OT/ESPN: Expect the shilling to grow still more shameless
Many of us have noted the degree to which ESPN shills for the SEC. But amid the budget and personnel cuts, the profit-seeking, much of the remaining pretense of balance or journalistic integrity is being abandoned at the sports media giant. Very good piece at Deadspin chronicles the continued downdrift of an organization that once struck fear in the hearts of the most powerful people in sports. One tactic being urged for on-air personnel: mention Tim Tebow repeatedly, whether he's doing anything at all:
"Given that ESPN has deals with nearly every major league—and ignores the ones with which it doesn't have deals—the question has become inescapable: How can the company produce honest journalism when it's in business with, well, everybody?"
https://deadspin.com/5929361/how-espn-ditched-journalism-and-followed-s…
EDIT: Mods please delete. I was drawn to a group of articles about the cuts at ESPN and this came up. Having just heard Tebow's rant--echoes of Urban Meyer and UM--about how Wisconsin shouldn't get in the CFP at Alabama's expense, I assumed it was current.
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I've seen posts linking articles a few days old that I thought were silly cause everybody here obviously saw it and discussed it but five years old? Now that's something.
MgoBlog HOF worthy IMO. Not everyday you see a breathless post quoting a aricle written half a decade ago.
Well done OP.....well done.
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Because Tebow went on First Take and sounded like a raving loon who needed to be restrained by orderly's? I heard that rant listening to LeBatard, he contradicted his own argument claiming Wisconsin didn't play anyone when in fact, Alabama has somehow played a worse schedule than Wisconsin. SEC bias ain't going away, no matter how meh the conference gets. So long as PAWLLL has goddamn Phyllis from Alabama and all of her mouthbreathing bretheren to call in and yell about the Tide, SEC bias lives. Like the many threads about holding not getting called, I question why you are beating a horse that has been dead for five years.
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Social justice and politics before sports and sportsmanship.
The deserve to fail.
As for bias, nothing shuts up the critics quite like winning all of your football games.
Go Badgers!
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