Likewise, would nobody here be questiong how "BU Can't Pull Upset" was possibly the headline if we lost by 30+ at home.
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Difference in PJ Star coverage of local teams
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Likewise, would nobody here be questiong how "BU Can't Pull Upset" was possibly the headline if we lost by 30+ at home.
Some do. Funny how things tend to even out.
The PJS is far from perfect, but put it in perspective. They have not one, but two people, who extensively cover BU. Not to mention a handful of others who report on the other athletics at BU.
Oh yeah, and I think when softball made it to the NCAA, they had not just a reporter but a photographer who traveled with the team to Mizzou.
We could do a whole lot worse, like the PJS not traveling to the away games or having "wire" stories. The LA Times, which has reporters literally all over the globe, had a reporter cover the tournament in Springfield, MA that USC appeared in...
...From Los Angeles.
There would be an uproar if the PJS cheaped out on their coverage of Bradley, but on the other hand folks have a thin skin when it comes to their headlines. If anything, it shows the sports media here CARES about Bradley, and does not throw them under the bus in favor of more high school sports, Illini talk or whatnot.
Fair enough......but it seems once an opinion is formed by someone they look for things to accentuate it.....oh...that's just my opinion btw
Out of Balance
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Thanks cf for telling it like it is and putting things in real terms:!:
I saw the game and I am still having nightmares about it and wake up in a cold sweat
Thats funny. If you read Campos articles he often writes about his son. I have never seen a negative article.
I find this statement absurd-
Yes Bradley was embarrassed by a weaker opponent. Wow, I guess that has never happened before. You forgot to mention that 2 of Bradley's key players were out or hurting.
ISU was at full strength- they lost to a marginal Top 25 team, certainly not a superpower. There is simply no way anyone should lose by 31 points on their home floor, and for 40 minutes, never even put up a fight, nor make a run, nor even try to make an adjustment that might slow the slaughter.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if you really believe that if it was Bradley that lost last night to UNLV by 31 points on their home court, that the articles and columns in today's PJ Star wouldn't be slanted a little differently, than you are just as biased or oblivious.
tornado
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I don't hate the PJ Star, I like the funnies and need something to get the fire started in the fireplace....
but I call a spade a spade.....and I am not the only one who sees the local coverage of BU as so incessantly negative.....
...as pointed out in that link, it is negative when Bradley wins by 40 points!
http://bradleyfans.com/vb/showpost.php?p=14929&postcount=1
Did you ever wonder why so few people who represent BU are giddy about talking to the press??
wizard- usually I agree with your insight. But if we shouldn't be allowed to criticize the PJS because we do not have training and background in journalism, then those journalists have no right to criticize the Bradley team or coaches, since I happen to know they have never played or coached college basketball.
One doesn't have to be a chicken to tell when an egg is rotten.
abesimpson
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I don't think the titles or stories have that much bias. As for Reynold's story, he quotes Les as saying the team had to eat humble pie after that loss. He was just tying the headline into a piece of the article. If Les never said that, then yes, it would be a bit biased, but since that's how the head coach himself described the loss, it's an accurate headline.
As for Wessler, he did rip the team, but can anyone actually name positives from losing to a team that will be 300+ in the RPI at home? Playing and losing to UNLV at least will boost ISU's usually dismal SOS.
As for Wessler, he did rip the team, but can anyone actually name positives from losing to a team that will be 300+ in the RPI at home? Playing and losing to UNLV at least will boost ISU's usually dismal SOS.
Please do not use facts. It hurts the irrational black-helicopter crowd.
Don't you know everyone is out to get BU??
Why wouldn't there be? One is in the same city as said paper, with an obvious connection as they have a beat writer following the team. The other team is 40 miles away and is covered by the PJS as needed. Who cares anyway?
Missouri Brave
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Two things:
1. Reynolds and Wessler don't write the headlines. Reporters/columnists never do. That is left to the copy editor who edits the story for publication. This will really get the conspiracy theorists on the board fired up - there is an unnamed, anonymous individual on the PJS copy desk with a clear anti-BU/pro-ISU agenda! (note sarcasm)
2. Tornado your link doesn't go to a PJS story or column. You're ranting vs Wessler in your post but, as noted earlier, Wessler is a columnist who is supposed to state his OPINIONS. He doesn't have to show a modicum of fairness if he doesn't want to.
Let's talk about some hoops, not some perceived witch hunt that doesn't exist, shall we?
1. Reynolds and Wessler don't write the headlines. Reporters/columnists never do. That is left to the copy editor who edits the story for publication. This will really get the conspiracy theorists on the board fired up - there is an unnamed, anonymous individual on the PJS copy desk with a clear anti-BU/pro-ISU agenda! (note sarcasm)
2. Tornado your link doesn't go to a PJS story or column. You're ranting vs Wessler in your post but, as noted earlier, Wessler is a columnist who is supposed to state his OPINIONS. He doesn't have to show a modicum of fairness if he doesn't want to.
Let's talk about some hoops, not some perceived witch hunt that doesn't exist, shall we?
Please do not use facts. It hurts the irrational black-helicopter crowd.
Don't you know everyone is out to get BU??
I don't know how those guys get any work done...they spend 24 hours a day constructing paranoid theories about how everyone in the world is out to get BU...the PJS hates BU, the NCAA hates BU, the internet hates BU, the universe hates BU, and on and on and on...so much time spent wasted on something that is so meaningless. Exhausting.
Please do not use facts. It hurts the irrational black-helicopter crowd.
Don't you know everyone is out to get BU??
Now I see, it must be that Tim Jankovich did not have a single negative quote to say about his team last night since the only quotes seem to exonerate his players. Journalists never slant their articles, they only report the facts that are agreed on by everyone.
Again, I would like to know what you think, if it had been Bradley who lost by 31 pointas at home last night, and played as poorly with the coaches having no clue how to counter the slaughter, would the articles today have had the same headlines and read exactly the same, with no negativity?
Amen!!!
BradleyBrave
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No. Never.
Missouri Brave
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Da Coach, please give me a break. No one could possibly look at last night's ISU article and come away feeling positive about that team in any way. Puh-leeze.
Just stop. This is so pointless.