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The Baton Rouge Advocate combined with its affiliate in New Orleans covers two thirds or more of the population in Louisiana yet wont even print a La Tech score unless it involves a Sunbelt or state school south of Alexandria. It seems that La Tech doesnt even exist and to me that is a big hurdle.
Stop reading newspapers on line or otherwise…horrible source for what they actually report.
It's been that way for sports other than football for a little more than a decade.Quote:
Originally Posted by Exes&Ohs
It's also been that way for about a decade for the TV stations in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. No coverage outside of football for McNeese, NSU, Tech, and ULM. And they barely cover football for those schools. It went from state coverage to coverage of southeast Louisiana plus the Acadiana area, as the Advocate has an Acadiana edition (and has since the 70s).
It all started with the resurgence of Nichols, SLU, and to some extent UNO. That led to more coverage for those schools. There is also more coverage for the NAIA schools like Loyola, Xavier, and Dillard. Finally, the prep coverage by the TVs is as good or better than its ever been.
No one that I know in Baton Rouge is still reading the Advocate. It's turned into nothing more than a commie propaganda rag.
brtransplant--how are you sir? Hope well! My brother and spouse still live there(retired)...dang, they read that thing cover to cover...and one of them is ultra to the right...so, I don't know...maybe they just like reading:)....but, like most news print, media in general, it's propaganda....
I'm guilty. I read Obits on line when I feel the need (to see if I'm still alive):o:DQuote:
Originally Posted by brtransplant
I read the advocate. No idea why tbh.
My gripe is far more about the radio media. Its split about 80/20 LSU and Saints with no time left for anything else. I wish north Louisiana sports radio would buy into their local programs half as much as br media buys into LSU.
Some donors should bankroll some media programs in North Louisiana just for Tech and maybe a bit of other teams like Grambling, ULM, and Northwestern.Quote:
Originally Posted by odysseus
I’m just not sure how many Tech consumers there are out there.
On a tangent, I love following university sports accounts on Twitter. The interaction on Twitter surrounding Tech athletics seems much more quiet than other schools. I’m frequently tempted to stir it up on USM Twitter but can’t as we live in Hattiesburg and can’t run the risk of pissing folks off.
I like the title of this thread.
I'm disappinted and frustrated with my last visit to Sam's. Lots of elessewe, grumbling, and nlulm junk. Zero Tech.
I've said before and I'll say again our licensing department is tight as Dick's Hatband . . . or we got some store buyers who are effing clueless when they go to market.
The licensing department should have our bright marketing students conduct that survey on disposal income of Tech graduates in the state of Louisiana (compared to the above named institutions), and shove it down some store managers throats. At WM Academy the above three have all kinds of gear beginning in October of the fourthquarter and by Black Friday the Tech gear inventory has dwindled.
Disappointing.
Frustrating.
It pains me to write this but it's the truth. Approximately 8 years ago I spoke with someone that made custom items they sold online. Very high end/quality. I asked them why, as a Louisiana Tech graduate, don't they have any Louisiana Tech branded/designed items... They had many other major schools from the SEC and other notable conferences. Their response, "It's the craziest thing, of all the schools Louisiana Tech has been the most difficult to obtain rights. Why they don't want their brand out there like the other schools is beyond me. Getting the licensing for the big schools was so much easier than Louisiana Tech, which I hope to obtain in the next several months."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Managed_declineQuote:
Originally Posted by DawgBark
It's kinda sorta like shot glasses (empty ;)) a couple of years ago . . . Tech said they would never brand license anything alcohol-related. WHO is making this call?Quote:
Originally Posted by DawgBark
Whoever it is needs some 20th century business training. Victorian Era business practices and decisions haven't worked in a long, long time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
I guess that's the same reason you can't find any team accurate jerseys anymore. It's all this design that looks nothing like the game day stuff
I know why I do. I am increasingly a big proponent of local press just like I am a big proponent of local government. I read the Livingston Parish News and, less so, the Advocate but I do read it because it has impact in my life. I also have solid relationships with some of the reporters in both papers. When I was a kid we got a daily dose of news from a local paper in the AM, national news at 530. Local news at 6pm and 10pm.Quote:
Originally Posted by boxerdog
I don't know where most folks get their news these days but I am willing to bet the balance of local news is significantly lower in most peoples lives.
I think the old order of news balance was more appropriate because I think the whole focus of our lives should be more towards our neighbor and less towards the power players in Washington.
Interesting. I think about this often and got my news just like you for many years as an adult.Quote:
Originally Posted by weunice
Gannett is just horrible and I refuse to read anything they still have an affiliation with.
Balance? I don't worry about balance. I gave up on that as a young person when I realized how much the media favored the left...yes, it was that way back then. The nearest thing we had to balance when I was a young working guy was, Paul Harvey, CNN, and The Wall Street Journal.
Now days if we genuinely care for our neighbors and try to help them as we should, we are shouted down as "ultra, maga, right wing, Christian fanatics."
I guess we're getting a bit derailed here but you brought up an interesting thought I had the other day. We are organized into states (and somewhat territories) by the constitution. We elect a governor, senators and electors by state-wide votes yet we don't have statewide news. If we are going to have state-wide voting, it seems odd that our news is basically only regional (local TV news or local papers) or national. We are electing officials for our whole state and we really don't know what's happening in the other parts of the state.Quote:
Originally Posted by weunice
Unless you watch FOX or Newsmax you don't know what's going on nationally, or worldwide, either.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgonit
I suspect this "ignorance is bliss" media approach is by design. Keep 'em in the dark, they say, the masses don't know what's good for them. Only we libtard "elites" know what's best for the people.
News isn't just cable news channels. There are many newspapers and news websites, and they focus on national news. There are also many reputable worldwide news organizations that can be accessed inside the US that focus on worldwide news.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
It's all besides the point I was making though. If we are grouped together as a state politically, shouldn't we be exposed more to events in all parts of the state?
Cable news channels are more about entertainment than news I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgonit
The issue with state news coverage on the whole is that all of our states are different sizes. The paper I grew up reading covered state-wide news pretty well I think. Had a national section and a state section. But covering all of Arkansas is doable both in geography and population and to some degree in relevance to people across the state. But Texas is bigger and more populated than lots of whole countries. And all the news for New Hampshire or Rhode Island is just going to feel like "local" news anyway.
certainly not perfect, but pretty good job of statewide coverageQuote:
Originally Posted by Dawgonit
http://www.thedeadpelican.com/
I don't agree it is "besides the point," it is exactly the point! Those in control of the state political parties control the media and can then manipulate regions of the state as it affects statewide elections. You are correct to point out the "fog" that exists between areas of the state and I am saying that is done on purpose for political reasons.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgonit
subscribe to lincolnparishjournal.com for decent local sports coverage. Recent stories by Scott Boatright, Malcolm Butler, Kyle Roberts, Teddy Allen, all who love Tech athletics. Delivered by email free of charge every morning Monday-Friday. https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/q58xcaB/lpjjoin
I get the free online Shreveport Bossier Journal. Email comes a couple times a week with links to articles, many about Tech, LSUS, and other local schools. They had some good articles during the Tech baseball season.
A BBB voyeur updated my info for me. The no-alcohol Tech stuff was a Reneau era policy. Things have loosened up with the current 16th floor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgpix
Our licensing requests, though, are done via incoming email requests mainly. No funding to step out the door to meet with retailers, etc.