Rugby Research Paper
Rugby in the media
Saturday night, the nation is huddled around the television the computer or any electronic device they can get their hands on. As the national anthem plays 23 men all clad in black stand proudly while another 23 dressed in yellow stand silently just metres apart, the silence is broken as wild cheers go up as the men in black start the Haka as their opponents stand with expressionless faces. Similar scenes are happening on the channel over but these men are dresses in white the silver fern still adorns their chest, the captains come to together and flip a coin and there's silent anticipated as he taps his bat on the ground and steps up to the crease.
Rugby and Cricket are New Zealand's two largest sports and they are two …show more content…
The All Blacks, the Black Caps and the Silver Ferns the three big names in New Zealand sport and everyone knows it, they dominate our screens. "Breaking All Blacks squad named" or " Breaking Black Caps score 245 for 4" headlines like these plaster our news agency's screens and the Tv is no better, Sky Sport 1 - Rugby, Sky Sport 2 - league, Sky Sport 3 - Cricket, Sky Sport 4 if your lucky is maybe golf. With our screens plastered with the "big" sports what happened to the smaller ones, ones people may like watching more than rugby but can't because in New Zealand the range of sport to watch is very limited.
New Zealand has a huge range of sports of which we have national teams and if not a team, people representing New Zealand and to me it seems unfair because they are not considered a "big" sport we can't watch and enjoy them. Sky or the media arnt solely responsible for this as the "big 3" are the most popular sorts but the way that they make them dominate our screens and our headlines is their doing. Do media outlets and broadcaster not have a responsibility to broadcast and report fairly and unbiasedly on all sports. The fix is simple of …show more content…
Every athlete who competes at a national level has to be good they all have to go through rigorous selection processes, so why should European rugby be prioritised over sports that our athletes are competing in? To me this seems unfair and the media need to start noticing and reporting on all the other sports that we compete in, in success or failure because they have earnt their position and don't deserve to be ignored because they don't qualify as a "big"
Saturday night, the nation is huddled around the television the computer or any electronic device they can get their hands on. As the national anthem plays 23 men all clad in black stand proudly while another 23 dressed in yellow stand silently just metres apart, the silence is broken as wild cheers go up as the men in black start the Haka as their opponents stand with expressionless faces. Similar scenes are happening on the channel over but these men are dresses in white the silver fern still adorns their chest, the captains come to together and flip a coin and there's silent anticipated as he taps his bat on the ground and steps up to the crease.
Rugby and Cricket are New Zealand's two largest sports and they are two …show more content…
The All Blacks, the Black Caps and the Silver Ferns the three big names in New Zealand sport and everyone knows it, they dominate our screens. "Breaking All Blacks squad named" or " Breaking Black Caps score 245 for 4" headlines like these plaster our news agency's screens and the Tv is no better, Sky Sport 1 - Rugby, Sky Sport 2 - league, Sky Sport 3 - Cricket, Sky Sport 4 if your lucky is maybe golf. With our screens plastered with the "big" sports what happened to the smaller ones, ones people may like watching more than rugby but can't because in New Zealand the range of sport to watch is very limited.
New Zealand has a huge range of sports of which we have national teams and if not a team, people representing New Zealand and to me it seems unfair because they are not considered a "big" sport we can't watch and enjoy them. Sky or the media arnt solely responsible for this as the "big 3" are the most popular sorts but the way that they make them dominate our screens and our headlines is their doing. Do media outlets and broadcaster not have a responsibility to broadcast and report fairly and unbiasedly on all sports. The fix is simple of …show more content…
Every athlete who competes at a national level has to be good they all have to go through rigorous selection processes, so why should European rugby be prioritised over sports that our athletes are competing in? To me this seems unfair and the media need to start noticing and reporting on all the other sports that we compete in, in success or failure because they have earnt their position and don't deserve to be ignored because they don't qualify as a "big"