Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Did the media make more people tune in to watch the Union friendlies than who bothered to watch the RLWC Quarter final featuring England?'"
Simple answer...yes....its called publicity.
Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Did the 1.2 million who tuned into SKY for the England v All blacks secretly want to join the 260,000 who watched the SL GF but were kept away by the media?'"
eh? England didn't play the All Blacks on the night of the Grand Final did they?
Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Do the BBC report a 4,500,000 average across all 15 6 nations games simply to highlight the chasm in public interest or is that again more media bias?'"
If its on..People watch it.....the more you put on...the more they watch it...especially blanket coverage at peak times on BBC 1...backed up with pages and pages of publicity in the broadsheets and tabloids....that isn't rocket science is it.
Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"Do the Editors of the UK papers say "sod it" and print less league than union, not caring about the potential loss of sales as a result?'"
No actually what they do say is..I don't want any of that northern 3 in my paper....none of them wear the right school tie.
Quote gutterfax="gutterfax"The lead RL story on the BBC is not a good news story......was it the IRB that done it?'"
not sure what your point is here? The fact that a badly run club is in administration or the fact that the BBC chose to cover it....both are true. Good news, bad news whatever...just make sure its reported fairly and proportionally.
RL does not get a fair crack at the media circus....thats the choice of the biased people that run the media.
If Sale RU were playing Newcastle RU in the Premiership final at Twickenham on the same day Wigan played Leeds in the challenge cup final...who gets most coverage? Based on what?
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