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More East Coast Bias

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genius

I'm tired of the East Coast ESPN analysts giving the nod to Boeheim over Univeristy of New Mexico's Alford for coach of the year! His team is stocked with future lottery picks and NBA talent and was expected to contend for the Big East title..... We were picked to finish 5th in our conference and this was supposed to be a rebuilding year! Now look where UNM is! Give credit where credit is due!!

Just another reason I despise the East Coast establishment.
 
I'm tired with ESPN (And FOX!) & their constant bias towards TEAMS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. This ESPECIALLY holds true with ESPN's coverage of MLB. I mean when is the last time does ANYONE remember seeing an SNB game from Dodger Stadium? Or Petco Park? Or how 'bout Safeco Field or the Oakland Coliseum (In it's various names?). Hell, they don't even spend much time in Anaheim anymore!!

I dread to think of the exposure (Or LACK THEREOF) the Rockies will get from ESPN this year. In fact, I think the Avalanche have a better chance of getting last minute exposure from NBC for the rest of this season than the Rockies do at getting SCHEDULED exposure on ESPN this upcoming season.

And to think we're talking about a team who made the playoffs last year.

Just my $.02 worth.....

Cheers :D
 
I'm tired of ALL network news shows [and sports shows] basically ignoring the middle of the country. If it happens on the left coast or the east coast ["OMG! NYC is getting 6" of snow! Stayed tuned to our network as we unleash 24/7 news coverage with all 180 of our reporters covering this catastrophe! In other news, 13 feet of snow fell on Iowa followed by a record heat wave which caused the snow to melt suddenly unleashing a tidal wave that drowned 300,000 people. We'll get to that story if we have time. In Ohio, 329 tornadoes caused massive destruction and over $40 trillion dollars in damage and 16,000 deaths. Go to our website and click around on some links there, you might find the story if it hasn't been replaced by the fish-juggling kitten video. California was put on def-con 5 when a drainage ditch overflowed due to a 10 minute rainstorm and caused mud to scuff the tires on several cars. We'll have round the clock coverage with out team of 36 reporters. Meanwhile, the long awaited super volcano erupted in Yellowstone Park, killing all wildlife including humans in a 160 mile radius. Film at 11.]
 
Uh huh....because we all know they've not sent reporters to cover--often as one of the top stories--weather destruction in the country's mid-section. Oh wait, they do, every time it happens.
 
Yes, there is a bias of convenience. Pretty much all networks' news departments are headquartered on the east coast (usually in New York, ESPN is in CT). When it snows 6" locally, they get caught up in it. When a small plane crashed in the Hudson River last summer, we saw wall to wall coverage of it. If the same thing happened in Kansas City, it would hardly be mentioned. But that's because it's easy for them to run outside and cover the story as if it were important. And, there is a definite "Manhattanite's view of the world" attitude at work.

As for sports shows, that's true too. It's even true of the NCAA, only the bias includes the southeast. That's how undefeated Utah football got stiffed in 2008 for the NCAA Championship. All of these folks you see anchoring on national networks live in the east. Most around New York. And, a fairly high percentage (disproportionately) grew up within 4 hours of New York too. They were there to get the break which landed them the gig. Being natives of the region influences their view of the world. They try not to let it be the case, but it inevitably does.

With regard to the comments lumping California into this, I think that's overstated. Given the size of the population on the west coast, I think they get stiffed too when it comes to national news coverage of a story (Hollywood being the exception). Some of that is likely because of the time difference between PT and ET.

And if you think Iowa gets short sh-riff, try being an Alaskan or Hawaiian. It's as if you don't even exist.

But yes there absolutely, positively, is an east coast bias at work. They're simply being myopic.
 
imhomerjay said:
Uh huh....because we all know they've not sent reporters to cover--often as one of the top stories--weather destruction in the country's mid-section. Oh wait, they do, every time it happens.
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Bad analogy given the last two months we've been subjected things to "Snowmagedden" and "Snowpocalypse" yet hardly any coverage of the unusually powerful snowstorms to strike the Mountain West this winter. ::)

Of course I do concede my news department does cover a lot of issues not usually highlighted or told in the national media. My station covers just about all of New Mexico which probably now has 50%+ Hispanic population with a 10% Native American population. So at a local level we do our job to cover their issues and interests while the average Anglo East Coaster doesn't care about such things.
 
YEKIMI said:
"In other news..."
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Geez, I hate that term.

It's as if they've already told you all the important stuff ("breaking news"--
yeah, that one too ::)) and the next 25 minutes is just crap, filler, fluff,
weather ("sunny and warm now go away and don't bother me, I'm playing
with my Doppler" :D), and sports ("half the teams won, half lost, two pro
and one college athlete were arrested for various indiscretions, and Tiger
is still in sex rehab").
 
BRNout said:
As for sports shows, that's true too. It's even true of the NCAA, only the bias includes the southeast. That's how undefeated Utah football got stiffed in 2008 for the NCAA Championship.
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The NCAA does not award the national championship in Division I-FBS (formerly "A"). It's the BCS.
 
genius said:
Bad analogy given the last two months we've been subjected things to "Snowmagedden" and "Snowpocalypse" yet hardly any coverage of the unusually powerful snowstorms to strike the Mountain West this winter. ::)
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When a major snowstorm strikes between DC and Boston, you're talking about 30+ million people being affected by the storm. The federal government was shut down for a week. That's why it gets all the news coverage. It's also much more uncommon to get huge snowstorms in the mid-Atlantic/Northeast than it is out West. The impact is simply greater on the east coast than a storm out west.
 
JayR said:
BRNout said:
As for sports shows, that's true too. It's even true of the NCAA, only the bias includes the southeast. That's how undefeated Utah football got stiffed in 2008 for the NCAA Championship.
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The NCAA does not award the national championship in Division I-FBS (formerly "A"). It's the BCS.
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My nomenclature may have been off, but the BCS setup hoses schools like Utah that don't come from the 'favored' conferences. For example, I am absolute sick of how those guys bend over backwards for any big university in Florida. The regional favoritism of the BCS toward the east and southeast is quite obvious.

And the 13-0 Utes got screwed over in '08! Who ended up with the trophy? LSU at 11-2. Utah was never even given a shot at it.
 
Here's a test: Six people died in Arizona yesterday when a bus flipped over on the side of the road.

Was it covered on the national news??? (I honestly don't know, didn't have time to watch national news last night.)
 
genius said:
I'm tired of the East Coast ESPN analysts giving the nod to Boeheim over Univeristy of New Mexico's Alford for coach of the year! His team is stocked with future lottery picks and NBA talent and was expected to contend for the Big East title..... We were picked to finish 5th in our conference and this was supposed to be a rebuilding year! Now look where UNM is! Give credit where credit is due!!

Just another reason I despise the East Coast establishment.
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I don't believe on the part of ESPN this is an east coast bias. Syracuse was unranked and picked to finish in the middle of the Big East standings this season. Their 3 top scorers all left via graduation or declaring early for the NBA draft and they had a very tough schedule (at least it looked that way in the preseason)

As a Syracuse fan and alum, this is probably the best coaching job Jim Boheim has done. He took a Freshman point guard, a shooting guard who did not play last year due to injury, a transfer and some role players and built a team which has lost only 3 games and is the most unselfish team I have seen him coach.
 
taylorjsdad said:
I don't believe on the part of ESPN this is an east coast bias. Syracuse was unranked and picked to finish in the middle of the Big East standings this season. Their 3 top scorers all left via graduation or declaring early for the NBA draft and they had a very tough schedule (at least it looked that way in the preseason)

As a Syracuse fan and alum, this is probably the best coaching job Jim Boheim has done. He took a Freshman point guard, a shooting guard who did not play last year due to injury, a transfer and some role players and built a team which has lost only 3 games and is the most unselfish team I have seen him coach.
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If Boeheim was at New Mexico and Alford was at Syracuse, and it was still Boeheim that did the best coaching job, do you think for a second that he'd be getting the credit he deserves? No, it would be Alford, because he'd be the coach of the Big East team, not the one in backwater (and in the irrelevant-to-the-media Mountain time zone) New Mexico.

And Albuquerque is a much bigger market than Syracuse! But they're not in the east. There's a reason why ESPN stands for Eastern Seaboard Partisan Network (or Epstein's & Steinbrenner's Personal Network during baseball season). ;D

BTW, both men deserve props for their coaching efforts this year, and I'm not a big fan of either one of them.
 
Pat Cook said:
I'm tired with ESPN (And FOX!) & their constant bias towards TEAMS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI. This ESPECIALLY holds true with ESPN's coverage of MLB. I mean when is the last time does ANYONE remember seeing an SNB game from Dodger Stadium? Or Petco Park? Or how 'bout Safeco Field or the Oakland Coliseum (In it's various names?). Hell, they don't even spend much time in Anaheim anymore!!

I dread to think of the exposure (Or LACK THEREOF) the Rockies will get from ESPN this year. In fact, I think the Avalanche have a better chance of getting last minute exposure from NBC for the rest of this season than the Rockies do at getting SCHEDULED exposure on ESPN this upcoming season.

And to think we're talking about a team who made the playoffs last year.

Just my $.02 worth.....

Cheers :D
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Here's the link to the national broadcast schedule (ESPN, Fox, TBS, and MLBN):

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/broadcasts/national.jsp
 
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