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MichiganBowling

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Integrity in the Media
« on: June 22, 2005, 04:22:02 PM »
Ok, first I'll ask a question, then of course I'll give my opinion about it all.  haha.  It just wouldn't be a MichiganBowling post without my loud mouthed opinion!!!

What does your town, association, or bowling center do in the form of a newsletter, articles, or scores reporting?  Does your local newspaper have a bowling section weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, daily?

Here in the Flint, Michigan area, the Flint Journal has a Sunday section where they put all of the big scores from around the area.  Usually 250 and up for men, 200 and up for women, and they'll cover some of the award scores that happen each week.  We also have a publication called the 11th Frame which is run by the bowling editor's wife, so it has a lot of the same info as the Flint Journal with a few more articles and ads.

MY OPINION:  I think we need more control over the media.  All of these high scores are thrown in there all of the time, but why not the standings of a classic bowling league?  I hardly ever see any real PBA coverage in the newspaper either.  I think any area that has a sport league needs to have major coverage in the newspaper or other publication.  If we keep promoting high scores on soft conditions, then people are going to keep shooting for that.  I'd like to limit score publication to scratch achievements on challenging conditions.  This would motivate people to get better on challenging conditions and then we might see the MAJORITY of people wanting sport patterns, and then integrity would have a chance once again.
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MSC2471

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Re: Integrity in the Media
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2005, 12:33:05 AM »
My local area has bowling stories whenever a series of honor scores and/or records have been broken. In years past we were able to get the local weekly newspaper to print the standings of our classic league as well as a 4-5 paragraph write up on the bowling for the week in that league. In the house with tons of honor scores, the daily local newspaper probably ended up doing writeups and photos of these high scores every 2-3 weeks during the fall/winter leagues. The 5 man team scratch record in our state was broken this year in that particular house as well as the women's scratch high series. There was a sport league in that house and I don't think there was a single article about this league or any high scores shot in it throughout the year- in fact the owner and another bowler in that league had to put up special sponsorship money to attract bowlers into this league (they had 20 bowlers- 10 doubles teams...).

Within our local area, they are willing to do writeups on bowling if you can provide different angles to cover (the youth, special promotions/ charity work, milestones, etc.).

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Ragnar

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Re: Integrity in the Media
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2005, 11:03:39 AM »
Local newspaper doesn't know bowling exists.  Once, about 9 years back, they ran an article featuring 4 of us who had recently shot 300's, but that's it.
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Re: Integrity in the Media
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2005, 11:04:27 AM »
Bowling doesn't exist here.  Most people probably don't even know if we have a bowling alley.
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Re: Integrity in the Media
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2005, 11:17:47 AM »
bowling exhists here but you have to  do something big to get in the paper, like 300's 800's and the most recent one here was the PBA stop here (Spectrum Lanes).
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