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May 21, 2019

Ah-Doyyy: ESPN President Realizes That a Sports Network Probably Shouldn't Be Interjecting Politics Into Every Other Segment

Woke-Broke: The Legendary Journeys.

Jim Geraghty quotes from an LA Times piece on ESPN's president:

"Without question our data tells us our fans do not want us to cover politics," Pitaro said. "My job is to provide clarity. I really believe that some of our 'talent' [ironic quotes added by me] was confused on what was expected of them. If you fast-forward to today, I don't believe they are confused."

I believe these jocksniffers still are confused, but maybe more about their barely-suppressed homoerotic achings for athletes' puds than about their need to provide leftwing color commentary after every fly ball.

Geraghty notes that "some of the most politically-active sports commentators have moved on to other things."

Lesser things. Heard from Keith Olbermann lately?

29 How will the world survive without guys in loud suits sitting at space desks yelling at each other?

Posted by: brak

18 Nice how the upper management that pushed this is now suddenly blaming it on rouge employees.

Sorry asshole--that is who you are
Posted by: RoyalOil, Vicroy Canadian Territories

27 18 Nice how the upper management that pushed this is now suddenly blaming it on rouge employees.


It was a few bad apples in the Cincinnati office!
Posted by: pep

Note: Keith Olbermann is back at ESPN. Of course.

100 Remember, this back in March?

http://tinyurl.com/y2zxuasp

Keith Olbermann received a talking to from ESPN, his employer, after demanding Mississippi Clarion-Ledger journalist Brian Broom be fired and encouraging an Internet mob to harass a 22-year-old hunter Broom wrote about for the outlet.

posted by: Christopher R. Taylor


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