Knowledge bank: I am going to talk about problems I see in sports media. My point of reference is American sport and sport media.

Knowledge bank: Research findings of the routine, day-to-day amount of coverage of women in sport, remain that female athletes are still, in many cases, symbolically annihilated.

In this talk to an international sports media conference in Copenhagen, Robert Davies makes the case for social responsibility in the media.

A survey of sports journalism in Norway, Denmark and Sweden shows that Scandinavian newspapers' sport coverage is uncritical and one-sided.

The media must assume the role of a sports policeman in order to eradicate the unjust practices that are denying women their rightful place in the community of sport, says Carol Garos, Secretary General of The African Women in Sport Association.

How can we describe a press corps that up until 1998 passively hitched a ride on the professional cycling caravan, allowing the riders to lift share values up with them into the mountains?

The bidding game alliteration reflects perfectly the situation of the position of sports rights in the beginning of the 21st century.

In the past few years we have many examples where the ideals of sport are being tarnished in ways that suggests sports men and women and the people who work with are under intolerable pressure to deliver success.