Chicago media and WNBA

[Sports Barf]

What a bad look for Chicago media…

 

[Della9250]

Do they have a sky beat reporter?

you have three major teams playing today and the other two in training camp plus I’m assuming so I would imagine this was at least sixth on the list of importance. I don’t know if they sent someone to northwesterns game but they would be traveling today

 

[micropolitan guy]

I forgot reporters were supposed to be advocates of the teams they cover.

 

[HanSenSE]

So if I'm reading her bio right, we have a Sun-Times writer calling out the rest of the Chicagoland media?

Add to Della's list the Illini writer(s), but betting they're based in Champaign, not Chicago.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

****, she should be celebrating.

She had a monopoly on media availability for what she maintains is a monster-interest, can't-miss beat.

Also, what micro said ...

 

[Equalizer]

I've picked up the Sun-Times a few times in the last couple of weeks when I've been in the Chicago area. She should probably be worried about her own writing before worrying what everyone else is doing.

 

[playthrough]

Could it be possible that some writers informed the team's media rep that they had conflicts and made other arrangements? I somehow doubt that the Chicago Sky is a fortress when it comes to access.

 

[JimmyHoward33]

Yeah crying about getting what amounts to exclusives is a weird look

 

[Typist Clerk]

Iowa used to (and may still) have a separate teleconference for opposing team writers. In Kirk Ferentz’s first season, for the Northwestern game, I was the only one on the call. I did not complain nor call out my peers.

 

[Alma]

I forgot reporters were supposed to be advocates of the teams they cover.

At this point, almost all of them are, and they're not shy about it, and it has long been true at the highest levels of the business. That's the funny thing. While reporters at smaller outlets always worried about telling the story objectively and earning critics along the way for doing so - at this point, some might even call them immoral to tell both sides of something - the stars in the industry happily stumped for their pals. Got rich doing so, too.

 

[rtse11]

I didn't realize there was a need for "media availability" in the WNBA

 

[Batman]

How many people even realized the WNBA season is still going on?

 

[Screwball]

It'd be one thing to say, "They didn't cover the playoff game."

But: "They didn't cover a conference call."

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I forgot reporters were supposed to be advocates of the teams they cover.

I've noticed an interesting and understandable advocacy of women's sports by the media covering them the last few years. I get it--to get the increased coverage you desire for the sports, you need to advocate why--but it does stray a bit into an ethical gray area. But in terms of ethical gray areas strayed into over the last however many years, it registers very low on my list of concerns. And there have been some pretty good exposes written about the NWHL and NWSL by these advocates.

 

[JimmyHoward33]

It makes no sense. If there’s this huge audience for the content, wouldn’t you be thrilled to have it all to yourself?

Why do you need the presence of other media outlets to legitimize your coverage if the audience is there? These people have the chicken and egg backwards; they’re arguing if legacy media covered this niche stuff then the legacy audience would transfer over to their niche coverage. Its bollocks

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

How many in the Atlanta media will cover this?

WNBA players were caught throwing punches outside of a club in yet another controversy surrounding the Atlanta Dream

 

[playthrough]

How many in the Atlanta media will cover this?

WNBA players were caught throwing punches outside of a club in yet another controversy surrounding the Atlanta Dream

"Atlanta has still managed to take over WNBA Twitter with their off-court antics."

Tell me that not that many people care without telling me that not that many people care.

 

[Alma]

It'd be one thing to say, "They didn't cover the playoff game."

But: "They didn't cover a conference call."

It’s honestly not even one thing to say they didn’t cover a playoff game.

news outlets should generally cover what they think should be covered (to make money or to send a positive message about who they are as a corporation) and what they can cover. Some print operations have **** for space in their paper and they damn well know, to the click, what people read online.

The WNBA is very well covered, all things considered, thanks to ESPN.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

How many in the Atlanta media will cover this?

WNBA players were caught throwing punches outside of a club in yet another controversy surrounding the Atlanta Dream

This read to me as if it was written by a hard righty mad the Dream helped flip the Senate.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Yeah crying about getting what amounts to exclusives is a weird look

Weird look or humble brag?