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I have followed for a four days how the media shows Finland's games and feelings after their winning USA in the World Championship games in 2008. I really like a lot of ice hockey and thats why I choose this issue.
The issue had been in a huge attention in Finland's media for example on TV and in newspapers. I follow how this issue is presented on Helsingin Sanomat and MTV3's evenings sports news at 10.20 PM.
On Thursday all the media had got crazy. Finland had beaten USA in semi-finals at early Thursday morning. Almost every Finn watched that huge spectacle where the Finland leads nearly the whole game but USA square the game in the last few minutes. Finally Finland scored in the extra time and won. In my opinion this was awesome! This was a huge piece of news in Finland's media. In MTV3's sports news they told detailed how the game move on and they told it very exited and proud about our so called national heroes. In addition they told how Finland's team coach, Doug Shedden, had been criticized in Finland. There was also talk about Finland's tomorrow's opponent, Russia. The Finnish team had been as well get stuck to airport of Halifax because there was some kind of problems with their properties. MTV3 sports news1
In Helsingin Sanomat there was only an article about Finland's teams’ guardians and that article filled almost the whole page. Unfortunately there was no article about the morning's game because the newspaper had not been published before the game ended. Helsingin Sanomat 05/15/2008
On Friday there was large article about that game in Helsingin Sanomat. Even though the issue was written very concise, it was accurate and clearly. Helsingin Sanomat 05/16/2008
In the MTV3s news there was again lot of issues. There was a game between Finland and Russia. Finland was defeated in the game and looses their opportunity to win gold. This really annoyed every patriotics Finns. It also could see on the face of the reporter who told the news.
They also speculated about skills of Russian team, the game of the day and what kind of history Finland and Russia has in ice hockey. MTV3 sports news2
On Saturday MTV3s sports news followed how Finland played with Sweden in bronze- game which ended for Finland's winning. It is always great when Finland beat Sweden and it came up quite distinctly. On the TV they also show up that when Finland beats Sweden, it’s always time to have national party.
There was also speculating about yesterday's game between Finland and Russia which was quite satisfied although they beat Finland. Nothing couldn’t damage their feelings about Finland’s bronze-medal. MTV3 sports news 05/17/2008 time 10.20 PM
In Helsingin Sanomat there was an article about yesterdays game, interview about Teemu Selänne, Doug Shedden and Mikko Koivu and how fans of team Finland behave in games.
Helsingin Sanomat 05/17/2008
On Sunday there was only a little article about yesterdays game about how Finland won the bronze. This made me feel that Finnish thinks that the bronze is pathetic.
In the sports news there were only two little interviews about Selänne and Koivu. Information about team Finland decreased when their games came close to the end.
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Sources:
Helsingin Sanomat
days 15-18.5.2008
MTV3 sports news
days 15-18.5.2008
Marika Vainio
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