Posted on 10/10/2017 6:46:44 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
This is 100 percent pure speculation, but if I were a betting man, I'd say The Six, hosted by Jemele Hill and Michael Smith, will be gone from ESPN before the end of the year.
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First things first, despite what the lunatic in charge of our country tweets, one host who appears for an hour a day is not responsible for an entire network's ratings tanking. Yes, the ratings for The Six are down from that time slot last year when ESPN aired SportsCenter featuring Lindsay Czarniak. But let's put things in perspective and offer some context. Via Awful Announcing, in September, The Six was down 20 percent compared to the same week one year ago. Pardon The Interruption, which airs right before The Six, was down 17 percent. So ESPN's ratings slump is not all because of one show or one host. This holds true for any network. It's basic common sense, which I know is shunned in the Trump Era.
But at this point, is there really anything for ESPN or Hill and Smith to gain by continuing on with the show? It's clear Hill has no interest in "sticking to sports" and doesn't want to be muzzled when it comes to speaking out about what's going on in the country. ESPN obviously doesn't want the repeated headache of having to deal with the fallout from Hill's political opinions. It's clear many people -- fans, media members, elected officials -- have made Hill a target.
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The ironic thing is that Trump's attacks on Hill have made her a bigger hero to those who supported her from the first "white supremacist" dust up. If the end of The Six is indeed sooner than later, Hill will come out of it with many offers.
(Excerpt) Read more at si.com ...
The author is completely disrespectful to the President. Also, by extension, by endorsing Jemele Hill's tweets, he is disrespectful to Trump voters, NFL fans, NFL owners, and NFL sponsors.
The author believes that Jemele Hill will be gone before the end of the year, and that when she leaves she will receive many employment offers, as she is now a hero.
His short article does have an important bit of information on ESPN ratings: "The Six was down 20 percent compared to the same week one year ago. Pardon The Interruption, which airs right before The Six, was down 17 " . The author doesn't seem to grasp the significance of that decline in ratings, or what caused it.
Both ESPN and Sports Illustrated are beholden to the NFL to provide content, so those businesses may discuss the games and players in programs and articles, and thereby attract viewers and readers attention, and to sell the attention of the viewers and readers to advertisers.
By attacking the the President, the people who voted for the President, the NFL, patriotic NFL fans, and the NFL advertisers, they are attacking the business revenue of their employers. Their employers rely on that revenue to pay their employees salaries.
I don't think these two people (Jemele Hill of ESPN and Jimmy Traina of Sports Illustrated) have an understanding of how business works. My guess is they have so internalized Marxist theory that they are incapable of operating in a business environment. They do not seem to understand how an employer's profit benefits the employees, how an employer's loss is to the detriment of the employees. Also, they do not seem to understand the benefit and opportunities of living in the USA. They act like it is heroic to attack first patriotism, then attack the President, then attack capitalism.
Their actions are exactly the opposite of heroic.
Very well said!
“despite what the lunatic in charge of our country tweets” Excuse me? After an into like that, I don’t give a damn what this jackass says.
She may end up with offers to be on television but it won’t be from sports networks.
Take the hint!
It will be renamed “The Five.” “Then eventually, “The Three.”
Then it will be named something like, “The Survivor.”
Who reads SI these days....other than ogling the swimsuit issue?
Who buys Sports Illustrated anymore except for the swimsuit edition?
I agree with you. I posted this article because he and his opinion represent his employer, Sports Illustrated, and his employer's parent company, Time Inc.
Sorry, I hadn’t read your post before posting mine!
She can join Van Jones over at CNN.
I don’t know who buys Sports Illustrated anymore. I haven’t seen it
displayed with the other magazines at the grocery store checkout counters for at least a decade.
The authors hissy fit aside, the key point is that even liberal reporters are now thinking that ESPN’s politicizing sports has been a huge catastrophic failure.
“...despite what the lunatic in charge of our country tweets....”
That’s where I stopped reading.
Van Jones has been very quiet for the last year or so.
Something has changed with him.
Maybe he’s getting the ‘Al Sharpton Treatment’ of being gently scooted off the prime time programming schedule.
I agree with the author that she’ll be gone by year’s end. I disagree that she’ll have all these great offers, unless they’re for some sort of Keith Doberman style sports reporter to political pontificator show. I think in the end she’ll wind up pissing off every boss she’ll ever work for and be just like the unibrow terror. Or she might grow a long beard like Letterman.
I am finally going to cut the cable, just to deprive ESPN of their $7.21 per month for crap I do not watch or agree with.
Eff Jimmy Traina in particular.
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