Negative Journalism? : Sun Apr 27, 2014 8:29 pm  

Is this the worst sports performance ever? Local cricket team bowled out for just 3 RUNS http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/w ... al-3465253 Or alternatively: Is this the best sports performance ever? Local cricket team bowls out rivals for just 3 RUNS

Is this the worst sports performance ever? Local cricket team bowled out for just 3 RUNS http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/cricket/w ... al-3465253 Or alternatively: Is this the best sports performance ever? Local cricket team bowls out rivals for just 3 RUNS

Re: Negative Journalism? : Sun Apr 27, 2014 10:07 pm  

I recall some total mismatches when I was at school. Teams being bowled out for 20 and the like. But never anything as low as 3.

I also recall some football games that ended up with scores like 14-2.

Re: Negative Journalism? : Mon Apr 28, 2014 1:29 am  

Er, as the bowling was being done by (with all due respect to them) Wirral CC 1st XI, it would be a tad overexcited to advance their indisputably superb effort in Cheshire League Division 3 as "the best sports performance ever"?

The headline is arguable. Your "alternative" headline would be risible. Better than Botham's Ashes? Better than Roger Bannister's sub-4 minute mile? Better than Ovett and Coe? Better than Tiger Woods at Augusta in 1997 winning the Masters by 12 shots, on -18? Or Usain Bolt running 100 metres in 9.58 seconds?

Or Queensland's 1994 last second Origin comeback (the miracle try) which you can view on a certain tube under
/watch?v=f0YDW-_kIGM

Nah.

Re: Negative Journalism? : Mon Apr 28, 2014 7:53 pm  

Ferocious Aardvark wrote:

Er, as the bowling was being done by (with all due respect to them) Wirral CC 1st XI, it would be a tad overexcited to advance their indisputably superb effort in Cheshire League Division 3 as "the best sports performance ever"?

The headline is arguable. Your "alternative" headline would be risible. Better than Botham's Ashes? Better than Roger Bannister's sub-4 minute mile? Better than Ovett and Coe? Better than Tiger Woods at Augusta in 1997 winning the Masters by 12 shots, on -18? Or Usain Bolt running 100 metres in 9.58 seconds?

Or Queensland's 1994 last second Origin comeback (the miracle try) which you can view on a certain tube under
/watch?v=f0YDW-_kIGM

Nah.

Fair enough of course. But The Mirror could have put a positive slant on it. I'm just suggesting that their journalistic minds tend to "accentuate the negative" whenever it suits them.