Posted on 05/26/2017 2:36:14 PM PDT by drewh
Thursday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Fox Sports 1’s Jason Whitlock weighed in on his former employer ESPN’s declining viewership over recent years.
Whitlock acknowledged that many people have been cord cutting over the years, but said some of the “animosity” towards ESPN is “their lurch to the left and injecting progressive victimology into the sports conversation,” which he noted is not a mentality taught in sports.
Carlson then asked how the company’s employees feel about ESPN’s move to the left. According to Whitlock, conservative and moderate employees are “afraid” to express their traditional values.
“I think a lot of them are just now starting to figure out the ramifications of this, and I think there’s been some complaints from some of their employees like, ‘Hey, look, we’re afraid to express that we have traditional sports culture, traditional values,” Whitlock responded.
He continued, “Their ombudsman has written about a culture within ESPN where if you’re slightly conservative or moderate, you’re afraid to express an opinion inside there. It’s a real problem at ESPN and within all of major corporations and everything has gone PC. Everything. Everybody’s afraid, ‘Oh, my God, we can’t upset anybody.’ You’re silencing people — it’s a very dangerous thing.”
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What do those morons who run ESPN (into the ground) not understand about NOT PUTTING YOUR DAMNED POLITICAL OPINIONS ON A SPORTS NETWORK?...............
When Rush was there as a commentator the lefty’s could not wait to run him off.
Given what's happening its pretty stupid to piss off the customers they still have with leftist crap.
Fear is just part of the plan. You conservatives are being Alinsky’d.
I like sports, but haven't got into any of the NBA games at all...not baseball either...
I prefer amateur sports with non-glorified young people trying their best.
and I won't listen to some smart ass telling me how I should think, who I should follow and why so and so is really a nice guy even though he has 10 out of wedlock children by different mothers and expresses hate for my race 24/7.
I have noticed there don’t seem to be as many sports fans in my kids’ generation as in mine.
They’re gonna need to start using another insky, this one ain’t workin.
Sports and ESPN have a serious death spiral about to happen. First, ESPN is locked into contracts which will guarantee losses for them for years.
Then, when those contracts come up for renewal, what is going to happen? If ESPN does not bid high enough, they will lose them and what will the show? If they do get the contracts it will either lock in more losses, or, the Sports complex has excepted smaller fees. If smaller fees, then expect lots of player strikes, which in turn turn marginal fans into non-fans for a long time.
I haven’t watched a single sporting event in almost two decades and if this collapse happens, I will enjoy observing it.
I seldom watch the pros at all. Heck, I even skipped the Super Bowl, even knowing the tremendous comeback. Went straight to the taped version and hit DELETE
I do love ESPNs coverage of college FB and BB during the Tournament. Over time I’ve skipped OTL and SportsCenter, for the politics. Bob Ley is one of the biggest brown nosers ever, and if anyone reads carefully, they will find the left wing frat boys have a shameful record of sexual harassment and settlements, including some of their biggest names.
Hypocrites, you bet.
Ditto, that. I love live baseball including minor league ball but am not enthused by the big leagues at all.Minor league and college ball is the best. I used to go to Little League games but they have gotten too PC.
means quite the opposite from what I suspect you mean. Accepted?
I normally watch sporting events on mute—so I don’t have to listen to PC garbage.
That works most of the time, but sometimes they put the camera on the talking heads in the booth—then _I_ start talking—in expletives. :-)
Part of it too is the ADD culture. Most younger folks aren’t going to sit for three hours and watch a football game where there is maybe 15 min of real in play action.
I wen to an NFL game a few years ago and most of the people around me were on their smart phone the entire time. It’s turning into an event where people with money socialize. Don’t get me wrong, there will always been jersey wearing grown men in their 50s that spend 100% of the discretionary income on sports viewing, but that trend is rapidly going away.
They’ll go the way of the History channel. They will show everything except sports.
I don’t want to come across as a jerk whose attacking Whitlock for doing the right thing, but I think it shows how deep the problem is that you can only get away with saying this if your Black. It’s like how Bill Cosby only got caught because finally a Black guy decided to talk about it. A country where only Black people are allowed to say certain things is not a free country.
I miss the good ole days of the History Channel.
Ditto when A&E was classy.
I am an enormous sports fan and have virtually no use for ESPN. The Kaepernick/Sam/Jenner obsession, the constant pushing of liberal SJW agendas, too much basketball, trying too hard to be “urban”, edgy, witty...the TMZ of sports.
I mean they still have their damn Kaepernick watch going. He had a tryout with the Seahawks the other day and it was somehow front page news.
It’s Disney Corp — one of the major corporations actively hostile against the Presidency
I loved Tom Jackson’s face when Rush was making his point about McNabb.
Priceless!
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