had been Congressman McNulty [a Democrat from New York] at that party, we would have printed the same story. We printed the facts."
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