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 buys Sports Illustrated anymore except for the swimsuit edition?
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.
Eff Jimmy Traina in particular.
Hopefully the end is near for ESPN.
The entire network of ESPN down in large part because they put way too much politics in general on it. The worst offenders are going to be down even lower. ESPN’s audience is dropping much faster than the cord cutter #s (which I think half of which are related).
It wasn’t so long ago that Chris Rock played ‘Nat X’ on SNL. Nat X was a stereotypical black power type complete with raised fists and loud voice who saw racism in everyone and everything, even if the sun went behind a cloud.
Nat X was a joke, an exaggeration, a character. But you would be hard pressed to tell the difference between Nat and the angry militants posing as anchors presenting sports news. But the joke is on them now.
SI...really? A dollar for their entire company would be an irresponsible investment.
Jamele Hill better start learning how to clean rooms and make beds or ask, "Would you like an apple pie with that?"
Shouldn’t Jemele Hill be out looting or something?
what Jemele Hill and ESPN fail to understand is that most people have no interest in racist a-holes like her when they want to watch or hear about sports. She is not smart enough to be interesting, and anyway when people feel like enjoying some sports viewing they are not looking for “social commentary” or Leftard b.s. opinions.
what Jemele Hill and ESPN fail to understand is that most people have no interest in racist a-holes like her when they want to watch or hear about sports. She is not smart enough to be interesting, and anyway when people feel like enjoying some sports viewing they are not looking for “social commentary” or Leftard b.s. opinions.
Similar to Colin's offers, eh?
For some of us, they were not relevant for a long time - I didn’t know they had something called “The 6” because ESPN disgusted me way before the NFL did.