Globe: As Rogers circles the Jays, it

[J-Roc]

Just a quick article on a subject that needs more play. Not just Blue Jay related, but there aren't even blurred lines between sports media and teams anymore. It's just all the same.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-o ... e10537829/

In the most recent issue of Sportsnet magazine, their marquee sports columnist Stephen Brunt wrote a fawning article about the great chemistry between the Dominicans playing for the Jays. (The column promoted a 30-minute special Mr. Brunt hosted for the TV network called Up Close: Dominican Blue Jays.) How are we to tell that he’s applying any sort of critical eye to the subject?

Whenever these issues come up, Rogers asserts its editorial integrity by noting the critical comments made about its teams by Sportsnet personalities such as Greg Zaun and Bob McCown.

And it just sounds like Zaun and McCown have the go-ahead to be those guys, to play their role in the system.

[satyr9]

This is a story that doesn't have anyone to cover it and sports is the least of it. You don't even need to peek behind the curtain to see who owns what and the stories they run. News in this country is PR (or propaganda if you wanna get all dirty-hippy speak about it ) first, second, and third, and information starting maybe 19th or so.

In sports, it actually does no harm, at least to me. It's boring and hence they always have a counter-point bombast around to keep it just above utter boredom.

For all else, they're happy if they put you to sleep with coverage - go watch who wants to marry Gandalf or read 22 Hues of Sado-Masochism you intellectual wannabe - unless there's a cannibal pedophile with weapons of mass destruction on the loose, then they want you focused.

/tinfoilhatdisplay (but it's pretty right?)

[RINSE]

Fwiw, Sid Seixeiro was pretty critical of how AA handled the Romero situation on the radio Wednesday.

[tecumseh18]

/tinfoilhatdisplay (but it's pretty right?)

http://splitsider.com/2012/01/watch-the ... d-in-1998/

Pretty much. But we ourselves bear some of the blame.

In the realm of sports, we're ultimately fans (or we're not reading the sports pages). We have an emotional connection with the team. We don't want sportswriters to attack our team at every opportunity (where is Feschuk, anyway?). The occasional fawning article can get a pass, given the low stakes. It's not like Brunt was taking dictation from Amhad Chalabi and reporting it as fact.

OT, but one of the dangers of the increasing polarization of politics is that neither side wants to hear objective truth from its tribe's journalists. The US lives in a Fox vs. MSNBC world.

[Indiana Jones]

i don't care about anything other than winning. write what you want, good or bad, just win some damn games and make this season count.