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Just now (Friday night) getting to watch, and really enjoyed the program. I think you guys did a fantastic job of representing not only the Boneyard but fans of UConn Women's Basketball in general. You came across as intelligent and willing to engage the journalists in the highest level of serious discourse about the sport. In some ways, you were more articulate about matters than the reporters were.
Still, I'm just a little amazed at the premise of the show, which I take to be this: Three guys who work for companies that buy their ink by the barrel (or the broadcast equivalent) call out a bunch of amateur "experts" and just plain fans because they on occasion make rowdy and irresponsible comments about sports and said guys and -- ohmygawd -- do it anonymously.
I can appreciate why Joe Zone would be sensitive about stuff said by someone on some board (not this one, it seems) claiming he did immoral things. I can understand why DiMauro would complain about being called a scumbag (which I guess happened on our board). But they are the people who GET PAID to do what is often the best job in the world, watching things and telling people stories about what they saw. They put their name on everything they write. While IMHO we all can agree that it would be better if BYers kept their slurs our of the personal realm, I found it unsettling that Zone felt the need to express the hope that BYers would take a cue from the two representatives who appeared on the program and keep the discourse civil, as if it were an unruly class 12-year-olds, which it generally is not.
What we have here is reporters who are used to living in their own world, which generally consists of them, their colleagues and the subjects they cover. They were not cognizant of what fans go through to get to a game (as a poster mentioned earlier). It seems to em they also were not cognizant -- until much later than many folks -- of the ways the media were changing around them. Their attitudes, as expressed in this program, demonstrate that they only now are figuring out that significant portions of the audience -- THEIR audience -- get and act on credible information from non-traditional media sources. Their grudging acceptance of the legitimacy of the Boneyard is, IMHO, proof of this.
As a matter of record this comes from someone who spent 18 years in the media, 11 in print elsewhere in New England and seven in Hartford TV.
Still, I'm just a little amazed at the premise of the show, which I take to be this: Three guys who work for companies that buy their ink by the barrel (or the broadcast equivalent) call out a bunch of amateur "experts" and just plain fans because they on occasion make rowdy and irresponsible comments about sports and said guys and -- ohmygawd -- do it anonymously.
I can appreciate why Joe Zone would be sensitive about stuff said by someone on some board (not this one, it seems) claiming he did immoral things. I can understand why DiMauro would complain about being called a scumbag (which I guess happened on our board). But they are the people who GET PAID to do what is often the best job in the world, watching things and telling people stories about what they saw. They put their name on everything they write. While IMHO we all can agree that it would be better if BYers kept their slurs our of the personal realm, I found it unsettling that Zone felt the need to express the hope that BYers would take a cue from the two representatives who appeared on the program and keep the discourse civil, as if it were an unruly class 12-year-olds, which it generally is not.
What we have here is reporters who are used to living in their own world, which generally consists of them, their colleagues and the subjects they cover. They were not cognizant of what fans go through to get to a game (as a poster mentioned earlier). It seems to em they also were not cognizant -- until much later than many folks -- of the ways the media were changing around them. Their attitudes, as expressed in this program, demonstrate that they only now are figuring out that significant portions of the audience -- THEIR audience -- get and act on credible information from non-traditional media sources. Their grudging acceptance of the legitimacy of the Boneyard is, IMHO, proof of this.
As a matter of record this comes from someone who spent 18 years in the media, 11 in print elsewhere in New England and seven in Hartford TV.
