Please remove whoever made Caitlyn/Bruce Jenner the most courageous person in 2015! Whoever decided to give "it" the Arthur Ashe Courage Award on national TV should be fired. We have people losing limbs every day fighting for our freedoms far more courageous than "it" and he won't even go all the way and cut off the family jewels to make it complete. What a joke.
Really sucks for the employees, hate to see that.
Obviously BKFs post is politically backed, but the tweet below really isn't wrong. ESPN has been heading down this path now for quite a few years. It's the direction they chose and these are the results.
DavidF 2 hours ago
news flash for the media- When you merge politics with sports/entertainment/news or anything else, you #$%$ off half of your audience. And eventually lay off half your employees.
Did you ever read a good Dana O'Neil article?In 15 posts we have people cheering other people getting fired, and an old man talking about ESPN's ratings being reduced because of their liberal views.
Welcome to the internet.
That factor hasn't been mentioned as much, but the development of each league's own network has played a big role in ESPN's diminished presence in sports. If you love Football, Baseball, Basketball, Hockey, Tennis, Golf, Soccer, Motor Sports, there are networks now solely dedicated to whatever sport you prefer that can get to the granular detail that ESPN can't. Same with the development or the SEC and Big 10 Networks. ESPN is no longer the source for info about any particular sport. By cutting the reporters that cover those sports, ESPN is essentially conceding that they can't compete with the single sport centric networks.
Did you ever read a good Dana O'Neil article?