My Thoughts

[harveybirdman]

If I may offer a rebuttal...

As much as I am disgusted with big market teams, let's not forget what the bottom line is for any network or any business for that matter, revenue.

In this case it's about ratings, and therefore advertising revenue. It's about clicks, attention, scoops, re-packaging expert, player, coach and fan dialogue in a medium to be quickly digested by the masses.

They aren't in the business of making art, although I'm sure there are a myriad of examples where it happens as a natural by-product.

Bottom line is you must accept certain truths about being in a small market, and take the good with the bad. And while slant is obvious in many an "expert" analysis it's hardly as sharp on mean spirited as some make it out to be, if at all.