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Originally Posted by Tom S.
They can re-name it whatever they want...I still call it Comiskey Park.  |
So, sports fans on radio/internet are generally very touchy and willing to jump down your throat about any factual error. Like begging to argue. However when I post New Shea or New Comiskey or Giants Stadium, I find that's the one factual error they let slde. Nobody wants to play the role of corporate schill. on a scale od 1 to Darren Rovell on the corporate shill list, people are way closer to 1.
I never understood why broadcasters felt the need to parrot the corproate name, unless they had league or team broadcast right and had to. But Channel 8 doing a recap doesn't need to, unless they want to follow the letter of the law for factual journalism, which is like arresting Al Capone cor tax evasion at this stage with the modern media's current exhibition of proper ethics of journalism.
There was a crazy dude I used to work with -- Chris Thomas at WFLA-- who was the only guy I knew way back in 1997 that flipped the bird to this stuff. Undortunately, he is dead now.