Sorry, sports fans.
Sports news. - edithistorydelete
Created on Friday, 11/03/2006 10:25 AM by Jane Lee
Updated on Friday, 11/03/2006 11:11 AM by Jane Lee
I'm not interested in sport news. At all. The fact that there's a significant amount of Australians, and indeed people around the world who care more about how many times a ball goes into a hole than the people that make the decisions that effect the entire population really bugs me. These days, sports bulletins consist of about 1 story on an actual match (soccer, cricket, whatever, but always played by men), 3 on poor on-court/field behaviour (dummy spits, fights with umpires etc) and 10 on some off-court/field indiscretion (drugs, steroids, phone sex, rape, extra-marital affairs). No offense to the soccer fans in J2, but there are more important things in news, and in life.
There. That should make what I'm about to write much more legitimate, warranting its place in this section of the blog...I do confess I absently glance at sports news when its on at work.....
James Bracey is the only reason I stay tuned in...
(Edit: you may have seen him from some memorable moments such as his coverage of the Australia vs...whoever Australia won against first in the World Cup, where he was cut off and pushed around literally by the screaming fans in Leichardt and started laughing in the live broadcast...!!)
Whaaaat?? Surely a little male objectification every now and then is needed to balance the scale- female journalists/newsreaders have been criticised more for their looks than their credibility for years.
Yeah.
I'm a Journalism nerd.
Leave me alone while I Foucault this essay up.