Field of Schemes
sports stadium news and analysis

  

This is an archived version of a Field of Schemes article. Comments on this page are closed. To find the current version of the article with updated comments, click here.

November 04, 2002

Cheering in the press box

Journalism is at its worst when sports stories are involved - reporters being conditioned to consider this the one area where it's okay to openly root for the home team - and when newshounds smell bad plays on words, it's Katie, bar the door. And so it was with local reportage of New York's selection as U.S. candidate for the 2012 Olympics, the Daily News asserting that while "New York City may feel like a gold-medal winner" after having "cleared an Olympic hurdle," it "hasn't reached the finish line yet." The headline on one News story: "Now, N.Y. Has To Beat The World." If you're a New Yorker, who're you gonna root for when you see that? The world?

Latest News Items

CONTACT US FOR AD RATES