Negative Media

So following up on my comment from the previous post about the media painting the Cowboys in a negative light.....

As I watched coverage of training camp by ESPN and particularly NFL network yesterday, I couldn't help but notice the disdain and disrespect by which all of the coverage and interviews were done when it came to the Cowboys.  Then with other teams, they treated the player being interviewed or the coverage with respect and straight coverage.  I'll give a couple of examples to make my point....

• NFL Network - while camera was in studio with a live video feed of the Cowboys practicing in the background in pads but with no helmets.....NFL commentator said "I thought they were supposed to be in pads, but they don't have any helmets....where's there helmets....(another commentator interjected).... Yeah where's that Star.... in a very derogatory voice.

• NFL Network - about to go live to Michael Irvin in Oxnard California to Cowboys Training Camp, Rich Eisen says...."Cowboys have been in Oxnard for Training Camp now for several years, I'm surprised they haven't got a sponsor contract for naming rights for the field"...... again done in a very derogatory voice.  

Really?!  Oh yeah, last I checked Cowboys Stadium is just Cowboys Stadium (I know this is about to change soon).  Not like the 49ers and every other team that sells the naming rights to the stadium.  From Eisen's comment, you would think the Cowboys are the only team to generate revenue from sponsorships.  Really?!  Then immediately following this snide comment, the NFL cameras show the Eagles at "Novacare" Practice Field.  But nay, not one comment from Rich Eisen.  What's the deal?!  What does he have against the Cowboys?

• NFL Network - The big eared guy for NFL network while interviewing Witten.... "So in Jason Garrett's team speech video, he said the team needs leaders.  Was he calling you guys out, because you don't have leaders on the team?"  

Really?!  Every coach in the NFL talks about leaders on the team and in opening speeches to the team for the year.  And the big eared guy has to turn it around and make it sound like the coach is calling guys out for not being a leader, on day one of training camp before any work is even completed.
Really?!

So why the constant negative bias against a team that hasn't even been relevant (one playoff win in 15 years)?

Open Letter to Peter King

Dear Mr. King,

I read a line recently from one of your columns talking about how great the new San Francisco stadium was going to be.  This made me remember how you went ~ 2 years before ever visiting Cowboys Stadium, but immediately criticized the location of the stadium not being in Dallas, but in Arlington, TX (20 miles away).  Then to my surprise you talk about how great it is that the new San Francisco Stadium is away from downtown San Francisco (45 miles away).  Of course you throw in the obligatory "it has a train to the stadium”.  My question is...how you can be considered a good Football analyst, as others in the media proclaim, when you have such a negative bias against the great state of Texas and the Dallas Cowboys in particular?

Then I read today where the 49ers have already sold the naming rights of the new stadium (which is not even built) to Levi.  So it's going to be "Levi’s Stadium"...LMAO.

Since you have such disdain for the Cowboys, I will probably have to remind you that Jerry Jones has never sold the rights to the great "COWBOYS STADIUM".  In today's world of corporate greed, which is obviously on display with Levi’s Stadium...LOL (sorry just can't help but laugh as I write that name), why don't you write an article, or at least one sentence, in one of your many musings about how Jerry and the Cowboys have remained true and not sold out to a corporate sponsor for Cowboys Stadium?

This is a rhetorical question of course, because everyone knows the answer, "You hate the Cowboys, and continually provide a horrible bias against them with everything you write."  However, I would love to hear YOUR response to this question.