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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.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.
Last edited by The Historian; 05-07-2022 at 05:18 PM.
No one that I know in Baton Rouge is still reading the Advocate. It's turned into nothing more than a commie propaganda rag.
I'm guilty. I read Obits on line when I feel the need (to see if I'm still alive)
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 read the advocate. No idea why tbh.
Have you considered those Dogs?
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.
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.
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.
Unless you watch FOX or Newsmax you don't know what's going on nationally, or worldwide, either.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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