That's the point. I can forgive (just) people who're not absolutely besotted by cricket, but what I'm really getting at is the astonishing sexism of sports broadcasters.
The "minority interest" argument the Beeb offers just doesn't work. One of the most popular televised "sports" in the UK is currently snooker.* A couple of decades ago it was with a vengeance a "minority sport" . . . but then the Beeb started to televise it.
Meanwhile, the non-Beeb UK channels took up another "minority sport", darts, and found enormous ratings were there for the having.
So what the Beeb (and the other UK broadcasters) are doing is, effectively, saying: "We wish this sport to stay a minority interest because, well, after all, who can take it seriously, I mean, well, they're gels, aren't they, what?"
* The quote-marks aren't derogatory -- I'm a big snooker fan, having wasted too much of my university career on it. I'm just not convinced it's a sport.
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Date: 2009-06-22 01:45 am (UTC)"Curling, on the other hand"
That's the point. I can forgive (just) people who're not absolutely besotted by cricket, but what I'm really getting at is the astonishing sexism of sports broadcasters.
The "minority interest" argument the Beeb offers just doesn't work. One of the most popular televised "sports" in the UK is currently snooker.* A couple of decades ago it was with a vengeance a "minority sport" . . . but then the Beeb started to televise it.
Meanwhile, the non-Beeb UK channels took up another "minority sport", darts, and found enormous ratings were there for the having.
So what the Beeb (and the other UK broadcasters) are doing is, effectively, saying: "We wish this sport to stay a minority interest because, well, after all, who can take it seriously, I mean, well, they're gels, aren't they, what?"
* The quote-marks aren't derogatory -- I'm a big snooker fan, having wasted too much of my university career on it. I'm just not convinced it's a sport.