[Snickering Hound]

ESPN overpaid for NFL and NBA sports rights at the same time it was losing 12 million subscribers due to cord-cutting. Those millions in lost subscriber revenue, while still paying the fixed cost of TV rights deals, are driving the continuing layoffs, according to sources.

"I know it's a tough job but it was somebody's job to see the future — and they didn't," a source said. "Now viewers are going one way, costs are going the other, and nobody did the math."

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CNN and msnbc already covers ESPN turf....

[Robert A Cook PE]

“I know it's a tough job but it was somebody’s job to see the future — and they didn't,” a source said. “Now viewers are going one way, costs are going the other, and nobody did the math.”

But, but, but ...

“Math is hard!” And math and science are a “white man's construct” ... that have no place in today's society of gender studies and relative truth. Facts and arithmetic are evil, racist models.