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I love the title: ESPN: The sports leader in embarrassment
I love the title: ESPN: The sports leader in embarrassment
Once, ESPN's hallmarks were Chris Berman's inventive sports-star nicknames and the witty byplay between Keith Olbermann and Dan Patrick on SportsCenter. Now, when you turn on ESPN, you're likely to see people shouting mindlessly at one another on one program or another.
ESPN -- which officially stands for the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network -- may someday decide to change that handle to say: The SPORTS and Entertainment Programming Network, just to get its priorities in order (though that stiff new acronym would need a little work, I admit).
ESPN's staff shouldn't try so hard to be controversial. The network would have fewer embarrassments. "We'd rather the scoreboard says none," Walsh said. "But if the scoreboard says three (examples), we endure." He called them "three separate instances" and added: "Trying to group them together, I think, would not be a wise thing for you."
Then call me unwise, Mr. Walsh. I'm not buying your argument.
In the news business, journalists will chalk up something out of the ordinary as an aberration. But when it happens twice, we wonder if it is a pattern. By the third time, it can reasonably be called a trend.
ESPN rejects the idea that there is a pattern of recklessness in its ranks, but I'm not so sure.
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