Shanghai Derby 2015 clouds rise again behind Shenhua's fiasco
The three red cards shown by Manning in the 2015 Shanghai derby became the trigger for Shenhua's debacle, and despite being unbeaten yesterday's Shenhua seemed to have lost more completely in some ways.
The dissatisfaction and favoritism of the Shanghai media in the face of Shenhua's controversial performance is reminiscent of the coddling of children.
Through the portal of the sports media, we glimpse the intricacies and deeper issues behind the scenes.
Bluntly, those people simply don't seem to have what it takes to sit in that position.
The fact that people who don't know anything about soccer have swung into becoming soccer journalists reveals the extent of the misplaced resources.
The obvious misrepresentation of the sports media is really a reflection of the low-brow audience they deliberately cater to.
While it is understandable that local sports channels favor local teams, the consistent misrepresentation of major sports media such as Five Star Sports, Beiqing Sports, and Oriental Sports Daily exposes the aesthetic shallowness of the audience.
Chinese sports, like a microcosm of society, are still limited by the narrow-mindedness of its viewers, whose short-sightedness and limitations boil down to seeing sports as the only emotional outlet.
When our countrymen can put their minds at ease, China's sports media will hopefully be on the right track.
Guangdong sports media's trend-setting, Beijing-Shanghai media's stark contrasts
In stark contrast to the Beijing-Shanghai sports media, the Guangdong sports media's favoritism towards local teams often draws criticism from fans, perhaps revealing why Guangdong is the first in China to do so.
Criticism becomes the norm so that society can progress in the midst of scolding.
Even with the plight of Guangzhou's two Chinese Super League teams, the Guangdong media has not been overly biased.
From Beijing and Shanghai to the treatment of local teams by the Guangdong sports media, we see the roots of Guangdong's vibrancy.
The way education is delivered maps the future of a place.
The Shanghai epidemic has given us a new appreciation for the Shanghainese, who are truly different.
The match between Dalian People and Shanghai Seaport adds a new dimension to the Oscar-less Seaport due to the strange presence of Shanghai Sports.
Traditional Media Holding the Line in the Age of Self-Media
In the age of self-media, traditional media should stick to the bottom line, and maintain a clear stream in the flood of mud.
The eyeball effect and click pressure in the age of self-media have made many self-media lose their bottom line and fakery is frequent.
Traditional media should stick to the bottom line as a sign of its purity.
The heated rhetoric from two of Shanghai's traditional sports media appears to be a last-ditch struggle in the age of the Internet and self-publishing.
For traditional sports media, they need to realize that the Stone Age ended not because of the disappearance of stone tools, but because of the coming of the Metal Age.
Even if your words are impassioned, in the end, they are nothing more than stone knives and stone axes, which will inevitably be eliminated after the audience compares them with bronzes.
