ESPN has no shame........NO SHAME WHATSOEVER!!!!!

Observer · Sep 5, 2015

There is no reason for Brady to use the word apologize except to demand it.

signbabybrady · Sep 5, 2015

Wrath Mania said:
Stop this. Utterly moronic. What's the guy supposed to do, quit his job? You obviously have no idea what it's like to have to weigh between making a living and being a subordinate to unsavory people (i.e. you have no concept of the working world lol). It's not like his blog there has been a disaster from the start; before the NFL Nation crap when it was just him, Field Yates and Rodak it was the place to go to for NEP news. I hope he can get out, but until Volin chokes on a lego and the globe job opens up again, what do you want him to do? Just quit and become homeless so the more myopic Pats fans out there like you are appeased?

Can't say it enough you can't compare working as a journalist to working other jobs. As an employee, since I used it another thread, say I am a Garbage Man in NJ where Tony Soprano runs the Waste Management. What harm do I cause working for him and picking up his trash. Same corrupt guy owns the newspaper I write for and is willing to put propaganda out under my name where 100s of thousands of people will read it and believe a respected journalist wrote it.

PatsWickedPissah · Sep 5, 2015

signbabybrady said:
Can't say it enough you can't compare working as a journalist to working other jobs. As an employee, since I used it another thread, say I am a Garbage Man in NJ where Tony Soprano runs the Waste Management. What harm do I cause working for him and picking up his trash. Same corrupt guy owns the newspaper I write for and is willing to put propaganda out under my name where 100s of thousands of people will read it and believe a respected journalist wrote it.

You have led a sheltered existence. There are plenty of similar conflicts, legal firms, engineering firms, investment firms where similar situations arise. But at least in those instances there are more alternative firms for employment unlike journalism's shrinking numbers. Not everyone has a silver spoon fallback.

DarrylS · Sep 5, 2015

Didja ever think that if you ignored ESPN, Borges, Felger and all the rest of the naysayers they might just go away????

Reiss needs to find a new gig..

signbabybrady · Sep 5, 2015

PatsWickedPissah said:
You have led a sheltered existence. There are plenty of similar conflicts, legal firms, engineering firms, investment firms where similar situations arise. But at least in those instances there are more alternative firms for employment unlike journalism's shrinking numbers. Not everyone has a silver spoon fallback.

Yes there are other jobs where integrity matter too. And I don't have to like there either if integrity where ignored there too.

Because he chooses the pay check for the better of his family is his decision and that's fine just don't expect me to continue considering you the best local sports journalist and don't be surprised if I choose to read you less or not at all.

No where in any of my rantings have I suggested Reiss should do anything specific. Never said he should quit just saying if you work for ESPN I have no choice but to question the quality of your writing and more importantly the truthfulness of it.

Think about as good as Reiss is/was does it even matter if when you see a Reiss byline you wonder if Reiss wrote or ESPN just slapped his name on it.

Soul_Survivor88 · Sep 5, 2015

I'm really disappointed. I've sent this to the likes of Jerry Thornton and Tom Curran. Nobody have even batted an eye. I did receive a tweet from Christopher Price last night, but he said (his words) "that's a battle between Mike and his editors."

So it looks like ESPN will not be exposed for its disregard of journalistic integrity.

Was I naive to think people would actually care about this?

JoeSixPat · Sep 5, 2015

Fencer said:
Reiss' company screwed up; he apologized for the error. This is not the biggie people are making it out to be.

Yes, it is suggestive of their biases as to the facts of the matter, but that's nothing new.

No - it's not an over-reaction. The Erroneous Sports Propaganda Network has been willingly used by a $45 billion entity for hundreds of millions of reason$

They're all in now. I take Reiss at his word but there was a willing effort made to change what he wrote. This is not coincidence

flasox27 · Sep 5, 2015

I have an idea. Why don't Reiss and Tomase trade places. ESPN obviously wants someone without journalistic integrity and no one fills that bill better than the fat slob. Reiss may actually have hisstories reported accurately,

QuantumMechanic · Sep 5, 2015

JoeSixPat said:
They're all in now. I take Reiss at his word but there was a willing effort made to change what he wrote. This is not coincidence

I don't take Reiss at his word. He's a hostage in this. No matter what actually happened he had to say it was a mistake or else be fired. I'm sure that was quite intentional spin by ESPN. Now maybe, just maybe, there was an honest mistake in putting it out under Mike's byline. But there's no way in hell the wording was unintentional.

Fansince77 · Sep 5, 2015

Been ESPN free for years, don`t watch it and don`t listen to it on the radio, really not that hard to do. I like Mike Reiss allot (Watch him on Boston CBS and Patriots all access). Feel sorry for the guy, hes way better than most the hacks at ESPN.

Now I do have to watch ESPN if the Patriots are on and there is no other option, but the pepto bismol is always on hand just in case.

RobertWeathers · Sep 5, 2015

QuantumMechanic said:
I don't take Reiss at his word. He's a hostage in this. No matter what actually happened he had to say it was a mistake or else be fired. I'm sure that was quite intentional spin by ESPN. Now maybe, just maybe, there was an honest mistake in putting it out under Mike's byline. But there's no way in hell the wording was unintentional.

Or he could chose to say nothing at all.

He chose to call out his employer and stick up for himself.

He could have passed the buck to his editor.

Reckedtrek · Sep 5, 2015

Welcome to ESPN, Mike. May we ask that you leave your integrity at the door?

Mike's too good for that hack network. I wish that he and Bruschi could find something better for themselves. They both deserve it.

QuantumMechanic · Sep 5, 2015

I'm guessing that Reiss isn't exactly in a position to give up a salaried job and the health insurance that comes with it.

http://www.mikereiss.net/important-causes/

raduray · Sep 5, 2015

Observer said:
There is no reason for Brady to use the word apologize except to demand it.

If you actually read Brady's statement, you won't find that word in it.

Deus Irae · Sep 5, 2015

Ehh
Shame
Pays
Nothing

1960Pats · Sep 6, 2015

KontradictioN said:
To the idiotic American public? Roger Goodell.

To the idiotic American public? Tom Brady.

You can't really believe that the American public sees Goodell as a class act. Even the idiots know he isn't.

JoeSixPat · Sep 7, 2015

QuantumMechanic said:
I don't take Reiss at his word. He's a hostage in this. No matter what actually happened he had to say it was a mistake or else be fired. I'm sure that was quite intentional spin by ESPN. Now maybe, just maybe, there was an honest mistake in putting it out under Mike's byline. But there's no way in hell the wording was unintentional.

Agreed - I take Mike at his word that he didn't write that

If he says there's no anti-Pats conspiracy at ESPN I don't believe that for a second

BUSTAMOVE · Sep 7, 2015

I have no problem with Tom saying he apologizes for those he offended. I took it that he means people around him that he vented on. Thank god he is being sincere instead of scripted like this whole affair.

He won the lawsuit. Enjoy it for awhile. Stop caring how this or that will be taken by fans and media outside of NE. They are going to hate no matter what. I think a lot on this site have friends on the other side that razz each other and they don't want any misconstrued ammo for them. Who cares.

It was Tom being himself and hitting every talking point of which mattered to him the most of his ordeal.
I do not think it was scripted I believe he wrote from his heart on a late Friday night. A scripted reply would have been a released statement from the team. This was FB

MagicMarker · Sep 7, 2015

TheBostonStraggler said:
Yep, 15.2 billion reasons why ESPN will polish the NFL's apple regardless of the sliminess of it.
But there maybe good news for those of us who would like to see ESPN get their just desserts.

I don't think many people know ESPN is considered the third most valuable MEDIA company there is (based on revenue estimates -- the ESPN estimate is 60 billion). They are considered much more valuable than another of Disney's networks, ABC. Even though ABC has many many more total viewers throughout a program day, ABC's valuation is a paltry 3.2 billion. If ESPN was a standalone publicly traded company, that 60 billion would make it within the 80 most valuable companies on Wall Street, in the top 20% of the fortune 500. So why does this extremely valuable media company kowtow to the NFL much less anyone? From a numbers perspective ESPN should kowtow/fear no one. Something doesn't seem right about that.
That's where it gets interesting and why, IMHO, ESPN may consider changing their 'ESPN' logo to the silhouette of a house of cards and their jingle to *ESPN, the world leader in sports....debt*. First, ESPN is significantly overpaying market price for as well as contractually committing to many many billions for the rights to air top ticket sports (fyi, they recently paid ridiculously huge for NBA). Even with significantly less compelling and buzz generating NFL game matchups, they pay more than ABC, CBS, Fox per game. Second, and even more interesting about ESPN, they probably collect more money than any other fortune 500 company from consumers that do NOT use their product (as odd as that sounds it is probably true). 60% of ESPN's revenue (yes, 60%) comes from carry rights. I believe this means every single cable and satellite subscriber that has a viewing package that includes ESPN, that cable or satellite provider pays ESPN something like $5.50 per month for that subscriber (almost 4 dollars more than the next cable station on that list). Doesn't matter one bit if you don't watch or never would watch ESPN, ESPN makes 5.50 per month from you as a cable/satellite subscriber. That's certainly great news for ESPN. Hmmm, just thinking out loud, what happens if 'cord cutting' attracts more and more people? And what happens if cable/satellite providers are forced by the changing and shrinking full package subscriber market to go a la carte? Could it affect a company who has committed many many billions because they expect to collect many billions in revenue from the compelled fee payer market that is almost sure to shrink and even transform?

I'm not saying it will happen next year, however, it sure seems clear that ESPN is a house of cards. 60% revenue due to compelled fees from a consumer pool that is or will be shrinking and uninterested in paying for channels they don't watch or want? That seems the very definition of house of cards. While it won't wipe out ESPN it will permanently chop one of their legs off.
So unless ESPN can pull off some master stroke business move where they get sports consumers to pay very significantly higher $$$ for the right to watch their games and shows as well as they are able to somehow get Internet based TV watchers to pay up quite a lot to watch the ESPN content, ESPN's revenue will drop. In the end I'll call that just desserts

This post shows exactly why ESPN carries water for the NFL. If the NFL told ESPN they were moving to TNT, or FS1 or NBCSN, do you think ESPN could still get $5.50 per subscriber? They'd be nothing more than those other sports networks are now. They'd lose 60% of their revenue.

Soul_Survivor88 · Sep 7, 2015

To me, this is FAR worse than leaving Brady off a twitter promo. This was a misleading distortion that was falsely attributed to a reporter. What can be worse than that?

I'm still amazed no one has picked this up outside of the forum. Perhaps we give people like Jerry Thornton and Tom Curran too much credit

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