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ESPN layoffs
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Time and time again you show what a trash individual you are.
I can't stand his arrogant ass
ESPN, exclusive bastards...21st century and they don't even include a single minority on that list. Shocking I tell ya. Just shocking.
I write for a living, bud.
And yes, I'd say a good amount of sports fans could adequately do Dana's job given the time and resources. There are some elite writers but she sure isn't one of them. Most are a dime a dozen.
I know some sportswriters. To act like they know any more about sports than regular fans cracks me up.
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I'm sure most will find another gig. Business is business and the bottomline rules. However, knowing the financial bloodbath ESPN is currently suffering from, these dismissals seem the equivalent of throwing a deck chair off the Titanic.
Acting like any average Joe can write on par with someone with years of experience and a degree in journalism, is a hoot.
There might actually be something on FS1 now, so that's a plus I guess.
That could make things interesting. Take a bunch of talented folks who were let go by ESPN, give them an actual company behind them with the money to compete, and let them keep doing their jobs.
OR!
FS1 will hire the Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpes of the world to yell at each other and attempt to mimic ESPN's awful attempt at discussion in a worse way with no one watching.
That could make things interesting. Take a bunch of talented folks who were let go by ESPN, give them an actual company behind them with the money to compete, and let them keep doing their jobs.
OR!
FS1 will hire the Skip Bayless and Shannon Sharpes of the world to yell at each other and attempt to mimic ESPN's awful attempt at discussion in a worse way with no one watching.
As soon as cable/satellite providers start debundling channel packages, they will lay off a lot more than now.
Writing about sports- something millions have watched passionately their entire lives and many have played- isn't that difficult. We're not talking Middle Eastern politics here. Sports expertise is common.
There's a reason so many sports journalists feuded with the Matt Jones and bloggers of the world a decade ago- they proved that you didn't need a journalism degree to do the job.
Brennan was one of the better college basketball guys they had.
Why not get rid of Lunardi and his useless $2 million a year?
And for those saying people are awful for wishing people would lose their jobs....it's not like these people are making $50k a year. They will be fine. Most should be millionaires with the crazy amounts espn has paid them over the years.
Nah but it has become the same as Entertainment Tonight.
I don't get the political whining (granted I lean left) but it's easy to see they kept chasing a wider audience, alienating many diehards who don't give a ish about all the off the court crap.
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Not good personally for anyone to lose their job but ... like all the hand-wringing when the Gov faces a shutdown, many jobs really produce nothing. Heck I'd guess 60% of government jobs produce anything at all other than the people get a salary. Today, 52% of the people working on college campuses do nothing related to educating.
So while I take no delight in any person losing their job, it would be more impactful if their job was of any import. The ESPN bureaucracy is no exception.
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Not espn, other than when the cats are on. the personalities and politics on there pretty much turned me off. how bout you bro?
haha ok. Do you follow the NFL at all? He was one of their biggest reporters/analysts. Been there for 17 years.
No. thanks.haha ok. Do you follow the NFL at all? He was one of their biggest reporters/analysts. Been there for 17 years.
Up until many years ago i was an avid nfl fan, mlb and nba during the celtics/bird heydays. just lost interest.
I still love college sports, uk foremost.
Well if you weren't such a racist, tbey might actually give a damn what you think in the first place. Being that you're a UK fan and ESPN has been clear that you are indeed racist, I'm not sure why on earth you'd back any of them. Oh that's right, you're not even a UK fans are you Z?
I hope espn heads remain unemployed. Welcome to earth where people with low skills don't earn a million.
Or maybe you're just incredibly biased yourself and have trouble with any views that don't line up entirely with your own.
I don't see why this thread needs to turn political. This isn't a political issue. This is a technology issue.
I don't see why this thread needs to turn political. This isn't a political issue. This is a technology issue.
I'm a bit concerned with what pops up after the clean out, and where things go from there.
Kind of like the Middle east. Things weren't optimal with some of the people that were leading over there, but now, holy cow.
Would like to think that sports and keeping it simple is going to be the formula, sort of a back to basics movement, but I think we all know where things are going.
Kind of like the Middle east. Things weren't optimal with some of the people that were leading over there, but now, holy cow.
Would like to think that sports and keeping it simple is going to be the formula, sort of a back to basics movement, but I think we all know where things are going.
Don't pay much attention to espn save for maybe a Sunday night Cardinals baseball game or a UK game.
But how they can lay off more than 5-6 people before getting to Michael Smith & Jemele Hill, I have no idea.
Well, actually I do...we all do
But how they can lay off more than 5-6 people before getting to Michael Smith & Jemele Hill, I have no idea.
Well, actually I do...we all do
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None of those people were the people who were laid off. Most were from the news department
I asked for what specifically he was talking about. He said Outside the Lines, His and Hers, and a few other shows. I like to see where people's outrage is coming from so I ask for specifics and rarely get them. It's like when people Cal Call a cheater, I ask how he cheated specifically. I either get no reply, a did you just ask that, or UMass and Memphis which doesn't answer my question.
So far I just got 1 poster giving a specific in saying Caitlin Jenner getting the Arthur Asheville courage award.
She's going to stick around and move up, but not because she's as deep in to the cool aide as her counterparts, but because they need to throw the hounds off the scent.
"We're not going left, we have Sage...nothing to see here"
LOL .......of all the ACC guys to let go....... they let the former ACC now Big 10 Maryland Alum go in Len Elmore. Sheesh............
I hope ESPN goes under... I really do. Its time for several competing equal channels in sports so there isnt any more over the top ACC or one conference / one team type bias anymore
I hope ESPN goes under... I really do. Its time for several competing equal channels in sports so there isnt any more over the top ACC or one conference / one team type bias anymore
I really don't think ESPN's issues are because they have taken a turn towards political/cultural issues. Mainly, ESPN is hurting because forever people had to buy all the channels in a given package, so even if they didn't care about sports they got ESPN. Which is how ESPN was in 110 million homes, or whatever. The way content is delivered/received today, and especially into the future, should make ESPN pretty fearful. No longer will they have a captive audience. it's not quite like when the internet first hit, and you had the eureka moment where it dawned on you that, hey, newspapers are dinosaurs! But directionally it's the same thing.
Having said that, the foray into politics/cultural stuff - really, anything but sports - is just dumb. That they did that and decided to come down on the left side of those issues is especially dumb, strictly business wise. My guess is ESPN viewership is much higher in that middle part of the country that is always depicted in red on political maps. I read the other day that the Murdoch kids that are going to inherit Fox News and the rest of Rupert's empire are embarrassed when they go to their Manhattan cocktail parties about the conservatism at Fox, so they plan to tone that down. ESPN getting political reminds me of that. The people in Manhattan are never going to watch Fox (or ESPN) anyway, so you're trying to placate people who's opinions shouldn't matter, at the expense of running off your customer base....
Having said that, the foray into politics/cultural stuff - really, anything but sports - is just dumb. That they did that and decided to come down on the left side of those issues is especially dumb, strictly business wise. My guess is ESPN viewership is much higher in that middle part of the country that is always depicted in red on political maps. I read the other day that the Murdoch kids that are going to inherit Fox News and the rest of Rupert's empire are embarrassed when they go to their Manhattan cocktail parties about the conservatism at Fox, so they plan to tone that down. ESPN getting political reminds me of that. The people in Manhattan are never going to watch Fox (or ESPN) anyway, so you're trying to placate people who's opinions shouldn't matter, at the expense of running off your customer base....
http://deadspin.com/a-running-list-of-espn-layoffs-1794664091
Running list here. Sorry if already posted.
Running list here. Sorry if already posted.
You are completely wrong. The ul board said it's because they cover the SEC.
There's no shred of truth to me being a racist so I don't get super offended by anyone calling me a racist, let alone an unnamed ESPN employee calling me racist. It's like if someone called me a unicorn I wouldn't freak out and get all offended. That's hit dog syndrome behavior. Since I have never seen or heard anyone at ESPN call me racist, I will let you fake outrage on your own.
Brian Bennet and CL Brown both worked for the Courier Journal in the day, as did Forde of course.
Big picture, I wonder how this changes the world for young sports journalists out there. I get the impression ESPN - the Mothership - was always the carrot out there, the biggest, highest paying, most esteemed place to work, the goal all the young folks had was to get hired there. And, big as it was, they hired a ton of people. I'm guessing that has changed, effective today.
Big picture, I wonder how this changes the world for young sports journalists out there. I get the impression ESPN - the Mothership - was always the carrot out there, the biggest, highest paying, most esteemed place to work, the goal all the young folks had was to get hired there. And, big as it was, they hired a ton of people. I'm guessing that has changed, effective today.
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