Posted on 03/20/2021 2:46:17 AM PDT by John W
In a statement posted on his organization’s website, NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson called on the National Football League to “rethink” its relationship with Fox Corporation due to the way Fox News carries out “un-American attacks on those that stand for racial equity and justice,” including NFL players.
Saying that Fox News represents “the worst traditions of American broadcasting,” Johnson urged the NFL to distance itself from Fox given what the network “has done to harm its players and the franchise” and requested a formal meeting with league executives to discuss the “unscrupulous tactics employed by Fox to underwrite hate speech.”
“Fox actively exploits its Fox Sports licensing deal with the NFL by extracting increasingly high cable subscriber fees to subsidize Fox News programming,” Johnson wrote. “This is the same network that has used its hosts and personalities to regularly attack the NFL and its players for promoting racial justice. However, this is just one aspect of its inaccurate, incendiary coverage of racial injustice. Network personalities routinely attack Black Lives Matter and downplay the existence of systemic racism and police brutality. A league where nearly 70% of the players are Black and prides itself as America’s favorite sports pastime, should not be complicit in helping to increase the profits of Fox News. “
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Anyone that still watches sports is a fool. They HATE you.
But they REALLY hate YOU.
Make Derrick pay for it all.
I hate subscriber fees and google
no clicks for commies
Forgot all about sports on TV. Which is which — NFL is baseball and NAACP is soccer?
Trump made a big mistake in objecting to “taking a knee” during the National Anthem. /
Never accommodate. Whatever you do will never be enough for the left.
Same old, same old accusations. All rhetoric and hype but no examples - definitely no solutions other than Cancel Cultural.
This type of hype is making Chicken Little look like a prophet.
Fox should simply ignore this demand. Its nonsense.
The nfl is going to double it's TV revenues with this total TV package and there is no way that they will "rethink" any relationship that could impact it's new revenue flow.
The naacp is "rethinking" it's relationship with money.
I watched a couple of games yesterday. It’s not the same as I remembered. The commercials will turn your stomach, the announcers generally suck, the between game shows are unbearable. Even without the racism of the NCAA, I think I’m done with college sports too. Every player appears to be required to wear shirts that say, “Just Us” over the team name. Is this a sop to Black Lies Matter? Just Us OSU=Justice OSU (justice for Black Lies Matter).
I just do not care.
I stopped watching the NFL over a year ago for allowing disrespect to our flag by a collective of spoiled, black privileged millionaires.
Does the '/' indicate your way of stating sarcasm?
I assume that it is and hope that it is, because if it isn't, just Wow.
Eating their own lovin it
Fine, lower viewership even more.
I await my celebration of the death of the nfl. Cause of death: suicidal wokeness.
This organization of colored people is just feeling a bit left out, a bit irrelevant. That’s all there is to this most recent tripe.
Exactly how much of this social justice racism BS are we going to take? It’s nothing but blackmail.
“ Even without the racism of the NCAA, I think I’m done with college sports too.”
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Yeh, college sports as we know it is over. Players are lobbying for compensation and it appears the courts will support it. Remains to be seen how it will shake out. I’m guessing the major conferences will evolve into something similar to MBL with AAA, AA, A leagues feeding into the NFL. Some smaller schools will form non-scholarship leagues, perhaps some will still offer scholarships as compensation. Guess we shall see......
Me thinks you might find decaf beneficial. It seemed like a perfect sarcastic remark, and I don’t always see the subtleties of good sarcasm. I do agree with your premise if I’m wrong...Wow!
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