COMMENTARY FOR WEDNESDAY 8TH NOVEMBER, 2006

CARIBBEAN MEDIA FOOLED WEST INDIES PUBLIC

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What is the role of the media in Sport?

As we stated four (4) months ago when I95.5 FM was the only local media that covered the Stanford 20/20 Tournament, it seems there is no change to the neglect of Sport.

 

Do you know, that no Caribbean Media person apart from Television Commentators (Jeffrey Dujon and Ian Bishop) were in India working for an international media orgainisation.

 

Is it that the Caribbean has no one qualified for this job?

Are our Sports Journalists of such poor quality?

Or, is it that the Editors and Programme Managers all over the Caribbean do not care enough about Sport?

Are our Sport Journalists voices so timid and weak?

 

The West Indies were the defending Champions, and we had to tolerate International reports from International writers.

We should have received, the Caribbean perspective, with insights on the team.

How must the West Indies players have felt to know, there were no familiar faces at Press Conferences.

Shame on all media in the region.

Even the Caribbean Media Corporation, resorted to live Radio Commentary from a Barbados Studio, via a wide screen television.

So those Commentators were not in India as many may have believed.

 

I wonder if the “Advertisers” were told this, and I wonder if the rate of charge by the various Radio frequencies were reduced because the Commentary team were using a television instead of being there “live” in India.

 

I hope  there was no –false pretensions- in all of this.

Even in Trinidad and Tobago, one young boxer has stated, her retirement from the Sport is because of the media.  She would not make that comment unless the media coverage has hurt her.

It is time to change the second class treatment to Sport in the Caribbean.