How Channel 4 tries to twist BB's words
 

Already Patriots All Access is creating a stir...AT LEAST in some eyes at ch 4...They ARE trying to make a big deal out of NOTHING...Coach B said that it would be a hostile environment in NY when they played the Jets...saying that is the opposite of how it was against Cinci last week. Somehow THAT is an affront to fans...HUH????????? These idiots at 4 can't even understand that OF COURSE it would be the opposite playing an opponent with the crowd. hostile. TALK about digging for something that isn't there......
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Re: How Channel 4 tries to twist BB's words
 

In all fairness, they could just be incredibly stupid. Lately I'm beginning to think the media are not malicious so much as "speshul" people who ride a different bus to work.

How Channel 4 tries to twist BB's words
 

Sports departments of local news stations tend to not be the brightest folk. This is a total lack of comprehension. Just like after Bradys accident they had 7 reporters all in individual little windows on screen. 4 of them with Gillette Stadium as the background, which made it easy to tell they were each like 5 feet from each other. Their all wannabe actors... Not sports people.

Re: How Channel 4 tries to twist BB's words
 

You can lay the blame squarely with the TV executives who, beginning in the 80's shifted their news departments into their entertainment divisions. It's been pretty much a predictable decline in actual reporting, with the resulting increase in presentation values.

What a lot of folks do not understand is that Television networks, like Radio and print media are designed to do one thing: Sell Advertising. That's where the money is. News media exists to make money, and the absolute lion's share of that money comes through advertising dollars. Subscription fees normally pull in maybe 2% or revenue at best.

How do they get people and, especially, corporations and other businesses to buy advertising? By showing a large number of readers, and other demographics. More bang for the advertiser's bucks.

They get people to WATCH and buy and listen to them by running sensational stories and by generating conflict. Conflict makes people take sides, and start talking about the stories, and THAT gets the news sources mentioned, and THAT sells advertising.

Anyway, the point is that you should always get your news from a variety of sources and compare the stories. Do your homework and understand that the reporters are there to create controversy. If they can slant, spin or nuance what someone says to make the story more salacious, they will. Every. Single. Time.

respects,

Re: How Channel 4 tries to twist BB's words
 

I tend to think this was NOT the sports department that did this..IF it was..they are MIGHTY dumb.....I agree they wish to create controversy and conflict BUT to me THIS station owed Coach B an apology...and the sooner the better!!!!
I was having breakfast when I first saw this...and I wondered OK what did he say?? WHat did he say that was a DIG against fans...I listened and heard this story 3 times..complete with a smiling newsman reading canned words...There was NOTHING that Bill said that was an issue at all...SHAME on channel 4 for their stupidity!!!!!

Belichick took a minor swipe at Pats fans too.
 

Last night I was watching the Channel 4 news on channel 38 at 09:00 pm.

They showed a clip of the Patriots All Access show from this week.
Beliichik was talking about how loud it was going to be at the new
stadium this week.

He then said.... It will not be anything like last weeks games against the
Bengals.

Re: Belichick took a minor swipe at Pats fans too.
 

Pats fans that go to the games are really getting their money's worth this week. I wish I lived near Foxboro and had the dough to go to the games. I'd be hoarse week in and week out. However, I don't live in Foxboro and I definitely don't have the credit to take out the mortgage payment it would take to go to the games.

Re: Belichick took a minor swipe at Pats fans too.
 

And he is correct.

Re: Belichick took a minor swipe at Pats fans too.
 

Sorry mods... I did not see the following post on the same subject until
after I made my post.

Feel free to merge them.

http://www.patsfans.com/new-england-...bbs-words.html

Re: Belichick took a minor swipe at Pats fans too.
 

Your right..... but feel free to give Kraft a little credit for the noise level.

His stadium is open at both ends, which I am told does not help the
noise level.

The club seats ticket holders can go "in side" which leaves a lot of
empty seats.

Empty seats don't make much noise.

I stay to the end of the games, but I don't test my vocal cords when
we have a 21 point lead.

I yell plenty when it matters.