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hometown papers are SUPPOSED to be homerish towards the hometown team.
- Mars
http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblog...take_is_1.html
Readers take issue with E-N Spurs coverage
Bob Richter
The Express-News published a photo on Page 6E Wednesday of a wild-eyed Tim Duncan, his fist raised, his derriere on the hardwood floor, that was taken in New Orleans on Tuesday night by E-N photojournalist Bahram Mark Sobhani.
The photo wasn't missed by reader and Spurs fan Margie Cooke, who said in an e-mail:
"Shame on the Express-News and whoever chose to display such an unflattering photo of Tim Duncan ... He's a dignified young man and our Star. He didn't deserve this from his hometown newspaper. It was an unfortunate photo you needed to skip."
Another reader, whose name I failed to seek, called Friday to complain about sports columnist Buck Harvey's piece on Spur Robert Horry, "Return to cheap-shot Rob: He's left with one response."
"I'm sick and tired of reading his stuff," she said of Harvey's work. "If he can't say something good about the Spurs, he should go back to where he came from."
Finally, I received this telephone message from a reader who is NOT a Spurs fan:
"You guys are a bunch of crybabies," said the gruff-talking guy. "You always write when the Spurs are screwed
by the officials, but you never write it when the other team gets screwed. You're pathetic."
Holy moly! some of you are getting as testy as Greg Popovich when Tony Parker gets decked on a drive into the paint, and Joey Crawford calls him for charging.
The point I would make to each of the callers, and all rabid Spurs fans, is that Express-News journalists are supposed to be objective. That's something in which they take pride. Their job is to write -- objectively -- about the games and the players on both sides. Sometimes fans are critical of the paper when Coach Pop or one of his players is quoted whining about the officials. It's the old "kill-the-messenger" syndrome.
There is no question that our newsroom is packed with diehard Spurs fans. There are signs up all over, including one larger-than-life photo of Duncan that dominates one corner of the newsroom.
A few years ago one journalistic purist here suggested that all the "Go Spurs Go" stuff shouldn't be in a newsroom where journalists are supposed to be nonpartisan and principled. He was nearly run off; in fact, he may have been run off.
But the point is, the Express-News and its sports staff must be objective and should write and photograph dispassionately about the Spurs.
When they lose and Manu Ginobili or Duncan trudge off the floor with their heads down, and we publish the photo of that real-life scene, my phone will be ringing off the hook with complainants. But if the Silver and Black march to a fifth NBA le, and we run the smiling pose of the whole gang on Page 1, some of them clutching the NBA trophy, I'll get nary a call.
That's just the way it is.
hometown papers are SUPPOSED to be homerish towards the hometown team.
- Mars
Writers love the attention/reaction they get from people so they intentionally write about something that will rattle the cages. That's how they know their articles are being read.
It's Tpark. No "s" dammit!
that's pathetic (the fans writing in)
Did the writer spell Pop's first name wrong or that part is a fan?
Is the picture in question this one?
That's racist. I'm offended.Is the picture in question this one?
HOW ABOUT THIS ONE?
Looks like it's Richter to me. If that had been a fan's note, I'd have added the (sp) to the phrase.
No, they're not.
Case in point: http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index...700.xml&coll=1
Byline: By Dan McCarney
If there's another Dan McCarney as a sportswriter that just happens to be working for Times-Picayune, I'd be surprised. Dan's a sportswriter for the E-N, but likely got asked (well, paid) to cover the game for NOLA because they wanted another angle or somebody got sick or something.
Who's Dan supposed to "be homerish" for at that point? Times-Pic? E-N?
And honestly, I thought that photo really told the story of Game 5 well.
ahahahahahahahHOW ABOUT THIS ONE?
those two photoshops are pretty in funny
use a spork got dangit!!
You don't understand JB. People don't want the media to inform them. They want it to support their preconceived fixed ideas and rationalizations.
buck harvey is a waste of space........he is san antonio's worst writer.....i dont buy the paper because of buck harvey....anyone can type....anyone can make a story....why they pay him is cos,............buck harvey is a waste of space........go spurs go
The lofty journalist...all upset people may not like his purity of purpose and "objectivity?" Sensitive to criticism and complaints are we?
Give me a ing break.
Take your lofty objective idealism...and see if you can actually be that when you endorse the democratic nominee for president.
Its about your home-team in a basketball series...not ing world peace. You don't have to be "objective" here. Your not breaking some sort of hipocratic oath by supporting your basketball team.
Christ.
Journalists. Bunch of overly sensitive, politically correct, educated morons.
Last edited by SouthernFried; 05-17-2008 at 08:13 AM.
I wonder if Duncan228 will add that picture to her collection?HOW ABOUT THIS ONE?
True. I just hope she makes it a little smaller.I wonder if Duncan228 will add that picture to her collection?
I think it's funny when a journalist spouts these "journalistic integrity" lines. I am a Philadelphia Eagles fans too, and they pulled that card recently too.
It's funny because of the money-driven, corporate agenda that nearly all the major media evidence, not because it isn't an honorable idea.
I saved the original, not the photoshops.I wonder if Duncan228 will add that picture to her collection?
The cereal box name is spelled wrong. It should be 'Floppies'.HOW ABOUT THIS ONE?
Any forensic investigator (CSI) would immediately realize that the perpetrator was laying a false trail in a doctored photo to falsely implicate an innocent Spur player.
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