MEDIA WATCH: Nothing on the ETSU coaching search for two days

This really isn’t a good look for local Tri-Cities newspapers. Or ETSU, for that matter.

On Saturday, Jon Rothstein, a college basketball reporter for cbssports.com, reported ETSU interim head men’s basketball coach Jason Shay had interviewed for the position full-time.

But you wouldn’t know that from the local newspapers.

For the second straight day, the Johnson City Press and the Bristol Herald-Courier’s website have ignored the ETSU men’s basketball coaching search.

Not even a blurb that “Jon Rothstein of cbssports.com reports Shay interviewed.”

Frankly, there are few stories that will occur in the Tri-Cities that are bigger than the ETSU men’s basketball coaching search. The future of the only local team that could possibly have any sort of a national interest is at stake.

Instead, the Press’ ETSU beat writer is penning features about his dog.

Above the fold, the headline piece is on the history of Science Hill basketball.

Frankly, this content digs up old wounds for ETSU fans. Seeing historical pieces on Hilltoppers basketball- in May no less- and ignoring one of the few local stories that will ever have a national interest recalls difficult days when local high school basketball coverage dwarfed that of ETSU hoops.

For instance, in the mid-1990s, an era without internet broadcasting, it wasn’t…