Sports Broadcasting has brought athletes into the forefront of popular culture by showing their personalities on and off the field to the public. The genre of sports broadcasting is typically just thought to be the simple commentating of sporting events. However, there are two other massive subgenres of sports broadcasting known as Reporting and analyzing. The reporters are the dirty work diggers of the industry by using investigative skills and tough questions to gain interesting perspectives from the players and coaches themselves. The answers the reporters gain are then reviewed by the minds who try to use the information in a way that captivates audiences all over by analyzing these statements in whichever way they feel important. The analysts …show more content…
Sometimes these questions are answered with laughter or ignored, but some faces in the sports world are driven nearly to insanity by a stupid question. The king of responding to stupid questions from reporters is Greg Popovich, head coach of the San Antonio Spurs. He responds to these illogical and just plain dumb questions with anger, sarcasm, and dumb answers. This has caused a fear especially to young reporters who are tasked with approaching the man, while he would much rather be helping his team, and asking him questions. An example of what is a typical response from him is when the reporter asked after a rough quarter of basketball, “your guys shot 4-22 from the floor, why do you think this happened?” He looked at the reporter and said, “the ball didn’t go in the hole,” before walking away from the interview leaving the stunned reporter to fill in the last 30 seconds of the interview all by herself. The subgenre of reporting in the sports world is a vicious one that has brought many of the best stories of the sports world to the world’s attention. Sports Broadcasting would not be the genre it is today with the work of reporters working in the trenches, but the stories don’t always come straight to the audience. They are often critiqued and analyzed many times over by the middleman before the polished stories
It is important to understand the background of the person doing the reporting of events as it can influence what they think and say.
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In the early 20th century, baseball became the first professional sport to earn nationwide attention in America. Because it was our first national professional team sport, because of its immense popularity, and because of its reputation as being synonymous with America, baseball has been written about more than any other sport, in both fiction and non-fiction alike. As baseball grew popular so did some of the sportswriters who wrote about the game in the daily newspaper. Collectively, the sportswriters of the early 20th century launched a written history of baseball that transformed the game into a “national symbol” of American culture, a “guardian” of America’s traditional values, and as a “gateway” to an idealized past. (Skolnik 3) No American sport has a history as long—or as romanticized—as that of the game referred to as our “national pastime.”
As a result, there has been a significant change in the manner of presenting sports in media outlets. As a matter of fact, media discrepancies are getting better.
Next, you would have to study a lot and watch a lot of sports, and learn how other sports journalists are doing their job. Then, you would practice and practice your writing and keep practicing till you succeed.” She said while with a trilled expression. “How do you organize and gather information when you are about to write a story about sports and games?” asked the interviewer with a curious expression.
Amanda Ripley’s idea that athletics are a distraction in “The Case Against High-School Sports” sparked within me the question of whether all people are equally distracted by athletics in an environment which is heavily focused on academics. The author states, “During football season in particular, the focus of American principals, teachers, and students shifts inexorably away from academics.” I can clearly remember a day last May in high school where I had a late football practice and two AP test the following morning. I recall waking up very tired, sluggish, and upset that I did not get a last minute chance to look over my materials. I remember feeling like I had maybe taken on too much, but I knew I would be alright because I had prepared
Smith and Carlos were then able to walk off the field but it just got worse, “the shock was gone and it was officially getting ugly” (Carlos 121). The audience started to yell at them and called them “anti-American” (Carlos 121). Because of the social setting, people did not understand the purpose of what they were doing or what it had represented. There was ta...
In sporting activity participation and televised sports, there is a noticeable difference between male and female interest and involvement. In the article Center of Attention: The Gender of Sports Media Michael A. Messner discusses the issues that involve all aspects of sports strictly being a man’s affair. Messner expresses ideas that men are not only the forefront of sports participation, but sports media as well. A point is made in the article about the leaders in sports being those who are the most aggressive. This point is the reasoning behind why men are the superior figures in sports. The aggressiveness of men causes there to be more interest into male sporting activity which makes men a dominant figure in sports.
Sommers, C. H. (2010, August 12). Take back the sports page? The American Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.american.com/archive/2010/august/take-back-the-sports-page/
Charles Kenny starts the article with an easily acceptable example. The example that is given is about the Super Bowl and how they “donate the losing team’s shirts to a charity” (Kenny 58). By using football, Charles Kenny is able to pull in a large and preferred audience. He aims towards Americans to read his article and the Super Bowl is a common subject talked between Americans. The placement of the example is also very important.
The Web. 31 Mar. 2014. The 'Standard' of the 'Standard'. Duncan, Margaret C., and Nicole Williams. "This Revolution Is Not Being Televised" Out of Play: Critical Essays on Gender and Sport. By Michael A. Messner, Ph.D. Albany: State University of New York, 2007.
Media plays a large role in affecting peoples thinking, opinions, ideas, etc. In essence media can shape our thinking into negative views and perspectives that are typically not true. Sometimes the media plays as a puppet master to society. Specifically, the inequity of the gender roles within sports causes for a stir in commotion that calls for some attention. In doing so the inadequate misuse of media towards women in sports causes low exposure, amongst many other things. On the other hand their male counterparts are on the other end of the success spectrum. Because of this noticeable difference, it is vital that action is taken place to level out equality within sports. Due to the power of media, it is believed that a change in media coverage
Society loves sports and as a result, the fans idolize the athletes, almost as celebrities. Along with this new “celebrity” standing, comes major pressure to always be “perfect” or in the “right”. If the athletes make one mistake or have a bad game, their standing with the fans and their popularity changes negatively, lowering their self-esteem and confidence. In the short story, “The Silent Season of a Hero”, Gay Talese talks of how the former baseball star, Joe DiMaggio, felt pressured to always uphold the myth of the “perfect” player with patience (444-445). In the essay, “Kill ‘Em!
When Cal football was ranked the highest in school history-number two in the nation-Simmons was in the stands. He had also been in the stands when they were not a very good team, which happened to be the majority of the time. While witnessing a potential game-winning play that went wrong, ultimately ending in one of the most heartbreaking losses in Cal football history, Simmons exclaims, “I gasp. Seventy thousand people gasp” (9). Simmons informs the reader on what is occurring during the game to show how engaged the fans are, which is the