I don’t think anyone is reacting as “media” or “trying to influence elections” in the case of what Schilling said. ESPN is private business. They can hire and fire whomever they like as long as they are not discriminating under the law.
If I started a website saying my company sucked because they hire gays, I’m pretty sure I’d be fired.
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Seems we’re all for that around here except when it comes to bite us.
Try telling that to the leftists who decry how horrible it was that private industry at onetime blacklisted known Communists. Nothing discriminatory about that (sex, creed, color are not a factor).
They are not a "private business" when they have to have broadcasting licenses to operate. The rules of broadcast licenses are intended to preclude one-party control of broadcasting apparatus. The industry is regulated to prevent a monopoly of power. Remember the crap they gave Rupert Murdoch when he was buying up media assets?
If I started a website saying my company sucked because they hire gays, I’m pretty sure I’d be fired.
If your company is does not have the ability to influence elections, they can do what they want. When you are in the broadcasting business, you need to be regulated to prevent just this sort of anti-free speech abuse.
PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. Seems we’re all for that around here except when it comes to bite us.
Fighting back against Broadcast licensed Thought Nazis *IS* our personal responsibility, and if we can use the hammer of government against would be Nazis, we should. They have certainly been doing it to us.
But in your opinion, people aren’t allowed to criticize ESPN for their decisions?