《纽约时报》批评ABC在女足决赛转播中的沙文主义
新浪体育讯：7月11的《纽约时报》发表文章，对美国广播公司(ABC)
在转播第三届女足世界杯决赛中表现出的沙文主义给予了批评，文章全
文如下：
标题：美国队到底在与谁争夺冠军？(Just Who Was the United
States Playing for the Championship?)
作者：Richard Sandomir
在昨天进行的女足世界杯决赛中，中国队对于ABC体育频道来说是否
具有意义？
在有美国队参加的国际赛事中，ABC对于外国队伍的关注程度值得分
析。
中国队除了被报道出场参加了比赛之外，其他并不是ABC报道的重点。
然而事实是中国队与美国队120分钟之内打成了平局。你们不能漠视中国
队的存在。人们不禁要疑惑，如果最终是中国队赢了，ABC会怎么办？
ABC的两位解说员J.P. Dellacamera和Wendy Gebauer至少对中国队所
有队员的名字是一清二楚的。但是中国队的技战术和个人特点都被忽略不
谈了，就好象这些队员不过是千人一面的机器而已。
也许这是因为一方有科学家被控窃取美国的核机密，而克林顿总统又
亲临玫瑰碗吧。
这种迹象一开始就显露了。当比赛开始后，ABC在屏幕上打出了一幅
图表“美国队获胜的要素”。按照公平原则，下面也应该显示“中国队获
胜的要素”，但ABC没有这么做。难道中国队是偷偷摸摸溜进世界杯决赛
的吗？难道中国队队员的优势和弱点都是秘不可宣的吗？难道中国队的前
五场比赛都是在与世隔绝的场地进行的吗？
赛前20分钟的转播画面(其中9分24秒是商业广告)几乎没有给予观众
了解中国队的机会(给予美国队的镜头也不太多)，而按照常理，电视直播
应该向对足球知之不多的观众更多介绍一下赛事，ABC的这种做法令人觉
得奇怪。(中场休息时也没有进行评球；谁能想象在超级杯比赛的中场居
然没有评球？)
整个比赛过程中，当两位解说员介绍队员个人情况时，美国队也是占
尽便宜。(难道中国队除了向女足世界杯新闻中心提供队员的姓名和号码
以外，拒绝提供别的资料了吗？)
在所有ABC播映的观众反应的镜头中，我不记得出现过中国人的脸孔。
是不是周围就没有中国人、没有为中国队摇旗呐喊的球迷、没有一个脸上
画着油彩的中国队球迷呢？
Dellacamera在以前的美国国内比赛中看起来很公正。但是昨天他滔
滔不绝谈论的是美国队的得分机会，而不是中国队的。这种不公正倾向在
点球大战中表现得最明显。
当莉莉射门得分使美国队3-2领先时，Dellacamera喊道：“射门，得
分！”
当中国队的张鸥影将比分扳平后，他语气平淡地说：“张。她得分了。”
米娅-哈姆将比分再次超出时，Dellacamera又喊道：“射门。得分了！
”
但是他对孙雯将比分扳平的进球好象有些失望：“孙雯射门得分。”
查斯顿决定胜利的入球令Dellacamera兴奋得大叫：“GOAL！”
查斯顿得分后，Dellacamera有两分钟没说话。正确的策略。让画面
来讲故事吧。中国人离开赛场了吗？还是通过暗门溜走了？在绝大部分赛
后庆祝过程中，电视导播本能地调度镜头朝向兴奋的胜利者而躲开悲哀的
失败者。当美国队在赛场上欢庆胜利时中国队队员也许最好坐飞机回北京。
中国队员是在努力克制还是在哭泣呢？中国队这一半故事到哪去了？
查斯顿进球后五分钟ABC上才出现中国队的镜头(持续30秒)，当时她
们在接受亚军奖牌。
Dellacamera和Gebauer的最后评论证明，他们认为中国队员远没有美
国队员重要。他们没有提到中国。Gebauer是1991年女足世界杯冠军美国
队的成员，她说她不得不努力克制自己，因为她已经哭了。
(新浪体育注：J.P. Dellacamera和Wendy Gebauer是美国家喻户晓的
大腕级体育解说员)
以下为《纽约时报》7月11日刊登的原文：
Just Who Was the United States Playing for the Championship？
by Richard Sandomir
Did China matter to ABC Sports at the Woman's World Cup yes-
terday?
In an international competition in which one tean is the Uni-
ted States,it is worth analyzing how much attention the network
pays to the foreign team.
China,aside from being present for the game,was not an ABC
priorlty. Sure,China played the United States team to a draw
through 120 minutes.You couldn't miss the Chinese. Makes you
wonder what ABC would have done if China had won.
At least the announcers,J.p.Dellacamera and Wendy Gebauer,
knew all the Chinese players' names.But the team's stralegies
and personalities wer shorted as if the players were faceless
automatons.
Maybe this is what happens when your scientists are accused
of filching American nuclear secrets and President Clinton is at
the Rose Bowl.
*************
The first sign of the treatment came early. When the game
started, ABC popped up a chart: "USA Keys to Victory." Fairness
dictated that a similar list of Chinese keys follow.It didn't.
Did China sneak into the final? Were its srrengths and weaknesses
secret? Had China played five previous World Cup games in a
hermetically sealed stadium?
The 20-minute pre-game show (with 9 minutes 24 seconds of
commercials) offered little to help a viewer know the Chinese
players (it wasn't so hot on the American souad either),which
is odd considering the telecast should have been tilted toward
viewers less knowledgeable about soccer.(The halftime show was
barren of analysis; imagine a Super Bowl half time without
analysis?)
Throughout the game, the United States'players received
better treatment whenever Dellacamera or Gebauer slipped in
personal tidbits. (Did the Chinese team refuse to give more
than name and rank to the tournament's media guide?)
With all the crowd reaction shots used by ABC, I can't
remember a Chinese face. Did the Chinese team have no nation-
alist contingent, no flag-waving fans, not a slngle one with
a painted face?
Dellacamera, who seemed so fair in his enthussiasms during
United States games until yesterday, often sounded more jazzed
by the Americans'scoring possibilities than by China's. That
unfairness emerged most dramatically during the decisive penalty
kicks that ended with the United States victory.
When Kristine Lilly scored to put the United States ahead,
3-2,Dell acamera shouted:"The shot.Goal!"
When China's Zhang Ouying tied it,he said,without a hint of
emotion:"Zhang.And she scores."
Mia Hamm's go-ahead goal was called by Dellacamera with a
second shout:"Shot,And a goal".
But Sun Wen'stying goal sounded like a disappointment to
Dellacamera."Sun Wen shot and she scores.
Yet Brandi Chastain's game-win-ner was a simple ,joyful
roat: "GOAL!"
******
After Chastain scored,Dellacamera said nothing for nearly
two minutes, the right tack. Let the pictures tell the story.
But had the Chinese left the field?Fallen through a trapdoor?
In most post-game championship celebrations ,television directors
instinctively alternate shots of dellriously happy winners with
those of the disconsolate losers. But as the United States team
partied on the field , the Chinese team might well have jitted
off to BeiJing.
Were they stoic? Were they sobbing? Where was their half of
the story?
ABC waited five minutes from Chastain's goal ABC to discover
the Chinese team (for 30 seconds)as it accepted second-place
medals.
Dellacamera and Gebauer's final comments solidified the
belief that China's players mattered far less than Amerlca's.
They did not mention China.Gebauer, a member of the victorious
United States team at the 1991 Women's World Cup,said she bad
to compose herself because she had been crying. Jingo bells.
All the way.
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