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Saturday 25 July 2009

Saturday media sux

So you wake up in the Professional Football forsaken city of Canberra.
Do the 2 degree dash to get the paper, Canberra Times and Sydney Morning Herald.

Straight to the sport. I'm a guy. Okay the A-League season is almost 10 whole days away, and in Canberra there are 20,000 players running out to play this weekend and in Sydney over 120,000.

So what do we get in the sports section?

Canberra Times: Nothing, absolutely nothing. Not one football story, men, women's local or national. You couldn't make it up could you.

How is it possible that there is not one story that might interest all the kids and parents who are involved in football.

Canberra Times seems to have a brain missing when it comes to their marketing section.

Sydney Morning Herald: One poxy story on Branko "I was desperate for an A-League job but you didn't hear it from me" Culina."

Oh well off to the footy with my kid, talk football with the other 1200 registered players and 3,000 parents at my club.... and let the Aussie media play their pretend games!

4 comments:

Bill said...

I feel your pain Eamonn, sadly this media attitude isn't limited to Canberra though. In today's Advertiser there was f*ck all as well.

Unknown said...

i noticed this too, can't believe that there's not one story?

and the worst thing is that there was like 7-8 sports pages, the hockey had three articles, football none.

Brendan said...

yes while football in participation and general reader/ community interest continues to surge all over sydney (and Oz), the saturday SMH bumper edition noticeably has been strangely avoiding football for 18 months or so apart from usually one small token article hidden away.

about 2 years back i remember SMH having more football coverage in their big saturday sports section - change of editors since (I can only guess).

the sun herald runs one page on football including craig foster column/ matthew hall O/S piece but last sunday there was a one page advertorial on sony signing as sydney fc sponsor.

so what does the sun herald do - not run two pages of football (advert page plus usual editorial page) as you'd expect but cuts the football editorial page altogether in that edition - very strange.

Anonymous said...

and its not only the Canberra print media that gives ignores football. i listen to the abc including the so-called 'local' grandstand hosted by 'tiresome' tim gavel with his bimbo side-kick bronwyn, and all we get is a raiders/brumbies promotional hour with heather reid doing a great job with the 2 minutes that is devoted to football.

during the kanga cup i did not hear a single story about the carnival on the abc. gavel should resign immediately as he is neither objective or fair.