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by **phips** » Mon May 08, 2017 1:14 pm

PrezIke wrote:
Douglas Higginbottom wrote:Never forget that some people just like to moan. It's like the media, the stories they go for are the negative ones all the time rather than look at the positives and the successes.

It's interesting you say this because I saw a few comments on a recent article in The Guardian about Rebecca Lowe, the host of NBC's coverage in the states which tends to be more positive or more "American" in style, suggesting English supporters who watch it and compare its coverage to Sky, BT and BBC prefer the more positive, yet serious and balanced tone.

We still like our negative stories here, don't get me wrong, but coverage on the networks that broadcast sport games tends to be more positive and focused on potentially climactic story lines in the studios and from those commenting in game. I think the reason why is that rather than taint the reputation of their product they want to hype it up to make people feel excited, especially interested in keeping attention of more casual or possible new fans who don't want to hear negativity (that's for die hard sport fans).

Sport talk radio here is where the negativity tends to remain, and on a few die hard sport fan shows on sports television networks. The only negative game day broadcast team I can think of in any sport here and popular is so because they are negative in commentary whilst using a lot of humour.

agreed.

i always find it so hard to relate to people on here complaining about biased commentators or news articles across the pond. its just a whole different world.