Boston media is the worst.

[Slagathor]

In my opinion, the Boston sports media covering the Pats is absolutely the worst in the country.

The Herald and Globe are filled with Patriots contrarians who really don't know the game as well as they think they do. It really ticks me off.

Look at a guy like Woody Paige for example. As annoying as he may be, you gotta admire his unwavering love for the Broncos. His opinion of them usually has an honest positive spin. Same thing with the Pittsburgh beat writer on EEI yesterday. I've heard him before and he's a very fair, very knowledgable scribe.

Who do we have? Felger? The guy could honestly care less about the Pats at any local/personal level. He'll wax ecstatic about the Packers though.

Borges? Does anything really need to be said?

Cafardo? A graduate of the Borges School of Negative/Bitter Journalism.

I know a lot of these guys are upset because of the limited access they have to the team.

But is throwing constant negativity and criticism at Belichick the right way to deal with it? As a human being, it makes more sense to be straight and honest to win someone's favor. Look at the access Holley got for his book.

I'm not looking for a RAH-RAH!!!-Go Pats! type of guy to cover the team. I'm just looking for less bias of a negative nature which seems to be in vogue with these scribes.

Does anyone else believe that a team who's had as much success as the Pats deserve the disproportionate amount of negativity and criticism that get's thrown their way?

Just think how much more valuable info could be uncovered by the media if they spent less time looking for "dirt" and more time concentrating on the true composition of the team.

 

[Hoodie]

Carfardo's article today was annoying.

• "Are holdouts going to happen every year?"
• " Holdouts are the only way for players to get the Pats attention"
• "We want to know how the Pats will handle it."
• "The other players have been programmed to respond and can't so their support."

Yes, holdouts will happen every year. Not just for the Pats but for every team. As for how the Pats handle it -- internally not in the media, just they way they did with Richard. I guess Cafardo would rather have Brady calling out Branch the way Lord Favre did with Javon Walker.

 

[5 Rings for Brady!!]

I agree that the media has an axe to grind, but they do go pretty far in depth compared to some media thru the country. I live in Virginia, where all the coverage of the Skins is ultra positive and shallow. Yes, Boston is a tough media town, but at least they cover mini camp and such. You can sift thru negative garbage and still find some nuggets, almost like looking thru dogcrap when your dog swallows the car keys.

But, sure, the media sucks in Boston, Big Time!

 

[Pats726]

Most of the media is pretty bad....But there is Mike Reiss who is totally on top of things..as wellas Projo's Tom Curran. They are the ones that are the best writers...I agree..all the others can go down the drain....I had hoped for felger, but he took the negativity road and is whiny and shows a laclk of undesrtanding about football. Yes..the media in Boston is VERY baseball oriented..and what they call football writers don't make the cut..and that is in general. One would think better writers..but instead turds.

 

[patchick]

In my opinion, the Boston sports media covering the Pats is absolutely the worst in the country.

I'm curious where you're comparing to. I lived in San Francisco and New York before coming here, and traveled the country a lot on business. When I moved to Boston I found the sports coverage to be uncommonly strong and thorough. We can all grit our teeth at articles or broadcasters we don't like, but overall this area is a sports media haven.

 

[5 Rings for Brady!!]

Patchick: That was sort of what I was trying to say, although the media sure are a bunch of pricks! But Reiss, Curran, and some blogs are pretty good compared to clueless homers in other parts of the country. At least there is some choice.

After reading Felger and Carfado today, though, I do think there are a lot of jerks around Boston who almost want the team to fail so they can say 'Told You So'!

On Ryan Claridge: So far, he has been working at outside linebacker and seen plenty of reps. Maybe he can pass rush some!

 

[QuiGon]

Personally, if I want to read intelligent and insightful news and commentary about the New England Patriots I will head to this bulletin board before any newspaper. The people who are lucky enough to write about the Patriots for a living have demonstrated time and again that they are neither more knowledgeable nor more insightful than most of the posters on this board.

 

[Sean Pa Patriot]

Mike Reiss , Tom Curren are good.. Felger was ok, but he is going a little to hollywood.. Paul Perillo from PFW, is a good, he should be at the Herald, but they have that John Tomosse, the wantabee red sox writer, but has to write about the Pats...

 

[PonyExpress]

If we have to parse texts, read between the lines, analyze compromised principles and sort through degrees of misinformation on the sports page, can you imagine the sewer of compromised principles on the front page? Mindboggling.

 

[patsox23]

Woody Paige is worse than ANYTHING in Boston. "Loving" the team isn't journalism.

 

[5 Rings for Brady!!]

Perhaps the funniest thing I ever saw on Around The Horn was when Charles Weis got the N.D. job. The whole show, Woody Paige kept trying to interrupt every topic to make a stupid point about Weis's hair cut being all wrong, and a clear indication that he would never make it at N.D.

He lost in the first round with like -5 points, and when asked for any final words, he tried to make his point again about Weis's haircut, but he got instantly muted so he just made faces at the camera.

I don't happen to consider him very insightful. He also kept claiming the Broncos would 'run the table' when they had Plummer for the first time.

 

[Kdo5]

A positive writer is a lot more interesting to read then a lame negative one. That is why Reiss is about 100 times better than these other globe idiots. He has good stuff that he posts in his blog. I'd rather see his info then continious negative opinions from Borges.

 

[cstjohn17]

I think we are lucky to have the vast number of information sources. Not all of it is good and after you read articles from the various sources you begin to get a sense of where each person is coming from. Individual bias can be factored into the analysis as the articles are read. Some writers know football, some don't, some are homers some are not. A wide spectrum to be sure.

If you combine the local reports with national articles pretty much all the bases are covered. For off the wall topics forums like this are great.

Good, bad, indifferent. I love it all, Go Pats,

 

[Hoodie]

If we have to parse texts, read between the lines, analyze compromised principles and sort through degrees of misinformation on the sports page, can you imagine the sewer of compromised principles on the front page? Mindboggling.

You are so right. There's no such thing as journalistic integrity anymore, because they are all so busy trying to break the story and fill 24 hours that it no longer matters whether it's unbiased or even factually correct.

Also I disagree with whoever said Reiss was positive. I think he's terrific but overall pretty neutral. He provides info, gives observations and breaks stuff ALL THE TIME. But I don't think he's a homer, he's just not negative.