{"id":18888,"date":"2013-02-04T10:23:35","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=18888"},"modified":"2013-02-04T10:23:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:23:35","slug":"cbs-sports-fumbles-during-superbowl-blackout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/04\/cbs-sports-fumbles-during-superbowl-blackout\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Sports fumbles during SuperBowl blackout"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the New York Daily News<\/em>, Bob Raissman<\/a> asks why CBS didn’t bother to do any actual “journalism” about the blackout:<\/p>\n

The fans inside the Superdome were not the only ones left in the dark when half the building\u2019s power went out in the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII Sunday night. Viewers were left with unanswered questions as CBS Sports\u2019 sideline reporters, and the rest of the cast, failed to go into a reporting mode.<\/p>\n

There was no outrage, no questioning how a thing like this could happen on the NFL\u2019s biggest night of the year.<\/p>\n

At a time when they should have been aggressively gathering news, CBS\u2019 crew was satisfied with the crumbs the NFL dropped on them. And they swallowed the scraps gladly. Not once during the 34-minute delay did a representative of the National Football League appear on camera to attempt to explain what caused half the Superdome to lose power. Why should they? No one from CBS put any pressure on them.<\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/p>\n

Think about it. CBS pays billions for the right to air NFL games. Much of that dough is shelled out to secure rights to the Super Bowl. So, on the big night, there is a major screwup and the NFL won\u2019t put someone on the air \u2014 and CBS won\u2019t push the league \u2014 to try to explain what\u2019s going on? That\u2019s mind-boggling.<\/p>\n

But not quite as wacked as CBS\u2019 laid-back approach to reporting this story, which will go down as one of the more unusual moments in Super Bowl history. All the players were on the field, waiting, stretching. Why not take a camera and microphone on the sidelines for an interview? If they blow you off, fine \u2014 at least viewers would have something worth watching.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the New York Daily News, Bob Raissman asks why CBS didn’t bother to do any actual “journalism” about the blackout: The fans inside the Superdome were not the only ones left in the dark when half the building\u2019s power went out in the third quarter of Super Bowl XLVII Sunday night. Viewers were left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28],"tags":[497,475,179,51,483,101],"class_list":["post-18888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-media","tag-electricity","tag-neworleans","tag-nfl","tag-pr","tag-superbowl","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4UE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18889,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18888\/revisions\/18889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}