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#4: Fix The Media<\/span><\/p>\n Er. <\/span>Yeah. <\/span>That’d be us. <\/span>Prior to the launch of this website, news coverage of Long Beach sports (by local outlets) was limited to the Press Telegram (whose budget implosions are well-documented), a broadcast of one game a week on Ed.Tv, and… that was pretty much it. <\/span>This is, as we’ve mentioned previously, one of America’s largest cities, with a larger population than Miami, which has five newspapers covering local sports (and two more that print in Spanish), three TV stations, and two radio stations keeping up on local action. <\/span>Granted, we suffer from the fact that we’re in the shadow of Los Angeles—the bigger publications and TV stations up there don’t recognize LB as important enough to cover regularly (how many Long Beach State articles have you read in the Times, or how many Poly highlights have you seen on NBC broadcasts?), and few have ventured to start new enterprises that are local-grown, because of the myth that LB is just an LA suburb and not, you know, bigger than Miami.<\/p>\n But for all its evils, the fact is that the media drives sports. <\/span>How much easier is it to follow college football or get excited about NFL playoff matchups because ESPN helps to build hype, as well as showing games and providing highlights? 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