Nope. I only watch ESPN or BTN for the live games. I can't stand the pre-game shows anymore. There are times when I read the liveblog and watch the game on mute because it's brutal listening to Joey Galloway, Beth Mowens or the hacks on BTN.
Yep. The NFL already had deflategate be the opening headline on the nightly news on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, SportsCenter, etc. Speaking of the media, Chris Mortensen today deleted his tweet that started this story. So, the NFL drummed up a controversy that completely took the Domestic Violence narrative out of the media by feeding false information to ESPN. Shocking. Notice how we aren’t talking about woman beaters anymore, but instead talking about football inflation? Mission accomplished.
But as many people have learned when they tweeted something and then wished they could take it back, just deleting a mistake doesn’t make it go away. Mortensen’s tweet (“NFL has found that 11 of the Patriots footballs used in Sunday’s AFC title game were under-inflated by 2 lbs each, per league sources”) still lives in the many news stories that quoted it. And Mortensen’s tweet was used for months to shape the Deflategate story. Even though PFT and others cast doubt on the report almost immediately, and even though the Patriots pleaded with the league office to correct the record, official confirmation that the balls were not as under-inflated as Mortensen’s source claimed didn’t come until the Wells Report was released months later. That’s been one of the maddening things about the whole Deflategate mess: Accurate information has been hard to come by, and the gaps have been filled with inaccurate information. Mortensen’s “2 lbs each” tweet was one of the big pieces of inaccurate information. It’s now off Mortensen’s Twitter timeline, long after the damage was done.
Don’t let accurate information get in the way of a good story. I’ve lost all respect for Mortensen and ESPN.
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Nope. I only watch ESPN or BTN for the live games. I can't stand the pre-game shows anymore. There are times when I read the liveblog and watch the game on mute because it's brutal listening to Joey Galloway, Beth Mowens or the hacks on BTN.
They said it was a bad microphone/speakers lol
After Denard went down, it was all downhill from there.
Yep. The NFL already had deflategate be the opening headline on the nightly news on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, SportsCenter, etc. Speaking of the media, Chris Mortensen today deleted his tweet that started this story. So, the NFL drummed up a controversy that completely took the Domestic Violence narrative out of the media by feeding false information to ESPN. Shocking. Notice how we aren’t talking about woman beaters anymore, but instead talking about football inflation? Mission accomplished.
Six months later, Mortensen deletes inaccurate Deflategate tweet
But as many people have learned when they tweeted something and then wished they could take it back, just deleting a mistake doesn’t make it go away. Mortensen’s tweet (“NFL has found that 11 of the Patriots footballs used in Sunday’s AFC title game were under-inflated by 2 lbs each, per league sources”) still lives in the many news stories that quoted it. And Mortensen’s tweet was used for months to shape the Deflategate story. Even though PFT and others cast doubt on the report almost immediately, and even though the Patriots pleaded with the league office to correct the record, official confirmation that the balls were not as under-inflated as Mortensen’s source claimed didn’t come until the Wells Report was released months later. That’s been one of the maddening things about the whole Deflategate mess: Accurate information has been hard to come by, and the gaps have been filled with inaccurate information. Mortensen’s “2 lbs each” tweet was one of the big pieces of inaccurate information. It’s now off Mortensen’s Twitter timeline, long after the damage was done.
Don’t let accurate information get in the way of a good story. I’ve lost all respect for Mortensen and ESPN.
You forgot 21.