Media personality bias registry

[buzzbuzz]

Mark Stevens - Bulldogs

The Triple M Adelaide commentary team is the most ridiculously, overtly biased group of professional football commentators I have ever had the displeasure of listening to (I am forever grateful that it's only on rare occasions that Triple M Melbourne will broadcast their stream for Adelaide-based games).

 

[Hollow Knight]

Craig "Voice of AFL" Willis - Brisbane Lions

 

[dmc333]

Luke Darcy - Leading Teams

 

[peternorth]

Luke Darcy - Leading Teams

luke darcy - himself


slightly off topic, but how about media personalities with bias towards other media personalities?

for example tim watson and all ch 7 commentators.
but this morning huddo spoke about darcy vs wallace. not sure which way he leant given he works with darcy on ch 10, and plough on sen.

 

[Slattery_20]

It's a bit of a boys club, they all seem to pump up each others' tyres.

 

[Primetime Pricey]

Not recently.
Has been pretty harsh on us since we've been heading downwards, say 2003-04.

Not doing it in any insightful way either which is the really annoying bit.

Robbo is a massive Essendon supporter

Also OP Michael Christian is probably the most unbiased caller on TV. When he is asked he says deep down he supports them when calling a Pies game but you cant tell when he is actually doing the call.

 

[camsmith]

Channel 7 - Biased towards the umpires.

Commentators are supposed to also analyze the game, and that includes talking about umpiring decisions that may ave affected play.

 

[Bell Ringer]

Robbo is a massive Essendon supporter

Also OP Michael Christian is probably the most unbiased caller on TV. When he is asked he says deep down he supports them when calling a Pies game but you cant tell when he is actually doing the call.

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[Geelong_Sicko]

Steve Quartermain should have an asterisk next to his name as a part-time barracker - NOTORIOUS fairweather Hawk. Grins when they're winning but has no time for them when they're in a slump. Robert Walls frequently gives him shit about it.

 

[tek87]

Cometti has a definite leaning to the western bulldogs

 

[dmc333]

Channel 7 - Biased towards the umpires.

Commentators are supposed to also analyze the game, and that includes talking about umpiring decisions that may ave affected play.

You know the problem with that though - commentators are on notice to reign in harsh calls on umpiring so not to piss off the AFL.

 

[Bell Ringer]

You know the problem with that though - commentators are on notice to reign in harsh calls on umpiring so not to piss off the AFL.

Yet it's not as big a problem on radio calls.

Seems that the amount of stick a commentator will give an umpire is inversely proportional to the amount the broadcaster has paid for their rights.

 

[davywap]

These are the worst offenders in my book:

• Eddie McGuire - ummm...Collingwood? (however hasn't called a Pies game in about 5 years and you'd expect him to be bias other times seeing he is the president of the club)
• Graham Cornes and that other old c*** from Adelaide - Crows
• Alistair Lynch - Brisbane
• Bill Brownless - Geelong
• Robert Walls - Caaaaarltn, anti-Collingwood, Essendon & West Coast
• Tim Lane - Carlton, anti-Collingwood (when these last 2 flogs are together, god help us)
• Garry Lyon - Melbourne
• Mark Fine, Francis Leach and that old c*** on SEN after midnight - St Kilda
• Grant Thomas - St Kilda, anti-Bulldogs
• Dunstall - anti-Collingwood
• Brereton - anti-Essendon
• Andy Maher - Carlton
• All journos - anti-Malthouse (we don't wike it when the angwy man be's mean to us)

 

[Sprout]

Robert Walls actually has leanings towards Essendon, whom he supported growing up. During the Bombers Demons game you could distinctly hear him say "we're back in this" after the Bombers kicked a couple in a row.

 

[CatDog29]

Basil Zempilas - definite WCE media hack
Adrian Barich - ex WCE
West Aust's Butler - WCE media hack
Goose Gossage - WCE blatant - tho became a bit of a Freo bandwagoner after he was getting ignored and access denied to Freo

These are definitely owned by WCE - no hard questions on woosha ever, yet get stuck into Harvey for any pathetic reason they can think of

Footy "reporters/media" in the west are so totally biased - far more so than Vic's

 

[ManicMiner]

Steve Butler - Essendon
Craig O'Donoghue - Essendon
Digby Beacham - North Melbourne
Mark Duffield - Fremantle (uncle of Paul)
Dale Miller - Hawthorn
Shayne Hope - East Fremantle

 

[TheWhiteRhino]

Which commentators/ media figures seem to despise your team

Quartermain and Brian Taylor both give the Swans donuts, regardless of form and achievements.

 

[Harvey Leadpipe]

Re: Which commentators/ media figures seem to despise your team

We've deserved most negative articles that were written about us over the past 20 or so years, but Damien Barrett has had some petty vendetta against Richmond for years, to the point most of his articles are clearly made up. Think he may have this against the Roos too. Although he can hardly call himself a journalist, more of a gossip columnist / fiction writer. Poor journalist at best.

Others will no doubt touch on Caro.

Hutchy is just a gerbil. A little rodent of a man.

Others seem pretty reasonable.

Isn't Gary Lyon a swinging halfwit? People thought he was coach material at one point???

 

[Bomber32]

Re: Which commentators/ media figures seem to despise your team

Robert Walls hates Essendon for some unknown reason. That is very odd considering he followed them as a kid.

 

[CAS79]

Re: Which commentators/ media figures seem to despise your team

Quartermain and Brian Taylor both give the Swans donuts, regardless of form and achievements.

Add Dwayne Russell has it in for us big time. .

Brian Taylor doesn't have a clue about the Swans but it doesn't stop the big shit opening his mouth a lot about how we have no kids and no future.

He also said on radio on Saturday that the swans would be playing the Hawks it was just a question of where.

 

[Quivorir]

Re: Which commentators/ media figures seem to despise your team

All of em.

 

[Territory Magpie]

Re: Which commentators/ media figures seem to despise your team

Add Dwayne Russell has it in for us big time. .

Brian Taylor doesn't have a clue about the Swans but it doesn't stop the big shit opening his mouth a lot about how we have no kids and no future.

He also said on radio on Saturday that the swans would be playing the Hawks it was just a question of where.

Dwayno seemed VERY excited about the prospects of Kieran Jack. Kept on about how much improved he is/how he is gonna be a gun for most of the replay on Foxtel's "The Winners". If he hated the Swans as you say, he would have just ignored him.

 

[theyellowsash]

Re: Which commentators/ media figures seem to despise your team

most of the carlton supporting ones, particularly walls. but that scumbag maher has got to take the cake as the most biased people out there. you can see the whole panel looking akward and trying to butt in every time he goes on one of his massive anti richmond rants.

caro and hutchie hate anyone they can stick the boots into easily.

 

[angrynaut]

Re: Which commentators/ media figures seem to despise your team

I always got the feeling that Gerard Whateley hated our lot.

 

[NSWCROW]

Re: Which commentators/ media figures seem to despise your team

LOL
Ever heard Dwayne Russell call a crows game ???