Media Issues: June 2008 Archives

Listening to BBC Radio 5 Live's broadcast of the Romania-France match in the Euro Cup tournament. The match is being held in Zurich. During a break, the commentators were discussing some of the drama off the pitch that always occurs at an international tournament. Euro 08 is important to the players, but the big money is at the club competition level, of course. There's a bit of a flap currently over Real Madrid's pursuit of MUFC midfielder Christiano Ronaldo of Portugal.

In discussing the subject, one of the commentators recounted a conversation from the night before, petting the stage with, "So, we were in a bar, in Zurich..."

Can you imagine the fireworks if someone for CBS or FOX mentioned a barroom conversation during a NFL broadcast? We Americans are such Puritans.