Right on Picker! Objective reporting from the media just isn't there. It's what the media likes or wants a team to be. Useless to readers and viewers alike. Then we wonder why a team doesn't play as well or is better than thought.

It's not just an Oklahoma thing... I mean... Have you READ Kirk Bohls?!

"Journalism" is no more, what with TV (moving pictures required with voice over description, not talking heads), the internet (blather, blather) and print media pert near gone. I remember reading Bill Connors, Dick Young, Shirley Povich, et al eons ago and ralizing that the "great ones" rarely knew anything about the actual sports they were covering relying instead on yelping their own biases and prejudices and reducing team sports and games to wild personality sketches. Every single one of them butt kissed owners, head coaches, etc because that kept alive their avenue to locker rooms, airplane rides, hotel rooms and meals. Freeloaders, in general. Modern day "homers" are sort of like Fox 'News", identifying a market, i.e. "OU Fans, etc." then telling them what they want to hear.

National media types and media types from other markets all believe Oklahoma may have the biggest homer media when it comes to OU, that's a fact. Don't try to compare OK media to anyone anywhere else.

The state's largest newspaper (which is tied to your newspaper and several radio and television stations) is owned by the Gaylord Family, who just happen to have a football stadium in Norman named after them.

Conflict of interest much?

Good call, Picker. Do we want objective reporting or do we want our media to serve as an organ for hyping our favorite teams? Once started, that's a slippery slope.

As a fan, I would hope for a little bit of honesty in reporting. But I admit I do enjoy hearing the positives rather than a constant harping on how the college kids in the secondary are so slow they can't catch a parked car.

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OSU? LOL