Red Sox Nation has a voracious appetite for all things Red Sox, and the Boston media does everything it can to ensure The Nation will have plenty to read about.
The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Providence Journal, The Worcester Telegram & Gazette, The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, numerous other newspapers, NESN, NECN , the sports departments of at least five television stations, ad infinitum—all of these media outlets battle one another for readership/viewership.
It’s all about the ratings. So the media constantly chases stories…and if the story doesn’t exist they invent storylines to keep the readers buying newspapers or the viewers tuning in.
And so when Red Sox DH David Ortiz struggled this spring, the media swarmed on him and asked about last spring&mdas ...
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Ortiz Explodes at a Boston Media Intent on Chasing Stories
Posted: 7th April 2010 by Jeffrey Brown in MLBComments Off on Ortiz Explodes at a Boston Media Intent on Chasing Stories