Posted on 01/21/2016 10:46:22 AM PST by jimbo123
As the 2016 election looms, ESPN sent employees a memo telling them to avoid making any political or partisan comments.
"At ESPN, our reputation and journalistic credibility are of paramount importance - and that extends to our coverage of the Presidential Election, candidates, issues and the intersection of sports and society," the memo reads, which was also posted to ESPN's website two weeks ago. "Our audiences should be confident that political pressures or personal interests do not influence our news decisions."
(Excerpt) Read more at mediaite.com ...
ESPN tells reporters to hide their liberalism in this political climate as it now impacts negatively on revenue.
Does this mean no Obama interviews on SuperBowl Sunday?
“At ESPN, our reputation and journalistic credibility are of paramount importance.....”
And yet you hired and rehired Keith Obermann how many times???
I’m afraid the towel boys at ESPN aren’t smart enough to realize that every time they open their mouths about politics they alienate at least half their audience.
No they arent. They are simply trying to figure out a way to keep their viewers and forward the agenda at the same time.
They are run and entirely staffed by liberals. There will be no getting it, ever.
Would love to have seen the ratings on this one.
“At ESPN, our reputation and journalistic credibility are of paramount importance - and that extends to our coverage of the Presidential Election, candidates, issues and the intersection of sports and society,”
I didn’t know ESPN was covering the presidential election.
Here’s a clue for the ESPN flying monkeys. We watch sports because we want a break from society.
In other words, "the Liberal choices this election cycle are so bad promoting them hurts us enough to notice on the bottom line"
Happy to have done my small part, wish I'd done it years ago.
There are very few conservative sports journalists.
Talk about closing the barn door after the horse gets out!!!
It used to be the bastion for conservative writers/journos. But they were hunted to extinction by publishers and editors with leftist agendas.
Agreed. Goes for any entertainment industry or entertainer too. They just don’t seem to get it, opening your mouth on politics alienates half your audience, either way - liberal or conservative.
I love watching sports.
. . . or maybe they just go back to broadcasting sports events and highlight shows.
freaking espn jumped the shark years ago. they need to blow the place up and start over again.
Sports journalism as a vehicle for “social justice” is the reason I gave up my Sports Illustrated subscription in 1981 and my Sporting News subscription in 1990. Like you, it is also the reason I stopped watching any ESPN show that was not a live broadcast of a sports event. All of the “talking heads” shows are nothing but Bolshevik Agitprop. And I’m not the only one who has noticed, because ESPN is bleeding money. The executives who look at the bottom line are capitalist enough to know red ink is bad, so the red propaganda has to stop.
Of course the “journalists,” who were indoctrinated at the finest communist run journalism schools, are now baffled. Without the Party Line to spout, they don’t have anything to say.
At ESPN, our reputation and journalistic credibility are of paramount importance
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