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Saints not "media friendly"
Posted on 8/12/15 at 11:54 am
Posted on 8/12/15 at 11:54 am
From Robert Klemko at Sports Illustrated. (My surprise level, zero).
" 4) I think it was disappointing to discover that the Saints are among the teams with the least media-friendly environments. I recently dropped by their summer home at the Greenbrier in West Virginia, where there was no open locker room or access to players walking off the field, a real rarity in the NFL. (Most teams provide, at the very least, the opportunity to interview players walking off the field). Maybe you don’t care about beat writers and visiting reporters having it hard, but I like reading about NFL players and their unique stories, like this one by ESPN’s Michael Rothstein on Lions receiver Ryan Broyles’ frugal spending habits. We get these stories by hanging around locker rooms and cultivating relationships with players. These stories help make individual players marketable in their cities and beyond, and they help connect fans to a league that made its bones in the early days by being extraordinarily accessible to fans via the media. When teams freeze out certain organizations and make life hard for others, it does a disservice to the fans and the league, not the media. The great irony in all of this, to me, is the trend of teams getting caught for bad behavior (Saints, Patriots) and subsequently clamping down on access. If you’re accused of wrongdoing and believe yourself innocent, isn’t the right response more transparency, not less?"
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" 4) I think it was disappointing to discover that the Saints are among the teams with the least media-friendly environments. I recently dropped by their summer home at the Greenbrier in West Virginia, where there was no open locker room or access to players walking off the field, a real rarity in the NFL. (Most teams provide, at the very least, the opportunity to interview players walking off the field). Maybe you don’t care about beat writers and visiting reporters having it hard, but I like reading about NFL players and their unique stories, like this one by ESPN’s Michael Rothstein on Lions receiver Ryan Broyles’ frugal spending habits. We get these stories by hanging around locker rooms and cultivating relationships with players. These stories help make individual players marketable in their cities and beyond, and they help connect fans to a league that made its bones in the early days by being extraordinarily accessible to fans via the media. When teams freeze out certain organizations and make life hard for others, it does a disservice to the fans and the league, not the media. The great irony in all of this, to me, is the trend of teams getting caught for bad behavior (Saints, Patriots) and subsequently clamping down on access. If you’re accused of wrongdoing and believe yourself innocent, isn’t the right response more transparency, not less?"
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Posted on 8/12/15 at 11:54 am to TigerHoo
frick the media
ETA:
The organization is always friendly to fans and local media. National media can eat shite.
ETA:
The organization is always friendly to fans and local media. National media can eat shite.
This post was edited on 8/12/15 at 11:56 am
Posted on 8/12/15 at 11:57 am to TigerHoo
quote:
If you’re accused of wrongdoing and believe yourself innocent, isn’t the right response more transparency, not less?"
Shouldn't the right response by the media be to eat a bag of dicks for shitty reporting?
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:00 pm to TigerHoo
This article is spot on. I have no access whatsoever.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:08 pm to TigerHoo
Payton has always been a dick to the media. He was just as bad if not worse before Bountygate (Negative fricking Larry, etc etc), and I think a very small part of that was why Bountygate got so bad...the media was gleeful to take down Payton.
Personally, I don't see the reason to be so openly hostile and restrict access so heavily. I mean, be smart about it, but there are plenty of successful teams that are significantly more open with the media.
Message boards have a strange thing with hating on the media and taking the coach's side, but in this, I do think Coach could be a bit better with the media.
Personally, I don't see the reason to be so openly hostile and restrict access so heavily. I mean, be smart about it, but there are plenty of successful teams that are significantly more open with the media.
Message boards have a strange thing with hating on the media and taking the coach's side, but in this, I do think Coach could be a bit better with the media.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:13 pm to TigerHoo
I really have no opinion either way on how the team treats the media, but I can't stand it when members of the media take to a public forum to whine about these things. The worst was the writer who slammed Aaron Rodgers for declining an interview after a Wisconsin basketball game.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:14 pm to Fun Bunch
Didn't he get Kenny Wilkerson fired back in da day.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:14 pm to TigerHoo
A coach should be strict with the media
And after the cum guzzling of Roger's 50,000 pages that turned into 5 relevant pages of a 200 page PDF/ppt, frick them
-shefty: really compelling stuff
And after the cum guzzling of Roger's 50,000 pages that turned into 5 relevant pages of a 200 page PDF/ppt, frick them
-shefty: really compelling stuff
This post was edited on 8/12/15 at 12:15 pm
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:15 pm to TigerBait1127
frick those bitches
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:16 pm to mindbreaker
He did.
He's had open conflicts with a lot of guys.
He's had open conflicts with a lot of guys.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:18 pm to mindbreaker
quote:
Didn't he get Kenny Wilkerson fired back in da day.
Brees had beef with him too, and owned him on it
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:19 pm to Fun Bunch
Another thing: the Wire tapping BS
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:22 pm to TigerBait1127
It was funny how quick it disappeared.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:23 pm to TigerBait1127
quote:
Another thing: the Wire tapping BS
I never bought that just for the fact it was claimed Mickey Loomis (who isn't a football guy) was the one doing it.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:25 pm to mindbreaker
And because the NFL has controls in place to prevent it while also being logistically impossible with the set up of the dome
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:27 pm to mindbreaker
Also loved how John Barr's article led with the US Attonrey's Office was told about it... Leaving out that he's the one who told him
Tried to make his claim sound more valid
Tried to make his claim sound more valid
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:37 pm to TigerHoo
IMO, the media has become worse over the years with their entitled, elite belief that they should be able to talk to any one, at any time, about anything. It is nauseating hearing them complain that certain athletes/teams won't speak to them.
Guess they didn't pay attention in journalism class when this has always been the case. But, the good journalists still find a way to get their articles/news. They do their own fact finding, find other sources, and nag the crap out of the person until they finally give them a story. They don't bitch in a report or run to twitter in hopes the player/coach will see it and suddenly change their mind.
Guess they didn't pay attention in journalism class when this has always been the case. But, the good journalists still find a way to get their articles/news. They do their own fact finding, find other sources, and nag the crap out of the person until they finally give them a story. They don't bitch in a report or run to twitter in hopes the player/coach will see it and suddenly change their mind.
This post was edited on 8/12/15 at 12:39 pm
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:40 pm to Weekend Warrior79
I remember when one of the posters here trolled Kenny Wilkerson on air and posted it to Saints Talk. Absolute legend 
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:44 pm to Breesus
quote:
The organization is always friendly to fans and local media. National media can eat shite.
All that matters.
Posted on 8/12/15 at 12:46 pm to TigerHoo
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