If there’s one thing I hate more than biased reporting, it’s factually incorrect, biased reporting. The New York Times, a newspaper that is owned by the same holding company that owns 20% of the Boston Red Sox, makes no secret of its hatred for the New York Yankees. When they write the following (below), it makes you wonder how they can get away with such blatant nonsense in print.
“For the first time in prime time, a Mets game carried by SportsNet New York had a higher rating than a Yankees broadcast on the YES Network. On Tuesday night, the Mets-Red Sox game generated a 4.7 rating, or 350,000 local television households, and the Yankees-Braves game produced a 4.1 rating (305,000 TV homes).”
Here’s the catch – while the Mets DID play in primetime last night, the Yankees played the Braves at 2 p.m. By the time regular watchers of the YES Network got home, they already knew the outcome of the game. So the Mets, who had Pedro pitching at Fenway for the first time since the 2004 ALCS, only managed to generate 45,000 more television viewers for a live game than the Yankees did for a time-condensed and edited-for-television rebroadcast.
Why do I care so much about something like this? Because I hate thinking that someone read this during breakfast and, without realizing it, started spreading lies to his or her co-workers. I guess I operate under the hackneyed pretense that all media outlets should report things as they are and not as they wish them to be.
If you ask me, the Yanks should hire me to be their media watchdog.
“For the first time in prime time, a Mets game carried by SportsNet New York had a higher rating than a Yankees broadcast on the YES Network. On Tuesday night, the Mets-Red Sox game generated a 4.7 rating, or 350,000 local television households, and the Yankees-Braves game produced a 4.1 rating (305,000 TV homes).”
Here’s the catch – while the Mets DID play in primetime last night, the Yankees played the Braves at 2 p.m. By the time regular watchers of the YES Network got home, they already knew the outcome of the game. So the Mets, who had Pedro pitching at Fenway for the first time since the 2004 ALCS, only managed to generate 45,000 more television viewers for a live game than the Yankees did for a time-condensed and edited-for-television rebroadcast.
Why do I care so much about something like this? Because I hate thinking that someone read this during breakfast and, without realizing it, started spreading lies to his or her co-workers. I guess I operate under the hackneyed pretense that all media outlets should report things as they are and not as they wish them to be.
If you ask me, the Yanks should hire me to be their media watchdog.
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