Serious question about Dallas media

[Avenging Hayseed]

Has it always been this way ? I can kind of understand why the national media like ESPN would want to do negative stories on the Cowboys because it makes for good copy. Just seems to me like the local Dallas media will go out of its way to create out of thin air if they have to any negative story they can about the Cowboys regardless of the negative effect it can have on the team.

Its like they LOVE nothing better than to gin some story up and stir the pot until they create a controversy.

As a Cowboys fan that has pretty much been a lifelong resident of Wisconsin this is very strange to me,...just not use to it. Here in Wisconsin its the exact opposite. For the most part everything reported on the Packers up here is all lollypops and rainbows. I swear,....these guys could just about pull ANYTHING and the media would do theyre best to cover it up completely or put a positive spin on it somehow.

But back to my question......Has it ALWAYS been that way down there? Or did it change at some point and time. If so...WHEN?

 

[Fletch]

Its the same way here in western PA. Steelers can pretty much do no wrong. The DFW media sucks!

 

[burmafrd]

it got worse in the 90's and kept sinking to its present level.

Does not help that most of the so called sportswriters are not worth a bucket of warm spit.

I have lived in the immediate area of Denver, Chicago, Buffalo and midway between Philthy and Pits and NONE of them has as negative an attitude towards their home team.

 

[lurkercowboy]

Same thing with Hampton Roads media about the skins. Nothing but positive and praise. Especially bad in the 80s and 90s. Don't read the papers much these days.

I subscribed to dmn in the late 80s hoping for hometown perspective on Cowboys. Boy was that a shock. Negative all the way.

 

[FLcowboy]

Every team mentioned has had a lot more success over the last 17 years. This off season has been one of the worst (so far) that I can remember. Just what positives are there to report?

 

[DFWJC]

Dallas media has alway been a huge springboard for getting into the national media.

Shockingly, few sports sections have earned more national awards than the Dallas Morning News' "Sports Day".

Part of earning their stripes to get into the national media's good graces is to show they are not homers. These knuckleheads go out of their way to be jerks at times and they get little respect from their peers unless they do so.

It's a shame really, and helps explain how a negative message about certain players can escalate over time. Very few in the team's market are willing to defend the players or owner for fear that they will lose their natioanl credentials.

 

[Avenging Hayseed]

Every team mentioned has had a lot more success over the last 17 years. This off season has been one of the worst (so far) that I can remember. Just what positives are there to report?

Maybe so,...but it was still this way up here in the 70's and 80's when the Packers were pure suckage. It was actually funny as heck to watch a Packers pre season game back in the late 70's and seeing the hometown announcers talk about the team be able to contend for a Super bowl run even though they were coming off of a 4 win season!


Even as a kid I was like........" Ummm,...are these guys HIGH? What the F are they talking about, Super bowl run????? "

 

[Fritsch_the_cat]

I blame Skip Bayless and his days at the Times Herald.

 

[T-RO]

The Steelers and Packers have earned positive press. And the Cowboys have earned the skewering that they receive.

Some homers around here just can't come to terms with it.

 

[Zordon]

It started when the Dallas Times Herald folded. But I don't think it's as bad as some of you make it out to be.

 

[Picksix]

The Steelers and Packers have earned positive press. And the Cowboys have earned the skewering that they receive.

Some homers around here just can't come to terms with it.

That doesn't have much to do with it. We got negative press in the 90's when we were champions, and the Pack has always gotten good press, even when they weren't any good.

 

[burmafrd]

The Steelers and Packers have earned positive press. And the Cowboys have earned the skewering that they receive.

Some homers around here just can't come to terms with it.

and what has Buffalo done?

And Denver has been down until recently.

Both have much more favorable local coverage

 

[dogberry]

Are there 30 NFL markets? Does Dallas have the most hostile media?

 

[Avenging Hayseed]

Are there 30 NFL markets? Does Dallas have the most hostile media?

Just my opinion,...but I would say that Us and the New York Jets are 1 and 1A. Meaning....we get the least favorable press coverage out of all the teams. Dont know if we or the Jets have it worse,....but either way,...its pretty bad.

 

[MissouriCowboy]

Just being an outside observer that used to live in Dallas I find Fort Worth paper good but DMN is always seem to be like a Tmz of sports reporting.

 

[honyock]

Just my opinion,...but I would say that Us and the New York Jets are 1 and 1A. Meaning....we get the least favorable press coverage out of all the teams. Dont know if we or the Jets have it worse,....but either way,...its pretty bad.

My impression was that Jerry always was seen as and treated as a bumpkin by the local press, and it was made worse because many of them hated the way he dealt with Landry's firing. Then the team had success under Jimmy, and Jimmy was seen as the genius counterpart to Jerry's goofus during the Super Bowl runs. When Jimmy left and Barry came in, the bumpkin storyline came to the forefront with a vengeance. Rightly or wrongly, accurately or inaccurately, that storyline has been fed by the local press ever since.

Jerry sure doesn't help the matter by lobbing them softballs sometimes, and there's the 17 years of disappointment to fuel it as well. But the local press has a way of funneling almost everything into the Incompetence storyline now, and they don't seem to care much whether their reporting is accurate or not. Goose's "they can't draft them" embarrassment is just another example...an inaccurate, thoughtless and stupid non-story that got fed through the Incompetence filter.

 

[MissouriCowboy]

Goose is a horrible NFL coverage guy.

 

[egn22]

So ironic that I was just thinking of how annoying Calvin Watkins is, and its like the OP read my mind. I'm tired of the negativity, the uneducated wannabe experts, the egotistical cowboy haters that have nothing to talk about unless they're bashing our coach or our owner. Its far from entertaining.

 

[dadymat]

Every team mentioned has had a lot more success over the last 17 years. This off season has been one of the worst (so far) that I can remember. Just what positives are there to report?

well for instance when your defense is as bad as ours has been and you bring in an all time great like Monte Kiffen ...maybe an article about all his accomplishments and how great it is to have him here....instead we get to hear about how old he is, and can he still do it, or perhaps bring up his college record as if that nullifies his entire career in the pros.....

there are plenty of positives....its just how you want to look at it

 

[sacase]

I don't even bother reading Dallas local media articles, they are always negative. I really started to notice it when they brought TO in. I said to myself, these "sports paparazzi" think that they are the story, not the team or players. They looked for every little thing, to turn into a major issue. The media was the cause for 99% of the drama that went on with this team. The only writer that was good was Albert Breer, there is a reason he only lasted a year in the DFW, because he was actually a good sports reporter who talked X's and O's. I was fortunate to talk football with him via email on several occasions.