ESPN Profit Plummets As Network Turns Left

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ESPN promotes Connor Schell to the #2 position behind Skipper this week. Schell very outspoken liberal and Donald Trump hater. They aren't even trying to hide it now.
 
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05_never_again said:
The only "agenda" they have is making money. They have concluded that an insertion of liberal politics into their coverage is a way to make their non-sports programming relevant again.

Best I can tell, it is part of a three-pronged strategy:
1. Heavy coverage of what happens on social media
2. Insertion of non-sports pop culture (music, movies, non-sports celebrities, etc.)
3. Insertion of liberal politics/SJW-type angles into sports stories.

When you look at it that way, I think it becomes more clear that they don't have an ideology but are simply going after their demographic, which is predominantly 18-35 year old males.

Remember, shows like SportsCenter are totally irrelevant if you run them like you did in 1999. You have to do something different to get people to pay attention to them, so you try really hard to be "hip" (the new SportsCenter with Michael Smith and Jemele Hill is Exhibit A of this) and controversial.
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I agree 100% with this. back when we first got cable (30+ years ago) ESPN showed every kind of sport imaginable. Now with so many different media outlets to get information from and the ability to cover a subject from every angle possible, ESPN has just branched out.

I remember when Allen Iverson was bringing hip-hop into the NBA, people didn't like it. Today's athletes, entertainers and celebrities are all intertwined and it becomes news. There are only so many baseball clips you can show. The opinion shows are good but some of the hosts are annoying.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
Actually she didnt say that. Colin Kaepernick said that and she slightly agreed by saying "inflammatory, but historically true."

Clearly the writer of the article has a problem with her. He goes out of his way to point out her grammatical errors in her tweets. Seen the POTUS' twitter lately?
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Breitbart lying? Whoda thunk? I hate politics being drug into my sports. If it wasn't for ESPN's SEC coverage, I definitely would shut them off. Probably will after football season.
 
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Stealing is what the colleges, coaches, NCAA, and SEC are doing to kids which are actually the product. Cry me a river. No, its not stealing. Half the content on youtube is either other people's work, a derivative of other's work, or using other's people work.... so. At the most, it could be called copying.
 
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LSU-SIU said:
Stealing is what the colleges, coaches, NCAA, and SEC are doing to kids which are actually the product. Cry me a river. No, its not stealing. Half the content on youtube is either other people's work, a derivative of other's work, or using other's people work.... so. At the most, it could be called copying.
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So it's not stealing, it's copyright infringement. And copyright inringement is stealing intellectual property. So, are you saying that kind of theft is okay?
 
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bamawriter said:
So it's not stealing, it's copyright infringement. And copyright inringement is stealing intellectual property. So, are you saying that kind of theft is okay?
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Do you speed in your car? Run a red light? Ever been fishing with out a license? Paid your taxes late?
 
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Obsessed said:
Do you speed in your car? Run a red light? Ever been fishing with out a license? Paid your taxes late?
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You're talking about bending government rules and he's talking about ****ting all over a private, American company and then enjoying their services without paying for them.

One of these is not like the others.
 
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n_huffhines said:
You're talking about bending government rules and he's talking about ****ting all over a private, American company and then enjoying their services without paying for them.

One of these is not like the others.
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The same company that enjoys the services of college athletes without paying them?
 
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Obsessed said:
Do you speed in your car? Run a red light? Ever been fishing with out a license? Paid your taxes late?
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No on the last two.

But even when I commit a traffic violation, I don't tell myself that it's okay. I don't cook up some mental gymnastics to justify it.
 
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allvol123 said:
The same company that enjoys the services of college athletes without paying them?
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ESPN would still broadcast games if players got paid. That's not up to them. They don't pay pro players when they broadcast the NFL, MLB, etc.

While I firmly believe that the NCAA's model is wrong, it doesn't justify me stealing from the conferences and their media partners. This is not some moral quandry like a starving man stealing bread. If I don't like the politics of the owner of my local hardware store, or I think he's mistreating his employees, it wouldn't mean it's okay for me to go in there and steal hammers.
 
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