TH: It was another bad week for ESPN. Controversy erupted when host Jemele Harris tweeted that President Donald Trump was a white supremacist. The network said that this issue had been addressed, and that she readied her actions were inappropriate. Oh, and those tweets don’t reflect the position of ESPN—classic public elations move here. They also didn’t fire her. That’s fine. Frankly, I don’t think what Hill did was an offense that warranted termination. It was worthy of a reprimand and a social media torching. It was a stupid remark. We all know that.
Yet, where it gets into eyeroll territory is the whole fiasco with anchor Linda Cohn, who was suspended when she said that politics might be a contributing factor to ESPN’s declining subscription base. She said this in April:
Longtime ESPN anchor Linda Cohn believes the network’s embrace of political issues is at least partially to blame for falling subscription rates.
“That is definitely a percentage of it,” Cohn said, when asked Thursday on New York radio show “Bernie and Sid” if viewers were tuning out because of politics, according to the New York Post. “I don’t know how big a percentage, but if anyone wants to ignore that fact, they’re blind.”
ESPN has lost 10 million subscribers over the past five years as “cord-cutting” allows viewers to cancel their cable subscriptions in favor of online streaming services.
Like I said, ESPN is a network where you can call the president a racist, but get suspended if you criticize the network. Clay Travis of Outkick The Coverage, and a sports analyst for Fox Sports 1, reported on this development earlier this week and got a ton of statements from his sources within the network upon the Hill backlash. One employee said, “I’m tired of pretending this company is not full of s**t”
I’ve always been self employed, everyone knows I’m a republican, because I’m rich.
That’s what I’m told anyway
It’s the same way working in Chicago.
They will stab you in the back first chance they get.
It won’t matter ESPN probably won’t be around much longer.
Still have a subscription to ESPN via my Directv account but I never watch it. Just like the shopping and Disney channels. It’s just there.
All MSM is Liberal so it is pointless to watch any of it. Including FOX.
Show me any company led by executives who love to play Social Justice Warrior games and I’ll show you an agenda-driven company full of double standards run by peer pressure.
Not a good business recipe!
Yeah, I love sports but I don’t tune in to ESPN anymore – I don’t need to hear your incorrect view of the country when I want a score and highlights of a game.
Don’t watch none of it, I took a knee also.
high time for us, the customers, to pick and choose our own channels instead of having to by blocks chosen by others.