Crossing the line

[Johnny Dangerously]

Sports director of TV station in Division I-A market wears the local college's colors (with logo) on the field during spring football game and does interviews with coach and former players for the big screens on the scoreboard during breaks.

Not for his station, which I should say did cover the game.

For the crowd, with the approval of the university.

There is a sort of what-up-dog vibe to his vocabulary during these "interviews." The whole thing feels like take-on-Orbitz meets spring football practice.

Is there any part of this that is acceptable?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

No. But I'm curious as to whether there's a little money in it for him from the school.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Don't know, but his station does the coaches shows.

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Don't know, but his station does the coaches shows.

My suggestion is all I got. Otherwise, the sports director is waaay too deep.

I had a chippy high school coach once bark that I was wearing the school his son was opposing at a college football assignment. No logos or such, though. I wear a lot more black now, so I guess no Wake Forest or South Carolina or Vanderbilt for me. :

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Oh, he's way too deep.

Interviewing a certain well known coach of a women's basketball powerhouse after a game, he was wearing a school-distributed T-shirt that said something to the effect of "Beat the (Women's Basketball Powerhouse)."

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Good grief. The scary part is he's destroying his credibility. Scarier still, he's probably scoring enough points with Hometown U. that it won't matter much.

Sheesh.

 

[fishwrapper]

Sports director of TV station in Division I-A market wears the local college's colors (with logo) on the field during spring football game and does interviews with coach and former players for the big screens on the scoreboard during breaks.

Not for his station, which I should say did cover the game.

For the crowd, with the approval of the university.

There is a sort of what-up-dog vibe to his vocabulary during these "interviews." The whole thing feels like take-on-Orbitz meets spring football practice.

Is there any part of this that is acceptable?

Did you mean, "What-up-dawg...?"
If so, I get it now.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Yes, but when said white-bread, jock-sniffing wannabe anchorman haircut says it, it's dog.

 

[JayFarrar]

You have to be in SEC country.
In my neck of the woods, the reporters and anchors wear team logo shirts for live shots, refer to the team as "we" and generally act like fanboys gone wild.
I asked one of the reporters about it and he said that he was acting under orders from the station manager and that he wasn't given a choice.

 

[Tom Petty]

so, they get paid to lick nuts in your neck of the woods?

 

[slappy4428]

You have to be in SEC country.
In my neck of the woods, the reporters and anchors wear team logo shirts for live shots, refer to the team as "we" and generally act like fanboys gone wild.
I asked one of the reporters about it and he said that he was acting under orders from the station manager and that he wasn't given a choice.

Shut up... .TV geeks acting like FANBOYS? I call bull****...

And it isn't limited to the SEC... This thing goes on all over...all the way back to the Federal League

 

[Riddick]

you hear of **** like that all the time in thiis business. I wonder if the person simply has no integrity or just doesn't know any better.

 

[Milo Bloom]

Local television is NOT--I repeat, NOT--journalism. It's a bunch of girls who spend more time applying makeup in the news van than actually reporting and guys who look like they crawled out from a sewer sticking a camera in people's faces for inane comments like, "I can't believe this happened in our neighborhood."

As for the local sports guys, they're nothing more than glorified cheerleaders trying to stroke the pleasure nerve of their team's enduring fans. Whenever real news hits, it is always: The (insert your newspaper here) reports..."

None of it is acceptable, but it'll never change. Once we all realize that local TV is a sham, getting on with our jobs becomes much easier. ;D

 

[jakewriter82]

Local television is NOT--I repeat, NOT--journalism. It's a bunch of girls who spend more time applying makeup in the news van than actually reporting and guys who look like they crawled out from a sewer sticking a camera in people's faces for inane comments like, "I can't believe this happened in our neighborhood."

As for the local sports guys, they're nothing more than glorified cheerleaders trying to stroke the pleasure nerve of their team's enduring fans. Whenever real news hits, it is always: The (insert your newspaper here) reports..."

None of it is acceptable, but it'll never change. Once we all realize that local TV is a sham, getting on with our jobs becomes much easier. ;D

Agreed. The local sports guy here puts a camera on the game at hand, gets the final score and rehashes the games on-air.
Must be nice not ever having to talk to anyone associated with the teams...

 

[Rasputin]

Where I'm from, the TV guys are all over the message boards, too, pimping their act.

 

[CapeCodder]

Local television is NOT--I repeat, NOT--journalism. It's a bunch of girls who spend more time applying makeup in the news van than actually reporting and guys who look like they crawled out from a sewer sticking a camera in people's faces for inane comments like, "I can't believe this happened in our neighborhood."

As for the local sports guys, they're nothing more than glorified cheerleaders trying to stroke the pleasure nerve of their team's enduring fans. Whenever real news hits, it is always: The (insert your newspaper here) reports..."

None of it is acceptable, but it'll never change. Once we all realize that local TV is a sham, getting on with our jobs becomes much easier. ;D

Agreed. The local sports guy here puts a camera on the game at hand, gets the final score and rehashes the games on-air.
Must be nice not ever having to talk to anyone associated with the teams...

Happens all the time--I've seen TV reporters (sports guys) who have covered the Patriots wearing Patriots gear in the locker room. But the worst is the Red Sox--TV talking heads around these parts who are sent to anchor coverage on the road (the 2004 World Series was the best example) are almost always wearing Red Sox caps and jackets on air. More than a few TV people also took time out of their busy schedules to pose with the trophy after the Series was done. Ugh.

 

[Big Buckin' agate_monkey]

Guy near me will wear high school colors with logos to high school events ... usually state finals. Otherwise, it's the colors of the big U down the road.

I also feel obligated to mention this. I worked in TV for about nine months. The journalism was painfully bad. But the actual people weren't bad. I have no problem getting a beer with most of them, we just can't talk journalism.

 

[slappy4428]

The ultimate in bandwagon boys -- first to jump on, first to jump off...

 

[boots]

Remember, it's TV. It's fantasy, not reality.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Local television is NOT--I repeat, NOT--journalism. It's a bunch of girls who spend more time applying makeup in the news van than actually reporting and guys who look like they crawled out from a sewer sticking a camera in people's faces for inane comments like, "I can't believe this happened in our neighborhood."

As for the local sports guys, they're nothing more than glorified cheerleaders trying to stroke the pleasure nerve of their team's enduring fans. Whenever real news hits, it is always: The (insert your newspaper here) reports..."

None of it is acceptable, but it'll never change. Once we all realize that local TV is a sham, getting on with our jobs becomes much easier. ;D

I suspect you'll be reading a book Lugnuts' foot wrote. It's called "On The Road to In Your Ass".