No, you CAN'T root in the darn press box

[Della9250]

I get that she's young and excited. But she's not some fan blogger. She works for a CBS station. What do CSU fans think? Air Force fans? It looks silly. She's not part of the team and the team will never regard her as part of the team. And what happens if CU loses or there's issues? Her responsibility is to the job and the viewers, not the Buffs. (To be clear - some of the fans who write or pod are excellent and I see the need they fill).

She's not young though. She's 36. She graduated from Colorado in 2010, not 2021

 

[PCLoadLetter]

Is that on a column or a straight story. Because a column totally makes sense

Column, I ashume. It's the first thing that comes up under the "college" tab on the website.

So… a column saying "We believe, Coach Prime" is cool…. But a tweet saying she's excited for her alma mater is bad?

 

[Della9250]

Column, I ashume. It's the first thing that comes up under the "college" tab on the website.

So… a column saying "We believe, Coach Prime" is cool…. But a tweet saying she's excited for her alma mater is bad?

Depending on the content of the column, probably? Depending on if the columnist has been saying, man I don't see how this is going to work or did something last week about how can they compete with TCU, probably?

It's one thing to give a nuance opinion in 800 whatever words than just YEAAAAAA GO TEAM GO decked out in the school's colors

 

[jr/shotglass]

Column, I ashume. It's the first thing that comes up under the "college" tab on the website.

So… a column saying "We believe, Coach Prime" is cool…. But a tweet saying she's excited for her alma mater is bad?

Frankly, I could care less that she attended school in Boulder. Means nothing to me in this context.

 

[Roscablo]

She's not young though. She's 36. She graduated from Colorado in 2010, not 2021

She's actually their top sports anchor now. I don't really mind her. Kind of like her for the most part. A lot of her socials are like this or basically promoting herself. However with this one she went pretty out there even for her.

Still, does anyone really think this hasn't happened for eons in TV? I lived and worked in Nebraska more than 20 years ago now and every TV anchor wore red. I guess it just is what it is.

I went to CSU. I don't like CU for a lot of reasons, and honestly sports just tips that iceberg (I may have touched on some of the personal element here at one point). That said, the whole freaking area is so gaga over Deion that I just roll my eyes at this point. You should see my school's fan board. It's basically Coach Prime Light.

Also, from a media perspective, there at least traditionally have been a lot of CU types around here over the years, and behind the scenes it is very CU homerish, which is funny because as Mile High and I have said over and over about the true interest of Front Range sports, it is the Broncos first, second, third, fourth, and beyond -- and you know the TV stations really love them too. When I was just a young cub covering the 1998 CSU-CU game at Mile High when the Rams hadn't won the game in like 15 years and blew the crap out of the Buffs, that press box was not a happy place for several CU homer TV personalities, one in particular that is still on the Denver airwaves today. I am pretty sure he almost broke a table. But he didn't cheer! On a side note, the cops tear gashed the CSU students for mostly being happy for winning that game finally, and it mostly went onto the field where players still were. That was fun.

My first full-time job was in Wyoming and it was known I went to CSU (another big rival). You better believe I was as outwardly unbiased as anyone you could ever see ever!

Anyway, I don't know. It's a show for her, right? And seriously, as big as Coach Prime has been nationwide, it is more ridiculous here. It just all sort of fits.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Once I ceased working in one-man shops, the edict from the sports editor was clear. One high school per sport was allowed to make a postseason run for the sake of something interesting to cover. Everyone else was to be eliminated as soon as possible. If you came back to the office after covering a team whose season just ended, you were feted as though you had just conquered Gaul. And woe to the writer whose team lived to fight another round.

Haha that's great, I had a similar experience during my prep days. "Teams A, B and C are out in the first round, forkin' a, we're almost done for the season!"

I see MLB beat writers acting like this now too, which I sort of find weird (if you're going to deal with eight months of the day-to-day grind, why not want a chance to write about the most important games?) but is also evidence they're not rooting for the home team, so in the end, it's a net positive?

 

[Sam Mills 51]

Hell, the local news crews in Arkansas wear shirts with their station logo on one side of the chest and a Razorback on the other.

So does the only long-time sports anchor in the market where I currently reside. His problem is he thinks he can make off with players and get post-game stuff with them before the rest of us. Um ... no.

 

[Typist Clerk]

And if they were in journalism instead of TV ... (Apologies to those here in TV).

I know I mentioned this a couple of years ago, tapping into a web replay of the late local news on the NBC affiliate in Phoenix after the Suns advanced to the NBA Finals. The news anchors wore team swag and called them "our Suns,"while the sports folks wore suits and ties and addressed the team appropriately.

Almost always, anchors are the worst.

 

[Typist Clerk]

Local TV sports news is not journalism. Romi is example 1A of that here.

Apparently not in Denver.

 

[Typist Clerk]

She's actually their top sports anchor now. I don't really mind her. Kind of like her for the most part. A lot of her socials are like this or basically promoting herself. However with this one she went pretty out there even for her.

Still, does anyone really think this hasn't happened for eons in TV? I lived and worked in Nebraska more than 20 years ago now and every TV anchor wore red. I guess it just is what it is.

I went to CSU. I don't like CU for a lot of reasons, and honestly sports just tips that iceberg (I may have touched on some of the personal element here at one point). That said, the whole freaking area is so gaga over Deion that I just roll my eyes at this point. You should see my school's fan board. It's basically Coach Prime Light.

Also, from a media perspective, there at least traditionally have been a lot of CU types around here over the years, and behind the scenes it is very CU homerish, which is funny because as Mile High and I have said over and over about the true interest of Front Range sports, it is the Broncos first, second, third, fourth, and beyond -- and you know the TV stations really love them too. When I was just a young cub covering the 1998 CSU-CU game at Mile High when the Rams hadn't won the game in like 15 years and blew the crap out of the Buffs, that press box was not a happy place for several CU homer TV personalities, one in particular that is still on the Denver airwaves today. I am pretty sure he almost broke a table. But he didn't cheer! On a side note, the cops tear gashed the CSU students for mostly being happy for winning that game finally, and it mostly went onto the field where players still were. That was fun.

My first full-time job was in Wyoming and it was known I went to CSU (another big rival). You better believe I was as outwardly unbiased as anyone you could ever see ever!

Anyway, I don't know. It's a show for her, right? And seriously, as big as Coach Prime has been nationwide, it is more ridiculous here. It just all sort of fits.

If you watch KCNC regularly, tell us if Ms. Bean covered Sanders running most of the old team off the roster, and if she did any stories on where those players went (and on those who may have stayed at Colorado).

 

[I Should Coco]

I'm going to take a slightly different approach.

When there's an upset in a primary election, an indictment of a public official or a conviction in a high-profile criminal case, do we accept or expect our local anchors to cheer or wear a pin or symbol showing their opinion?

This isn't as cut and dried of an answer as it used to be in broadcasting. A whole lot of US flag were pinned to anchors' lapels (and on newspaper mastheads, too) about 22 years ago. Quite a few cable news networks — and local Sinclair-owned TV stations — have gone all-in on the biased and opinionated reporting.

 

[Typist Clerk]

A Google search for Ms. Bean's bio comes up with this: She was a Denver Broncos cheerleader for five years while a student at Colorado-Boulder, where she majored in business management. Maybe she took a journalism clash or two on the side.