ESPN - Polticizing Sport - No wonder

No wonder I find myself watching far less ESPN.
When I want sports and freedom for propaganda I turn on the golf channel.
The golf channel is frequently great for just kicking back and watching. I love it. Its a great way to relax before bed.

ESPN is now filled with landmines of truth twisting propaganda and issues promotion.
Its funny because the second half of espn sports center can be filled with all sorts of " social justice" propaganda. You just never know what type of segment stewart scott is going to introduce.
I was wondering if it was just me... getting burned out or getting middle aged.



http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2014/03/21/ESPN-and-the-Politicization-of-Sports

The question, considered obliquely by ESPN ombudsman Robert Lipsyte earlier this week, evokes a similar debate over the arts informally held more than seventy years ago. Albert Maltz, a Communist writer tired of advocacy journalism masked as literature, argued in The New Masses in favor of art for art’s sake. He confessed a weariness toward the attitude that “unless art is a weapon like a leaflet, serving immediate political ends, necessities and programs, it is worthless or escapist or vicious.”
This describes the self-hating sports journalist’s approach to the events he covers. Viewing athleticism as “worthless,” or “escapist,” or “vicious,” the egghead injects meaning into what he imagines as a meaningless enterprise by politicizing inherently apolitical competition. For the self-hating sports scribe, what happens “Outside the Lines,” as one of ESPN’s programs calls itself, deserves greater attention than what happens inside of them. Fans, who tune-in to ESPN to watch buzzer beaters rather than table thumpers, naturally complain to its ombudsman.
Lipsyte synthesizes the familiar grievance thusly: “Enough already about Michael Sam, Jason Collins, Richie Incognito, Jonathan Martin, concussions and the N-word. I turn on ESPN to get away from the stress of everyday life, to relax with my friends, to share some family time with the kids. Why do you keep shoving that stuff in my face?”
Eat it, Lipsyte essentially responds. “I don’t think ESPN is actually shoving enough of that stuff in enough faces often enough,” the ombudsman writes. “The coverage of issues that jump the white lines tends to be hit-and-run, treated as isolated events rather than as a web of Jock Culture attitudes and politics that are connected and need continual attention.”

 

ESPN was the home of left wing psycho Keith Olbermann. I believe he was hired back after getting booted off MSNBC. That sums up what they think of their viewers.

ESPN once had a monopoly, but there are plenty of alternatives now, from Fox Sports to NBC Sports, to Golf and Tennis Channels to NFL Network to Velocity, etc.

 

Olbermann is an egotistical psychopath, and im pretty sure he is an alcoholic. He got the nickname bathtub boy because he would always call in sick when there was bad things in the news regarding democrats. Apparently he is up to his old ways missing work all the time at ESPN. Below he explains all his strange absences saying he has shingles. Only Olby could be a big enough egomaniac that he makes you want to punch him, even while he is explaining how bad his supposed shingles are.

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I believe he also suffers from chronic diarrhea.

You really have to be full of shit to be spewing it at both ends.

 

Fastforeword to 3:23 for how e got the name bathtub boy.

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I might note... last night stewart scott introduced a long piece on the Arizona Gorilla and NBA mascots. That is what I want to see during ESPNs back nine.

that was a half entertaining piece. a little to much of an attempt at journalism but acceptable.

 

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