DMN shows true burnt orange colors

[mr. pony]

Today's coverage includes Highs and Lows of the game - and they're all from UT's perspective!
busted!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... e1929.html

[jtstang]

From whose perspective do you suggest the Dallas paper write about highs and lows, the average Birmingham resident's?

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

It should be written from the perspective of a city with no horse in the race.

[George S. Patton]

Today's coverage includes Highs and Lows of the game - and they're all from UT's perspective!
busted!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... e1929.html

I can't even believe you would seek out something like this to attempt to prove how much bias is in this for Texas and writing for a predominantly Texas audience. You're hatred for Texas just devours you and you don't even know it.

Pull your head out.

It's a Texas team being covered by a Texas media outlet. Oh, and here's some breaking news....I betcha the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express News covered the NC game from the Texas perspective.

I don't think the Birmingham News or Mobile paper covered last night's game from the Texas perspective.

And as for a city with no horse in the race, tell that to the six-figure UT alums that live in this area.

Unbelievable novice perspective...to the point that it's nonsense.

[MrMustang1965]

Don't forget. The DMN is owned by the BEVO Corporation.

[mr. pony]

Today's coverage includes Highs and Lows of the game - and they're all from UT's perspective!
busted!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... e1929.html

I can't even believe you would seek out something like this to attempt to prove how much bias is in this for Texas and writing for a predominantly Texas audience. You're hatred for Texas just devours you and you don't even know it.

Pull your head out.

It's a Texas team being covered by a Texas media outlet. Oh, and here's some breaking news....I betcha the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express News covered the NC game from the Texas perspective.

I don't think the Birmingham News or Mobile paper covered last night's game from the Texas perspective.

And as for a city with no horse in the race, tell that to the six-figure UT alums that live in this area.

Unbelievable novice perspective.

Oh, please. Sports reporters always piously remind all who will listen that they are objective and are so very careful not to comment positively either way when covering a game.

Cheering is not even allowed in press boxes - and it's looked down on by every reporter.
Kate mentions it all the time: oh, I mustn't appear biased, etc......

You don't know what you're talking about, Private.

The proper journalistic approach would have been for the DMN to note these as "Turning Points" in the game rather than "Highs and Lows." Kate probably didn't title the piece, but some UT homer editor.

It's in fact unprofessional bias. Freiburger's right: It should be covered from the perspective a town with no horse in the race.

[EastStang]

While I felt sorry for McCoy, I can't say I was unhappy to see Texas lose. As an older alum, I learned to passionately dislike UT, and I can't say that I grew to love them for throwing us, Rice, TCU and Houston under the bus when the Big 8 came calling. Bama played a great game even though they tried to go into turtle mode way too early. UT had a great season, but lost to a great team. Congrats to the Tide.

[jtstang]

Oh for godsake. The columnists (I assume that is to whom you are referring) are not reporters, and get paid to write opinion pieces. The fact that they write to their audience is a quality of a good writer. Anybody hired to be a columnist that wrote an opinion piece with no opinion would be fired.

[Longtime]

It's not biased to serve your readership, which is predominantly UT fans. Get a grip.

Cheering in the pressbox is not the same as writing a game analysis from a UT perspective. It's not biased reporting to describe the UT team's highs and lows in the game, although it probably should have been more accurately labeled "Longhorns Highs and Lows."

You want them to stop writing analyzing Cowboys games from a Dallas perspective because the team plays in Arlington now?

Pointing out tiny details like "Highs and Lows" doesn't make the DMN look biased, it only makes SMU fans look jealous and whiny. Pick better battles.

[George S. Patton]

Ok, Mr. Pony if we go with your thought about no horse in the race, then since the University of Alabama is in Tuscaloosa, then the Birmingham News (haven't read their coverage) probably should have taken the same approach as you''re suggesting the DMN should? That would be pretty stupid.

Can you prove those headlines and whatnot were written by UT homers? And as a reporter, you also know that the first rule in being a journalist is asking the question, "How do you know that?" So you better be careful what you're surmizing.

BTW, were you in the press box last night to know if any Texas media members were jumping up and down and acting pro or con about the game?

And don't tell me you haven't been in that SMU press box showing complete neutrality. I betcha you slipped just a bit with a comment or slight fist pump.

And go back to last year. Think the DMN wrote the national title game between Oklahoma and Florida from the Florida persepctive? Unlikely. OU is in the DMN's coverage region. Think they had more from the Sooner Nation. But you're welcomed to look that up and prove me otherwise.

You're making some accusations that need to be verified and not presumed to be fact just because you think you know.

Highs and Lows -- Didn't read it but usually there is reporting mixed in with some analysis. You are absolutely reaching.

At one time, the DMN had a beat writer covering Texas (Chip Brown), A&M (Al Carter and then Rachel Cohen) and Texas Tech (Brian Davis) and all of those stories back then were written from those schools perspective. They were appealing to the large alumni base of the schools here.

Even though their college coverage has been diminished by reduction in staff, it still doesn't mean their prespective has changed on how to cover TEXAS teams.

Kate likely goes into every SMU story about the SMU take on that scenario. Do we want to read what Nevada's take on 45-10 was?

It's all about the audience you are writing for. The DMN knows there is a huge alumni base here. The DMN knows it is writing for that base.

Your problem is that you hate Texas so much that you're allowing your bias influence how you perceive UT's coverage.

[MrMustang1965]

General: please learn the proper usage of the words "you're" and "your" before critiquing journalism. Thank you.

[George S. Patton]

No reporter has ever had a typo in a story? Shocking...

[MrMustang1965]

No reporter has ever had a typo in a story? Shocking...

Reporters sometimes do. That's why editors exist.
However, what you did is not a typo (misspelled word). It's a grammatical error.

[jtstang]

No reporter has ever had a typo in a story? Shocking...

Reporters sometimes do. That's why editors exist.
However, what you did is not a typo (misspelled word). It's a grammatical error.

Heaven forbid we should go back and scrutinize your posts. Manifesto anyone?

[Silk]

DFFH is right, and I'll take it one step further. Let's say the DMN is located in the same city as UT (which, of course, it often feels like). Even then, the job of the paper — or any other media outlet — is to report what happened. Referring to "highs" and "lows" indicates that the paper itself had a vested interest in the outcome. Many of us have long felt the DMN openly roots for UT. This shows that if the company on the whole doesn't, at least some editors sure do.