Not pro-Bama enough will get you fired every time

As a person who knows Mobile I can say that the whole WNSP sports station needs revamping... and a new tower so I can hear sports news on the beach!

 

No offense but I dont think a tower in Mobile can reach Gary, Indiana. But I have been wrong before.

 

I've never listened to McCready and I can't say I've ever had the slightest desire to listen. I do have a few thoughts on the matter.

When you see Auburn fans talking about losing a good guy it would be easy to conclude he was "anti-Bama." His writing has reflected that over the past few years though I haven't read an article of his in quite some time. Fact is, I don't read much, if anything, from AL.com and the papers that service covers.

Impartial is what responsible, professional journalist are supposed to be. McCready has been known for openly cheering against Alabama in the press box during games. It's an unwritten rule that if you are in the press box you aren't supposed to be cheering for anyone. I know fans of different programs that refuse to sit in the press box during games so they can cheer.

If you alienate your audience it's a quick way to find yourself in the unemployment line. His MO, not matter who the caller was (as far as fan base) was to cut the caller off and then ridicule anything they had to say. Making fun of the state and its residents is another quick way to find yourself holding a pink slip.

It's my understanding this action was taken because of a show earlier in the week where he went obsessively overboard against everyone that called in. I believe it was Monday's show.

The Ultimate Sports Show (USS) that came on the air a year or so ago had been dominating the ratings in that area since its debut. Getting badly beaten in your time slot is another way to the pink slip line.

Last of all, and perhaps most important of all as well, the last person you want to look to in an effort to find out why someone was fired is the the person who was fired. I'd say, that's as far from an impartial source as one could get.

 

That's what happens in the news, journalism world.

I'm a journalism grad and worked in papers. I know first-hand how advertising drives news content.....or determines what isn't news content. We're taught in school about the distinct separation of the news and advertising divisions but that division is a fantasy. Dollars determines news. More to the point: bad news about big advertisers is ignored unless the story is TOO big to ignore. Advertisers get writers fired everyday across the country.

Want to know where this happens everyday: who ends up in DWI reports and who doesn't in papers is a good example.

 

Good example.

A couple of months ago the guy who owns a few car dealerships in Charleston was out drinking, asked a guy if he could sit in his car and then drove it home. It was reported on one TV station in the area, the only station they don't spend a lot of money in advertising with. The two others didn't even breath the story on air.

 

Good points and honestly a fifth grader could tell you this, which is why if you are actually in the business and don't understand that is is ridiculous.

 

Oh dude, they have people who work at papers who are moonbats for journalism and refuse to believe this.

I worked writing news in Kinston, N. Carolina and tried to develop a feature story after examining health board reviews of restaurants in the area. The paper let me go down and get all of the reports.....but when I started writing the story and they saw the violations that I was including....and violations from advertising restaurants, it was killed and they told me why. "We'll lose all our advertising restaurants."

I thought though the point of a paper wasn't for advertising and advertising wasn't my business. I thought the readers would like to know which restaurants they eat in (and have children eating in) have F's for cleanliness. It's a good story.....

But that story, an easy one to get, is never written in ANY paper in the country.

 

Perhaps, explains why some of us find you an excellent source of factual information, but a dubious source of anything involving opinion on the Alabama program.:hihi:

 

Care to cite an example? :thumb: