Media Coverage of Sports, Questions and Answers

For the past years the media has had a big effect on society. Many people rely on the media for news or sports coverage but they don’t realize that the media may influence people’s beliefs or way of behaving. The media covers sports in order to provide information to the fans but they also can create fake news to spark controversy in sports. The world of sports is largely affected by the media as they are a big topic to talk about throughout all kinds of media. Although the media can provide information of sports to fans, it can also create positive and negative conditions for the athletes. The media’s portrayal of sports creates rivalries between teams and players which increases competitiveness, damages professional relationships, and

THESIS: The media must take significant strides towards reforming the way they portray sports to change the current system of altering the ideals of athletes and diminishing the prestige of modern sports.

In today’s society, media is a part of everyone’s lives, whether people want it to be or not. One of the most openly disliked components of the media is the thin, ideal, hour-glass figure that is

This article talked about the daunting unequal media coverage in sports of male sports teams in comparison to females.They researched the true differentiations of coverage between men and women sports. The actual percentage difference of coverage of male vs female sports discovered in their research truly is unfathomable. Men’s sports receive 96.3% of the airtime, women’s sports 1.6% and gender neutral topics were 2.1%. When you think back about twenty years ago and the coverage of media people tend to think that America is generally trending positively forward, however that is not the case for the coverage of women's athletics. It has actually gone down since then. Although on the scarce occasion that they are feature in the news, more often than not they are conveyed in the stereotypical way: as wives, girlfriends, or mothers. When media is highlighting these aspects instead of their talent, hard work or success it takes away from their image as an athlete and it demonstrating that it is acceptable to do so in society. However if male athlete achieved equal success and he was a father, that

The main purpose in Carr writing this essay is to expose the small amount of diversity involved with the magazine industry, which has always been

A sports broadcaster, or sportscaster, is someone who provides coverage of sporting events using a variety of different media outlets such as radio, television, and the Internet. Sports broadcasters are usually seen at sports events during pre-game, halftime, and postgame coverage’s interviewing a coach or player that is participating in the sport event. They are also heard throughout the whole game going over the play-by-plays on the radio or television. There are two types of sports broadcasters, a play by play announcer which Describes the play and explains what is happening to the viewers, while the game or event is in action, and a color commentator which takes over during the times when the game is not in action to share personal knowledge and

We know only one thing for certain about a girl who picks up a magazine: She doesn’t spend every minute of her life watching TV” and she knows a lot of facts about every magazine “ (… ) A national quarterly run out of Boston that roughly estimates its readership at 45,000” “(...) Just a few issues old from the fitness oriented Weider Publishing”. The biggest success in her article undoubtedly comes from her writing style, and Pathos was used to enhance

The context of production and the context of consumption are the two dimensions that are relevant to the reason the message is being communicated. The fact that the only information about the writer of the article is a first name at the bottom of the page signifies that who wrote the article is not significant, but who owns it may be. Inquisitr, the media outlet producing the representation, is a news website whose goal is to publish the latest trending news and to ensure that readers “never miss the internet’s hottest stories.” According to the available audience demographics, the most popular section that readers browse is the celebrity and entertainment section and the site’s target audience is women, people with some college education, and people who work from home. Evidently, Inquisitr is built and branded as a site for the every day internet user. As a result, substantial, quality news is not the priority, but rather quick and compelling articles that have the potential to go viral. The story of Harold Henthorn and the death of his wife then is not written as the tragedy that it is, or even as a legal recount of the case, but as a brief, flashy murder mystery story that intrigues and engrosses the reader. Production and consumption of a representation, therefore, are not independent, but tightly linked in a way that creates the general

Magazines have implicitly and explicitly been influencing humans for decades. They are continually more involved in the media, however the market is highly competitive. It is extremely important for magazines to maintain the readers’ interest and loyalty therefore they must excel in its appearance and content. Helen Brown created the Cosmopolitan magazine in 1965. It holds a spot as one of the most successful women’s magazines of all time, and proceeds to be the number one selling monthly magazine. (Ouellette, 360, 2005).

Personally I just started watching ESPN recently because the FIFA. I agree many of you because ESPN does changed the sport in the way. Because I am one of the people who do not have time to watch the entire sport events when there are so many and all happened in the same time. Highlight and score broad does help many of people to keep on track of scores and important movement. ESPN does the great job to collect all the sports in one channel and with many different other media resources for people to gain the information they want in different ways. Also we shouldn't forget the negative and the impact on ESPN brought to us. After all the ESPN provided us close to 24/7 with all different favorites sport "candies" for us to chose. It's surprising

Journalism is an industry that provides a source of information and news for the public, while popular culture is a source of portrayal of the image of the journalist. Popular culture provides a glimpse and “shapes the people’s impressions of the news media”, whether it is portrayed in a positive or negative light. There is no denying that popular culture possesses a large effect on what the public perceives and thinks about journalists and the industry through how the characters, plotlines are presented. Sociologists have even argued that “popular culture’s depictions…of real world professions” have a major influence on the public’s realistic perception of that respective field. Thus, it is not a surprise that in the 1930s, journalist organizations deliberately advocated positive portrayals of the press in Hollywood. An example of a film that stands as a positive representation is The Front Page. Although the film presents reporters and editors “lying and hurting innocent people”, the audience is able to fall for their unique charm and charisma—they are brash, fast-paced, intelligent, composed, independent, passionate and investigative. They embody what America ultimately champions: self-reliance, drive for action and accomplishment. However, popular culture also perpetuates negative, unlovable notions that “journalists [are] hard drinking, foul-mouthed social misfits concerned with only twisting the truth”. In novels like John Andross written by Rebecca Harding

Looking at women’s portrayal in the sport industry through another perspective, women journalists who cover sports and discuss sports topics are thought of as “not knowing what they are talking about” when it comes to sports topics. The power of social media has brought attention to this issue in the way women sports journalists and media members are diminished for their opinion for the simple fact that they are women.

The evaluation of research and studies was conducted in order to assess possible liberal bias in the media. Through consideration of studies within the past twenty years, certain implications and causes of media bias are addressed and explained. As there are multiple viewpoints surrounding media bias, many stances are observed. Media bias is justified through a matter of diversity, party affiliation, liberal expectations, and varying definitions of bias. The results of these studies show that while media bias may exist, it not significant. It is also found true that most journalists have left sided beliefs, but tend to claim moderate. The negative reputation of bias is ultimately defended, and it is found that this bias can be considered positive in some aspects.

Popular culture has an undeniable influence on how society perceives itself. When examining mass culture, one must keep in mind the equilibrium between how much we, as a society, affect the way popular culture is constructed and to what extent popular culture influences the way we view ourselves and shapes our ideologies. An aspect of popular culture that may serve to greatly exemplify this theory of society as both the affecter and the affected is the genre of magazines targeted at young women. Though these publications are targeted as the representation of our society’s adolescent females, they actually have a great influence over the ways in which teens view and construct

In today’s society, it is nearly impossible to imagine our lives without the media. Television, radio, social media, and other types of media are a big influence on our lives and we all use them on a daily basis. They give us our news, provide us with entertainment, and we base a lot of our views and beliefs off of what we see and hear in the media. The media have plenty of positive aspects; however, with the major influence they have on individuals, the media can have many downsides. One of these downsides would be the media’s ability to create negative perceptions for the viewers. An example of this problem with the media is the coverage of men’s and women’s sports. Both professional and college