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Inside and out, ESPN dealing with changing political dynamics
ESPN ^ | November 8, 2016 | Jim Brady

Posted on 11/09/2016 5:59:51 AM PST by C19fan

The 2016 presidential election season has been one most of us will never forget. The tone has been ugly, the controversies endless, the coverage unrelenting. Our social media feeds are full of politically charged statements, and what dialogue does exist between differing sides more often resembles a WWE match than nuanced debate.

Thankfully, I get to write about ESPN, where the focus on sports means I never have to deal with politics.

Ah, if only that were true.

(Excerpt) Read more at espn.com ...


TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: boycott; cutthecord; espn; left; liberal; liberalmedia
Hand wringing on how ESPN has become the Ministry of Sports for the Left. I can't stand listening to ESPN radio anymore, only go to the ESPN website for the weekly college Bottom 10, and only watch actual sports on ESPN.
1 posted on 11/09/2016 5:59:51 AM PST by C19fan
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To: C19fan
The tone has been ugly

Yes, use the impersonal to evade the fact that you are the subject of that verb. You in the media set the ugly tone. You threw every filthy dirty disgusting thing you could at this man. You slung it all over the place, and now, don your overalls because YOU need to clean it up.

2 posted on 11/09/2016 6:02:50 AM PST by AndyJackson
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I reserve the dreaded “Double Finger Salute” to any ESPN dork, should I ever spy the low IQ, drivel spouting college dropout on the street.

FUESPN.


3 posted on 11/09/2016 6:05:29 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: C19fan

ESPN, and the entire sports-media complex, can get stuffed.

I’m not watching any of it.


4 posted on 11/09/2016 6:23:12 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician/Journalist. Some assembly required.)
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To: Arm_Bears

I have given up on Monday Night Football, etc. I watch College Gameday, college ball, but that is about it. Too many whiny little bitches on that channel who think they are important. They’re NOT


5 posted on 11/09/2016 6:36:47 AM PST by rstrahan
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To: C19fan

ESPN stands for Exceptionally Socialist Politics Network, doesn’t it?


6 posted on 11/09/2016 6:37:52 AM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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At least ESPN has an excuse, it’s sports, not politics and anything the least political gets you fired.

However, they go too far. Saying a player has a “chink in his armor” is innocent metaphor.

But ESPN fired the person that said it.


7 posted on 11/09/2016 7:03:35 AM PST by cicero2k
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