Comcast SportsNet Bay Area's latest addition of Ray Ratto certainly is another bold move by the sports cable biggie, but with the Ratto acquisition, and earlier pickups of Mychael Urban, Matt Steinmetz, and Matt Maiocco, is there a resentment in Bay Area newspaper outlets with CC's raiding of their top-tier sports writers?
Yes and no.
I talked to a local sports editor for a major daily who acknowledged the potential tension with Comcast seeking out top writers, but was also understanding that, given the state of the newspaper business; even the more profit-friendly website arena, writers/"insiders" had to look out for their own good.
One player in the biz who asked not to be named was more blunt. "I don't begrudge a guy like 'Ratto doing what he did. The uncertainty in our industry is sort of murky at best. They went after him and he made the obvious choice--we'd all do the same."
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TOP?? Not even close. Everybody on that list is coated in KNBR/Giants/Comcastiganda. Urban writes,but is a tool for the Giants and his idol Billy Beane,Ratto sold out as a unbiased writer long ago,Steinmetz also knows who to suck up to at KNBR. If anything you should be worried that choice jobs are now going to puppets of big media. You also-like just like ALL local sports media or sports media watcher,fail to point out the total lack of bay area like diversity at all three entitys. Where in a city 51% Asian as San Francsico are the Asians on KNBR or Comcast? where in a bay area 51% Latino are the Latino voices at KNBR or Comcast?..its pure racism. They hire black men..and then shake their hands as if-"thats it,we have enough color".
ReplyDeleteIt's so bad that local writers like Kawakami are too cowardly to say a word. It's one thing to expect a white writer to point it out,but you would think a writer of color would stand up for something important. At least once in his life.