Perhaps we should have a “lowest form of sustainable life” contest.
Entrants include: sportscasters,the MSM, public school administration, congress, and the presidency.
We already knew that but it’s good to have one’s personal views verified by an independent professional...so we’re not paranoid after all.
“Shut up and do the play-by-play.”
The allegedly “unwritten rule” about not pushing political or social agendas in sports journalism was broken decades ago. Back in the 1980s (before the dawn of the internet) I subscribed to The Sporting News, as Sports Illustrated was the sports arm of the democrat/communist propaganda complex. While TSN was the house organ of the St. Louis Cardinals, for the most part it had decent reporting and was the best source for the baseball box scores and stats.
But then the TSN op-ed writers began the push for sports as a means to “social justice.” If I recall that was around 1988 or 1989 that it became pronounced. In disgust, I dropped my subscription.
My brother tried to tell me years ago that sports journalists are every bit as biased, and perhaps even more so, than those in the mainstream press.
I am beginning to think that he was right.
ESPN resembles MSNBC more and more every day.
Same thing with NHL reporting over the years. Almost all of them have demanded a ban on fighting for years, as well as making helmets and later, visors, compulsory equipment. Basically wanting the league to be like US College or Europe.
As a result, you are seeing stickwork and cheapshot offences way up (along with career ending head and neck and back injuries) compared to when even I began watching the game back in the late 1970s (let alone the Bobby Hull, Frank Mahovlich, etc era). Anybody who talks about the NHL that featured less headgear and only five minutes for fighting was the more cleaner and polite brand of sport gets called out as basically stupid and “non-progressive”.
For whatever reason, most national sports reporters are liberal Jews. You’re gonna get their viewpoint whether you want it or not.