OT: Questions about ESPN's 'News Service' - New England Patriots Forums

***maverick4*** · 02-14-2008, 10:11 PM

Lots of news articles on ESPN are claimed by 'ESPN News Services', and at the bottom it says something like 'information for this article was obtained from [x]', oftentimes from the Associated Press articles.

Now, over the past two years I noticed that their news service articles are essentially plagiarized or very generously paraphrased rehashes of the same article written elsewhere.

Why does ESPN do this, for what purpose?

***maverick4*** · 02-15-2008, 09:32 AM

anyone? ....

***richpats*** · 02-15-2008, 09:48 AM

Just remember what the "E" in ESPN stands for - ENTERTAINMENT. Sadly, the network is moving towards "Access Hollywood" rather than a sports news network.

***Clonamery*** · 02-15-2008, 09:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by richpats

Just remember what the "E" in ESPN stands for - ENTERTAINMENT. Sadly, the network is moving towards "Access Hollywood" rather than a sports news network.

They are owned by Disney.

LiveShot · 02-15-2008, 02:12 PM

I cancelled my insider subscription to ESPN after that beetch went on her rant damning and effing all things Notre Dame and God. Disney/ESPN will do anything for your entertainment dollar. Disney has talking animals and ESPN has talking empty heads.