Bias SMH coverage

[bobmar28]

And News is the best League media outlet - how?

They have a dedicated league section all through the summer. Almost nothing in the Herald at the same time.
Take today for example, the Tele has 5 league stories in their sports section, seven in the league section. What does the Herald have? One league story, even that is negative.

 

[Perth Red]

Sport and style. FFS. AFL is in the fashion section. League is in the sports section. That seems pretty right to me.

Perth Red, did you see the paper, or you just Sydney bashing again?

I don't need to read it, the hundreds of threads on here over the past few years about negative Sydney media would suggest that there is an issue! It's more media bashing than Sydney bashing but yeh I wonder why Sydney is the only city where the No1 code gets such bad publicity, any ideas Loudstrat?

 

[Brutus]

Never watched it but I assumed it was one of thse reality shows based on the life of an old tennis player

I originally thought it was a show about Madonna's nether region in the early 80's.

 

[sting]

WHat about that show Packed to the Rafters???

Based in Sydney yet constant AFL references as if fumbleball is the number one game in Sydney.

A disgrace.

wait wait wait... you watch packed to the rafters?

 

[bulldog]

Don't blame Perth Red's comments at all.......we both live in afl states and ALL newspapers focus on afl unlike the Sydney papers.

The AwFuL pay media outlets to ensure coverage, someone tell me how that is different from the cash for comment controversy a while back?

Advertisements masked as articles are disgraceful and all media outlets should be forced to disclose the details of them.

 

[El Diablo]

The AwFuL pay media outlets to ensure coverage, someone tell me how that is different from the cash for comment controversy a while back?

Advertisements masked as articles are disgraceful and all media outlets should be forced to disclose the details of them.

people should be making complaints here as i'm sure that a few principles are being broken http://www.presscouncil.org.au/pcsite/complaints/sop.html

 

[gottabegood]

I don't need to read it, the hundreds of threads on here over the past few years about negative Sydney media would suggest that there is an issue! It's more media bashing than Sydney bashing but yeh I wonder why Sydney is the only city where the No1 code gets such bad publicity, any ideas Loudstrat?

I think you would need to start with the Rugby war, who split, essentially over class lines. Hence Rugby Union has flexed it's superior political, corporate, influential, etc muscle and try every underhanded trick to blind and steal from the Rugby League world, and tinker with your mostly fragile minds....for the last 100 years.

Whereupon AFL has been united in the other states for 100+ years.

Nothing too complex.

And if they do this with sport, one can only imagine what happens at the top end of business and politics. This is the most interesting part.

 

[Loudstrat]

I don't need to read it, the hundreds of threads on here over the past few years about negative Sydney media would suggest that there is an issue! It's more media bashing than Sydney bashing but yeh I wonder why Sydney is the only city where the No1 code gets such bad publicity, any ideas Loudstrat?

Yeah, one idea. How about you suss out LeagueHQ.com and make your own mind up rather than take your cue from a forum?

IMHO League in Sydney rarely gets bad publicity that it doesn't deserve, except from morons like Bec Wilson or sensationalists like Weidler.

They have a dedicated league section all through the summer. Almost nothing in the Herald at the same time.
Take today for example, the Tele has 5 league stories in their sports section, seven in the league section. What does the Herald have? One league story, even that is negative.

League HQ has 9 League stories this morning. Fox has only 5. Dunno where the other 8 league stories went from your SMH - suggest you consult your dog.

Online - the SMH gives a better coverage by far.

 

[gottabegood]

IMHO League in Sydney rarely gets bad publicity that it doesn't deserve, except from morons like Bec Wilson or sensationalists like Weidler.

Unfortunately Loudstrat this is the exact problem. The bias media will funnel you into believing that Rugby League is the devil himself, and the other codes are angelic.
So unfortunately, you are exactly what they are looking for......and you are definitely not on your own though.

 

[Loudstrat]

No, read it again, and include the bit after the commer. Take out the crap from a few hacks, and the media coverage isn't nearly as bad. What AFL doesn't have is a sensationalist like Weidler, or a white anter like Wilson.

Articles about Watmough this morning, or Bird, Carney, Maitua etc, are, sadly, in the press because of player conduct.

 

[gottabegood]

No, read it again, and include the bit after the commer. Take out the crap from a few hacks, and the media coverage isn't nearly as bad. What AFL doesn't have is a sensationalist like Weidler, or a white anter like Wilson.

Articles about Watmough this morning, or Bird, Carney, Maitua etc, are, sadly, in the press because of player conduct.

Essentially the sensationalist portion is not wholly what I mean. It's the outstanding fact that guys like Peter Fitz, Kotch (?), Mike Carlton, Bruce McAvaney, Campese, Patrick Smith, the panelist on most all sports programs etc etc continually bad mouth RL, and continue to do so with the obvious perpetual endorsement from their superiors. Which is a reflection of power and influence.

But on the other stuff.

The stuff that all these sportsman get up to is a reflection of society, nothing more nothing less.
But the web that is weaved in RL vs the essentially covert operation for the other codes is again a reflection of power and influence.

Not unlike say a the difference between say a Anglo or a Muslim man who is involved in rape.

The difference in the headline would be "Muslim man rapes..." on the front page (and is new accusation) whereas the anglo version might not be newsworthy at all or in a tiny column on the side, yet he has been fully charged.

 

[Pass the Ball]

Do you check for communists under your bed each night...???

 

[RL1908]

Put aside your personal bias for or against poker machine revenues (something that 20th century society found legitimate) and have a read of this opinion piece in today's SMH:

At the end of the day less money from pokies makes rugby league the winner

http://smh.com.au/opinion/at-the-end-of-the-day-less-money-from-pokies-makes-rugby-league-the-winner-20090306-8r08.html

So fewer people are spending up big on the pokies and this means less funding for one of the most thuggish sports. What exactly is supposed to be the downside?

But rugby league is not such a fundamental good in our society that clubs deserve sympathy for their financial demise.

The sooner rugby league clubs move away from the time-honoured pokie-sport nexus, in which money is redistributed from idiots to boofheads, the better.

How can league enjoy a prosperous future without priming the next generation of elite players for misbehaving in nightclub toilets and bidding up the price of waterfront property?

Let's consider the statistics. Rugby league simply isn't a big player when it comes to getting children active, an analysis by the National Centre for Culture and Recreation Statistics shows. For boys, the most popular sports are outdoor soccer, Aussie rules, cricket, then tennis. Rugby league comes a distant sixth, attracting fewer than half the boys that soccer attracts. [Completely ignores that RL is a more physically confronting game than the other codes.]

 

[Lockyer4President!]

Do you check for communists under your bed each night...???

Have you ever made a worthwhile post?

 

[Pass the Ball]

Have you ever made a worthwhile post?

Worthwhile like your above comment..??

The quotes above are not from the news section, they are from the opinion section. Everyone is entitled to their opinion...even Lisa Prior from the Herald..

Opinion pieces are always going to ruffle a few feathers...That's the idea of them..

It still has nothing to do with bias..

 

[RL1908]

Worthwhile like your above comment..??

The quotes above are not from the news section, they are from the opinion section. Everyone is entitled to their opinion...even Lisa Prior from the Herald..

Opinion pieces are always going to ruffle a few feathers...That's the idea of them..

It still has nothing to do with bias..

No it doesn't - but don't hold our breath waiting for an opinion piece offering the alternative view to Pryor's.

 

[El Diablo]

Put aside your personal bias for or against poker machine revenues (something that 20th century society found legitimate) and have a read of this opinion piece in today's SMH:

At the end of the day less money from pokies makes rugby league the winner

http://smh.com.au/opinion/at-the-end-of-the-day-less-money-from-pokies-makes-rugby-league-the-winner-20090306-8r08.html

http://www.smh.com.au/news/investigations/lisa-pryor/2005/08/15/1123957999157.html

Typical SMH nuffy

 

[Lockyer4President!]

Worthwhile like your above comment..??

Worthwhile, as in actually talking about rugby league and not just hanging around in the threads about union or players misbehaving. After looking through your post history it would be easy to mistake you for a union troll.

 

[Pass the Ball]

Worthwhile, as in actually talking about rugby league and not just hanging around in the threads about union or players misbehaving. After looking through your post history it would be easy to mistake you for a union troll.

After reading your comments directed at me, it would be easy to mistake you for a d1ckhead...

What's your beef with me...??

 

[Rexxy]

In the bedroom, Julian obviously enjoys the cut and thrust ... of a strap on.


according to the (Reuben) Wikipedia.


Lisa Pryor

Born in Sydney in 1978, she was educated at Ravenswood, where she achieved a perfect TER score of 100, and the University of Sydney, where she graduated in arts and law.[1] She is a journalist and columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald,[2] where she has also edited the opinion page. She is married to Julian Morrow of The Chaser comedy team. Her 2008 book, The Pinstriped Prison, sceptically examines the recruitment processes of large law firms, management consulting firms and investment banks, and criticises the flow of talent into these fields.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Pryor