What the Media Chooses to Show us

October 29 2013 One of the sub topics we discussed under Sports and Social media was What the Media Chooses to Show Us.

I came across a great article in the SBJ journal by Anna Hruska on September 16 013 titled “Women in the Sports World.” I believe this is a great topic to discuss on media and sport. 

In our notes we talked how

•  Women have less air time for sport’s
• There's limited coverage of women’s team sports 
•  The media focuses on women’s personal life/appearance more than the sport they play.

Women may not be the faces of the sport world but, their definitely are some women who stand out in sport. Anna Hrushka talks about 3 women who are the face of the sport world such as Clair Williams, Nawal El Moutawakel and Monika Stabb. Clair who is a team principle at Williams F1 is one out of two of the only women to hold this important role.Nawal who is from Casablanca, Morocco grew into the sport industry as a little girl when she was the first Arab Muslim to win the Olympic gold. 30 years later she’s remains a symbol for female Arab world. She also is the vice president of the IOC Executive Committee. So as you can see though these women may have come across a lot of barriers in their lives they are still promoting a change for women in the sports world today. To me this is critical for all women trying to pursue a career in sports. The media doesn't’t show women a lot but, if enough women show that their important enough to sport the media will have to look at women. Coakley’s text says that “Many male executives of large media corporations are dedicated sports fans and they like to be associated with sports as sponsors (Pg. 414).” I believe most of this statement to be true, men are the face of sport but, who says women can’t be too. In this video taken in 2010 about Raelee Tuckerman you can see how important sport is to women when their broadcasted on television.