San Francisco Chronicle refuses to cover MMA and UFC and UFC President bashes em

[blog415]

Here is UFC president Dana White's tweet on twitter bashing the SFgate.com aka San Francisco Chronicle for being rude and not covering the UFC show in Oakland last weekend. The Chronicle rather have women's volleyball coverage and basketball and fishing than talk about the sport that is growing and getting popular.


Dana White - San fran chronicle says they hate UFC and would NEVER cover the UFC and were such rude dickheads to our pr girl. Hey SFC, **** u!!!! ...San jose mercury, oakland tribune, contra costa times, west county times, valley times and many more thanks 4 ur support!" -Dana White,

I would love to cover MMA for the Chron but they never get back to me when I write to them either. I write about MMA and Bay Area related MMA news right now and it is a great sport.

 

[Ace]

Well, at least he was classy about it.

 

[DanOregon]

Sadly, all those papers White named were represented by one reporter. They're all Singleton.


Anyone else think its funny he calls out the Chron for being "rude dickheads to our pr girl?"

 

[Ace]

The UFC: Stamping out rudeness one profane, sexist tweet at a time!

 

[Drip]

Here is UFC president Dana White's tweet on twitter bashing the SFgate.com aka San Francisco Chronicle for being rude and not covering the UFC show in Oakland last weekend. The Chronicle rather have women's volleyball coverage and basketball and fishing than talk about the sport that is growing and getting popular.


Dana White - San fran chronicle says they hate UFC and would NEVER cover the UFC and were such rude dickheads to our pr girl. Hey SFC, **** u!!!! ...San jose mercury, oakland tribune, contra costa times, west county times, valley times and many more thanks 4 ur support!" -Dana White,

Soccer is higher on the attention level than MMA. Sorry.

 

[Shaggy]

That's Dana White for you. Vulgar and incredibly thin-skinned.

 

[HandsomeHarley]

The ****ing moron is probably a boxing fan, like that idiot John McCain.

"It's barbaric! Human **** fighting! A bloodsport!" Em, er, what? Have I actually ever SEEN it? Well, no, but ..."

 

[HanSenSE]

That's Dana White for you. Vulgar and incredibly thin-skinned.

Agreed. Just his typical routine. It will come back to bite him in the ass one of these days.

 

[anonymousprick]

Here is UFC president Dana White's tweet on twitter bashing the SFgate.com aka San Francisco Chronicle for being rude and not covering the UFC show in Oakland last weekend. The Chronicle rather have women's volleyball coverage and basketball and fishing than talk about the sport that is growing and getting popular.


Dana White - San fran chronicle says they hate UFC and would NEVER cover the UFC and were such rude dickheads to our pr girl. Hey SFC, **** u!!!! ...San jose mercury, oakland tribune, contra costa times, west county times, valley times and many more thanks 4 ur support!" -Dana White,

Soccer is higher on the attention level than MMA. Sorry.

Yeah, you're right. Soccer was the top trend on Yahoo, Google and Twitter all weekend. Oh no, wait, it was UFC 117.

 

[RickStain]

I believe that it's growing in popularity. I don't believe that its demographics intersect with newspapers'.

 

[LongTimeListener]

I believe that it's growing in popularity. I don't believe that its demographics intersect with newspapers'.

That's exactly it. MMA is desperate to be covered by newspapers? Really, so how much of the MMA fan base is going to read the recap when there are dozens of MMA sites that write it better? And how much of the existing newspaper readership cares?

 

[Tucsondriver]

I believe that it's growing in popularity. I don't believe that its demographics intersect with newspapers'.

That's exactly it. MMA is desperate to be covered by newspapers? Really, so how much of the MMA fan base is going to read the recap when there are dozens of MMA sites that write it better? And how much of the existing newspaper readership cares?

I'd say very few SF Chronicle readers care about MMA. It's a sport that appeals to a red state demographic, which the San Francisco Bay Area clearly is not. That said, I think the Chronicle dropped the ball bigtime by not covering it. It's a big enough event held locally to warrant some coverage, and it would been a chance to explain to the rest of us why MMA has so much appeal in other parts of the country. I think getting ink in the Chronicle would have given the sport some legitimacy that probably would help MMA, and was probably a factor in their deciding not to cover it. Could White's tweet have been phrased better, sure, but the paper failed to cover an event that 99 percent of metro dailies would have, and if they really were rude to his flack, I'm with White on this one.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

Re: San Francisco Chronicle refuses to cover MMA and UFC and UFC President bashe

I doubt somebody from the SFC told the "pr girl" that "they hate UFC and would NEVER cover" it.

If the readers make it known they want that coverage, it'll get in the paper. I'm guessing the SE there knows his readers better than we do, so I'll defer to him on this one.

And White sounds like a tee-ball parent bitching about the lack of coverage. STFU Dana, you don't need the free publicity for your PPV.

 

[DanOregon]

I wonder if the UFC advertised the fights in the Chron. Anyone know?

 

[Rhody31]

I believe that it's growing in popularity. I don't believe that its demographics intersect with newspapers'.

That's exactly it. MMA is desperate to be covered by newspapers? Really, so how much of the MMA fan base is going to read the recap when there are dozens of MMA sites that write it better? And how much of the existing newspaper readership cares?

I'd say very few SF Chronicle readers care about MMA. It's a sport that appeals to a red state demographic, which the San Francisco Bay Area clearly is not. That said, I think the Chronicle dropped the ball bigtime by not covering it. It's a big enough event held locally to warrant some coverage, and it would been a chance to explain to the rest of us why MMA has so much appeal in other parts of the country. I think getting ink in the Chronicle would have given the sport some legitimacy that probably would help MMA, and was probably a factor in their deciding not to cover it. Could White's tweet have been phrased better, sure, but the paper failed to cover an event that 99 percent of metro dailies would have, and if they really were rude to his flack, I'm with White on this one.

The Chron should have done a front and center story on MMA. Their job is to inform readers and they missed a golden opportunity to do it with MMA.
This happens everywhere and I see the attitude with a lot of posters here. Just because it's not one of the mainstream sports doesn't mean you can't go and find a good story.
But that would require work.
Sorry for the rant. I'm sick.

 

[anonymousprick]

In terms of pay-per-view sales, this event is right up there with the Mayweather-Mosley fight for biggest of the year. If the Mayweather fight was in your backyard, would you even consider not covering it?

 

[Shaggy]

I agree that the Chronicle should have covered the event. They dropped the ball big time, and there's nothing wrong with spicing up your daily crap with a new sport once or twice a year. This would've been the perfect opportunity to do it.

But Dana White is acting like he's the one who lost out, not the Chronicle. The first time the CEO of a major sports organization dropped an f-bomb when he felt wronged, I laughed. Now I yawn and roll my eyes.

 

[spnited]

PPV sales prove the sport has a cult following of blood-thirsty jackasses, just like WWE.

Whoever the **** Dana White is, that tweet proves he is a ****ing moron. Great way to get pub for your sport ... call the Chron SE a ****ing asshole.

 

[LongTimeListener]

In terms of pay-per-view sales, this event is right up there with the Mayweather-Mosley fight for biggest of the year. If the Mayweather fight was in your backyard, would you even consider not covering it?

That again gets into what Rick and I are saying -- there are probably a lot of Chronicle subscribers who follow boxing to some degree and would want to have that coverage, and the Chron probably feels like they have someone on staff who could go there and make it a worthwhile read. MMA is a whole other world.

I am not arguing with the huge growth or the success of the sport. But I'm sure that at one time or another we've all espoused the theory that newspapers need to figure out what they do well, figure out what your readers want, and then do that. Along those lines, MMA is clearly something very few newspapers would do well and very few of their readers would want.

Oh and BTW I don't know why anyone would take Dana White's word that the Chron was rude. The more likely possibility is a 180-degree turn from that version.

 

[SixToe]

I doubt if Brian France would have told sports editors in the Southeast to **** Off back when they were wanting NASCAR coverage.

Instead, he met with them. Pleaded. Begged. Bought advertising. Explained how big it was and would be, and how many readers they could reach just like the ones who went to their weekend dirt track races whose results were published Sunday.

Dana White is an idiot.