The raging political biases and lack of self-control by leaders and personalities at ESPN continue to drag politics into the network’s content.
The raging political biases and lack of self-control by leaders and personalities at ESPN continue to drag politics into the network’s content, no matter how little people want to be lectured to by a “several aspects of ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro’s tenure, mostly focused on his wheeling and dealing on streaming and broadcast deals to keep ESPN afloat.
The piece details that the murder of George Floyd in 2020 changed Pitaro’s perspective. According to Stephen A. Smith, one of the obnoxious on-air “talents” who has brought politics to the network’s airwaves for years, “It was unavoidable that we were going to find ourselves veering beyond the world of sports.” Elle Duncan, another toxic political voice, said Pitaro supports her talking about abortion or sex changes for children on air because “they’re not political issues.
Duncan is a run-of-the-mill progressive who thinks all her positions on politics aren’t political because they are all “human rights” issues, to the point that she uses halftime of basketball games toviewers, apparently with the support of Pitaro. But Smith’s comments are far more interesting: “It was unavoidable that we were going to find ourselves veering beyond the world of sports.”network.
ESPN should be far more concerned about the declining quality of its actual content, made most apparent by a blowhard in Smith being one of the most prominent faces on the network, than about trying to become like every other liberal political media outlet in the country. No viewers asked Smith or Duncan to lecture about politics, and certainly no one asked Pitaro to allow them to do so when viewers just want to watch sports.
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