Here is why the "ESPN is so liberal and that's why their ratings are down" makes no sense. It's not as if you can just call up Cox, Time Warner, etc and say that you want to cancel ESPN and keep all your other cable channels. For example if your cable bill is $120, you can't say you ate the libtards at ESPN but you love watching Skip debate Shannon Shapre and you want to pay $114 a month for cable instead.

So the only way to defend the argument is to say that ESPN's new liberal agenda is so infuriating to hundreds of thousands of people that out of spite they are choosing to cancel their cable packages outright. So ESPN being liberal is so awful that they want to get stop paying for TNT, Disney, FX, Fox Sports, and yes, even Fox News.

This is a stupid argument. It might hold water if more than .1 percent of the population kicked their dogs every time Jemele Hill tweeted about race, but the Tigerdroppings is not indicative of real life. And that's also why there aren't 15 college baseball channels out there.

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Posted by Keys Open Doors

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Posted on 5/8/17 at 6:44 pm to Keys Open Doors

Also, let's look at Frank Whitlock's motivation for writing the article. He used to do whatever he could to win favor with the first batch of Deadspin writers after Will Leitch left. I am referring to the Craggs, Scocca, Petchesky, Daulerio crowd. At this point only Petchesky is left and he is by far the least outrageous and opinionated of the bunch.

Then when he came back to ESPN to run the Undefeated, he went out and recruited their primary race/civil rights guys, at the time their only black employee, an intern named Greg Howard. Howard then wrote a series of articles showing how incompetent Whitlock was at managing the Undefeated, how he was in over his head, and within months, Whitlock was fired and had to go back to Fox Sports for pennies on the dollar.

He is perhaps the least objective person when it comes to Deadpsin who isn't named Hulk Hogan.

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Posted by Lou Pai

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Posted on 5/9/17 at 8:03 am to Keys Open Doors

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Here is why the "ESPN is so liberal and that's why their ratings are down" makes no sense. It's not as if you can just call up Cox, Time Warner, etc and say that you want to cancel ESPN and keep all your other cable channels.

That is not the argument.

Their gross ratings are down in large part because the quality of their product is diminished. Much of this is culture/politics, in that they have chosen to alienate a large contingency of their base, either directly or indirectly.

Moreover, as I mentioned earlier, ESPN was once thought of as cord-cutting-proof. It is perfectly logical to suggest that this was a last reason for many people to keep cable, since it used to represent, on a per-channel basis, double the price of the next channel. Thus, the marginal effect of this SJW phenomenon, while subtle on the surface, can certainly have an outsized incremental impact.

As I have pointed out from beginning of this thread, it's a complicated issue. Don't really care to entertain your lazy, redneck kicking a dog imagery, since that is pretty simplistic. But throughout this decline for ESPN, many posters on here have dismissed the impact the agenda has had on the network. I don't care if it's Whitlock saying it. Do you think Linda Cohn is also a self-serving clown?

This post was edited on 5/9/17 at 8:10 am

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