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[snip] SUMMARY The media will always spin to produce the story their own audience wants. Either that or they’ll be so far from the truth as to be dangerous.
Hate to knock the feet out from under your premise, but never confuse sports reporting with journalism. Even sports reporters will acknowledge the difference.
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Hate to knock the feet out from under your premise, but never confuse sports reporting with journalism. Even sports reporters will acknowledge the difference.
A recent ONION had an article purporting to be a study of bias in sports reporting.
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if the media stuck to only reporting about scores and general on field play it soon gets very boring. they like to look for stories that affect certain players, the tournament in question or the sport of golf in general. greg norman got roasted by the media several times (when he used to be a regular here) cos it was good for the media’s ratings.
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The bottom line, is that we’re talking about golfers here, and no matter how the news hacks spin the article, it’s just going to end up in the bottom of a birdcage anyway. Fitting, I’d say.
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Rich Beem and Steve Elkington are currently in Australia playing in the Australian Masters. As usual, the Australian media can’t help themselves from asking the old perennials about why US golfers don’t travel much. ("They travel worse than a bag of prawns in hot weather", I think Stuart Appleby said once.) ELKINGTON’S COMMENTS At his press conference, Steve Elkington made the usual statements every Australian golf afficionado wanted to hear … basically that the US Tour was now so large and monolithic it is killing other international tours by sheer weight of dollars. "Many international players based in the US were not bothering to play their home tours, preferring instead to compete for the big money on offer every week in the States", Elkington said. (Note: this is coming from an Australian golfer, playing in the USA, who has come home the *least* in the last decade!) Elkington also said he believed that "Tiger Woods had a responsibility to play more events outside the United States to promote the game around the globe". (Note: I thought on this matter Tiger Woods was a reasonably good guy. What about Mickelson, Love, Furyk et al?) BEEM’s RESPONSE So at Beem’s press conference, the media asked him for his response to Elkington’s comments. Beem, ever the nice guy, tried not to inflame or offend.