Originally Posted by rockmuncher
Hey Paul, sports coverage everywhere is like that.
Sports broadcasts are a product that is meant to draw in advertising revenue. So even here sports in Oz are tainted with a liberal dose of bias. It's not 'in-yo-face' and piled on thick like some US stuff that I've seen, but more subtly inserted between the 'neutral' commentary. Thinking about it, our guys are pretty slick in how they do it. The crafty buggers!
I think the US commentators are just more blatant about it. The british commentators (non-football) always seem pretty unbiased but that's due to a combination of years of low/no expectations and sky's (yet another rupert murdoch channel) habit of using a commentator from the opposing nation. Listening to David Campese commentating during the rugby world cup was amusing - I've never seen such a pained expression on someone's face while being forced to praise the england team
