Think they'll learn their lesson with all the backlash or

Any backlash is just white male Trump supporters who don't grovel at the knees of the handful of niggers left on ESPN begging forgiveness. ESPN gives no fucks.

Until they go under and fire the gorillas.

Just like the Democratic party after the election they'll double down on yelling "racist, bigot, homophobe, sexist, muhsoggyknees" and wonder why no one listens to the anymore.

>>75524991
I think Disney is going to axe them eventually or sell them

all the shit espn puts out besides live sports is pointless. A literal waste of time. Highlight shows are obsolete. Opinion shows are tired and overdone at this point. The pop culture and politics shit isn't even sports related.

I don't care to listen to some celebrity rapper talk about random shit.

Backlash from what? Their industry is dying, they're finally, slowly making smart financial decisions. Probably too little too late since dinosaur TV channels are doomed no matter what. I guess OP is one of those people who likes to pretend there is a political slant to everything that everyone does, it seems a bit childish desu.

>>75525395
The 30for30s are normally bretty gud.

If I can watch the sportscenter show like a podcast and all they had to get rid of are fat contracts, I'll take it. Right wingers getting mad is just a bonus

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Lets see, they fired all of their reporters and kept everyone who publishes faggotry like this.

So no, they didn't learn their lesson because they don't want to learn the lesson. ESPN is going through what MTV went through, the difference being ESPN is voluntarily doing it. Disney is OK if ESPN becomes an irrelevant has been network, because then it wouldn't be an anchor holding Disney down.

>>75524991
Liberals are stupid and will always double down in an attempt to prove that they are right

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I ADMIRE YOUR WORK LOOKING FORWARD TO CROSSING PATHS

I ADMIRE YOUR WORK LOOKING FORWARD TO CROSSING PATHS

I ADMIRE YOUR WORK LOOKING FORWARD TO CROSSING PATHS

I ADMIRE YOUR WORK LOOKING FORWARD TO CROSSING PATHS

>>75529924
I really hate that faggot

>>75524991
the politics is only a small part of it, their retarded sport contracts, failing business model, and cord cutting are much much bigger problems.

>>75529981

Of course cordcutting is the driving factor, but it's stupid to assume that ESPN alienating the majority of sports fans had no impact on that cordcutting. There are many people who only get cable/sat for sports. If ESPN is unwatchable, why keep it?

>>75530000
didn't say it had no impact, just that there's no "lesson" for espn to learn because their business is fucked.

the leftist bullshit was gasoline on the fire

>>75524991
>wasted millions on the NFL on a dying (cable) platform

We did it guys, we showed those Libs for triggering us! Boycotting is for Red Blooded Americans now!

Pathetic.

>>75530077
How mad are you?

>>75530202
I am a bombston fan - I hate the ESTMZ channel. I think it's funny the Right thinks this is all due to SJW stuff and has nothing to do with Monday Night Football sucking and Cable dying. I cut my cord because of shitty channels.

>>75530231
Noone thinks it's literally all because of the sjw stuff, but it obviously didn't help them, a large subscriber base has various reasons for shrinking, mainly the content on the channel is just not good or insightful

>>75530265

>Noone thinks it's literally all because of the sjw stuff

You clearly haven't read any of the threads on /spol/ about the firings.

Disney overpaid for NBA and NFL rights and it didn't boost subscriptions. No way out of the spiral now.

>>75530363
Right? For example this entire thread.

>>75530616
B-but the Kaep?!

Andy Katz gone

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>>75529888
>>75530000
>>75530022
>>75530077
this is now a dubs thread

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>>75531055

>>75531055
It was always a dubs thread.

I AM GROOT

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>>75531222
>>75532688

>>75524991
they're incredibly avoidable if you follow amerisports.

If you don't use them again untill they become normal again, instead of whining on twitter or something then they will probably revert back

Literally only watch ESPN for international soccer cups, PTI sometimes, and the occasional soccer match they have rights to like the DFB Pokal. Besides that there is literally no reason. They don't even have the exclusive rights to any league.

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>>75535873
>international soccer cups
>the occasional soccer match they have rights to like the DFB Pokal

You have to go back

>>75531055
>>75531222
>>75532688
>>75530077
>>75530022
>>75530000
>>75529888

good lord

>>75525416
>likes to pretend there is a political slant to everything that everyone does
You can't really say this while on the topic of ESPN, buddy

>>75524991
Who gives a shit they don't even talk sports anymore.

>>75530363
>literally all
You clearly haven't been reading too clearly then. Everyone is mentioning that it is a FACTOR in it, and a major reason for the drastic opinion shift on the reputation of the brand in the eyes of consumers. The only people trying to pretend that people are saying "literally all" are the buttblasted lefties trying to bury it's effect on the company through exaggeration.

>>75530231
statistically, half your country thinks like 'the Right'

which means espn's decisions are alienating half their potential audience from the get go

it's quite significant portion

I really can't believe that companies and large political parties would rather continue to complain and bank on special snowflakes than actually doing their job. They'd rather go under and scream bloody murder the whole time than make money.

What a weird world we live in.

>>75525416
>ESPN
>no political slant
They're owned by Disney, ya dingus. Literal brainwashing.

>>75539226

Journalism and media by extension became much more liberalized in the past few decades, first in universities

Journalism schools are left wing hot beds and we're starting to see the fruits of this as the products of these schools take a demographic hold across the media

they are unable to be impartial or even truly capitalist, it's a self correcting problem but it may take time and pain

>>75524991

The best part about ESPN is that it's one stop shop. You can get your news, current events, pop culture, hear from our favorite rappers and hear about some of their new projects, etc. And sometimes you can see a highlight or something.

Some of you numbnuts are actually arguing that alienating half the fanbase didn't hurt ESPN. Really?

>>75540681
leftie "activists" are in full damage control mode because they can't wrap their heads around just why everyone hates them
>b-but we're the GOOD guys

This is a thinly veiled "please read our board" post from /pol/. Sad!

>>75540928
>not "Many such cases!"
shit tier memery there, reddit

Loving every minute of the ESJW downward spiral

They deserve it so much

>>75541495
Is it bad that I find the esjw thing hilarious?

>>75541268
/pol/ is by far the most reddit board though.

>>75541610
/sp/ has far more reddit crossposters than /pol/ crossposters

>>75539666
>Journalism schools are left wing hot beds and we're starting to see the fruits of this as the products of these schools take a demographic hold across the media

You do realize that Fox News is the most watched news network in the country, and the
former leader of Breitbart is the President's chief strategist

>people unironically believe ESPN is losing money because of muh libruls

It's because cable TV is dying you retards.

>>75541610
WRONG!

>>75541644
Keep telling yourself that leaf.

>>75541737
Oh wow, TWO whole media outlets? How can the thousands of leftist outlets deal with such a monopoly

>>75541751
Yes. And in this case it's also to do with ESPN's terribe business decisions, horribly negotiated TV rights deals, and subscriber alienation due to overly politicized shift in content.

Stop acting like everyone is saying the latter part is the sole reason. It's silly, you look silly acting like that. It's just the most entertaining facet of this for us to talk about because of sweet karmic justice.

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>>75529888
oops

... But what if this is all just a plan by Disney to make everything they own (RE: EVERYTHING) so politicized that people will stop caring about everything in popular culture and turn into sheeple?

>>75525268
...Democrats are headed for sweeping victories in 2018 for this very reason

>>75535916
>le only Mexicans watch soccer xDDDDDDD amirite /pol/? Who /pol/ here? DAE brown people??????? God Emperor Trump will surely fix this country by cutting corporate taxes because le trickle down economics worked so well in the past!
Kill your fucking self.

>>75542019
Why do conservatives constantly play themselves to be the victim? America is the most right-wing of all developed, Western nations on the planet. The vast majority of the people here are religious, the entire federal government is ran by republicans, and the majority of state governors are republicans, on top of the fact that the leader of a website that popularized the alt-right movement is the president's right hand man.

And outside of maybe 1/3 of white people, there's really no demographic that's truly liberal. Women overwhelmingly voted Trump, Asians are very socially conservative, and Blacks and Mexicans are extremely religious as well as conservative on social issues that aren't directly about them.

>>75542415
>claim you're not Mexican
>getting this assmad
top jaja, Pedro

>>75542540
Because the left-wing is just a bunch of petty tyrants in this day and age. You can't complain about someone "playing the victim" when they try calling you out on your bullshit.

>>75524991
http://nypost.com/2017/04/27/sportscenter-anchor-agrees-politics-are-hurting-espn/

>>75541751
>there are people who are so stupid they cant see how being political can push viewers away (whether its liberal, conservative, socialist, or anything else)

>>75542540
>alt right

back to huffpo

>>75525416
Childish is being a smug about being an uninformed dipshit like you are

http://www.espn.com/blog/ombudsman/post/_/id/831/not-sticking-to-sports-the-right-move-for-espn

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>>75542540
They live in a world of anger and fear. They don't know why they feel this way or what to do about it. They need someone to blame. The easiest target is people not like them, or their family, or their friends or their neighbors. The exist in bubbles of conformity and delusion. They are very easily triggered and consumed by their beliefs. They are defined by the actions of others.

>>75543487
>this fucking projection
The amount of mental hoops you have to jump through so your massive ego can rationalize why someone would ever disagree with your perfect flawless opinions is staggering.

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>>75543487
i bet you thought hillary was going to win in a landslide

liberals were put of touch

ITT : people who hate and "don't care" about a television channel following its every move and promoting online discussion about these moves.

Why are we even discussing this in the first place? ESPN is trash, cable television is trash, and if you watch either you should feel dumb.

Honestly if you support any politician or mainstream American political ideology you're a brain washed retard.

Trump doesn't care about you and won't change shit about this country

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>>75525416
>too stupid to discern the obvious political slant on espn
if only we could shoot retarded people i.e. yourself

>>75542540
>implying playing victim is reserved to conservatives
>mfw
Playing victim is not reserved to one political ideology.
I live in Australia and even I know your Californian universities are over-run with fags and dykes on the extreme left of the political spectrum playing the victim card, perhaps more excessively and needlessly than conservatives.
>muh toiletz!! muh safespaces!!

>>75543487
>The exist in bubbles of conformity and delusion. They are very easily triggered and consumed by their beliefs

Right wing and nationalistic beliefs are in no way promoted or advocated in media of any kind outside of AM radio shows. Right thinking people's beliefs are constantly challenged, satirized, parodied, attacked.

If you're a run of the mill leftist you can consume media all day and never hear anything you disagree with or anything that challenges your politicial or social beliefs.

>>75540923
This
Progressive commies are losing their shit because they see they are the ones on the wrong side of history. Just look at places like Berkley for example

> not expecting espn to double down

http://www.espn.com/blog/ombudsman/post/_/id/831/not-sticking-to-sports-the-right-move-for-espn

>>75543487
Perfectly sums up liberals

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Think they'll learn their lesson with all the backlash or will they just double down on their reasoning?

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>>75544100

remember when ESPN was mostly sports?

those were good times

>>75544567
see>>75544424

>>75544567
Liberals are retards and always double down
See
>>75544424

>>75524991
The NBA deal is basically chokeholding the company into submission. They'll double down, of course.

If they want to fix ESPN, they need to clean house with everyone except Kornheiser/Wilbon/SAS/Max. Bring back Jay Crawford to moderate First Take. Bring Spero Dedes to call play-by-play for NBA games. Then, get new young talent on long term deals for Sportscenter.

>>75544209
Fucking this. Absolutely autopsied.

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>>75544680
>>75544682
>those posts
>that timing
>that unawareness to what they were responding to
lel

I think they have significantly better knowledge of the circumstances of their business than your wishful thinking.

It had nothing to do with your snowflake ideology

>>75545642
>snowflake ideology

Liberals trying to co-opt the term that describes them. Sad!

>>75544209

Whatever makes you sleep better at night.

The fact that people "need" to identify with what side they are on mirrors sports and fan-aticism in general. People just tune into what they want to hear and today its even easier to pick and chose because you have so many options.

Much like team colors people wear, I think its more important for people to be easily identifiable just so people can feel more comfortable in their own space knowing where the lines are.

The only thing righties and lefties are challenged with is where the next echo is going to come from so they are reminded how righteous their view are.

>>75545802
no u

faggot

Remember when ESPN wasnt ESJW?

I do.

I used to watch.

Not anymore.

They decided to add politics to their coverage and lost the half of their audience that hates their politics and that part of the apolitical who doesnt want any politics in their sport coverage.

Smart.

>>75544684
>Kornheiser/Wilbon/SAS/Max

Jesus you are why this channel is so shit

>>75545911
>The fact that people "need" to identify with what side they are on mirrors sports and fan-aticism in general. People just tune into what they want to hear

That's the goddamn reason behind the hatred towards ESPN nowadays you imperceptive buffon. It wasn't "pick a side" until they shifted straight into far-left wonderland. People just wanted to tune into sports not have propaganda shoved down their throats.

>>75546164
I remember having sportscenter on loops for 4-5 in the summer when I was a kid. That's all I want, fucking sports and scores with maybe a 2-3 minute breakdown if it was a great game

>>75524991
>watching MEMESPN

>>75546516
Kornheiser and Wilbon are objectively good though, at least Tony is. And SAS/Max aren't getting fired ever, that's clear.

>>75524991
Politics hurt espn a little but not as much as the bad contracts they signed with basketball, baseball, tennis. They over paid for so much. It's only going to get worse as people cut the cord who find out they don't need espn as more and more channels go on demand.

If you think political ideology is what contributed to the layoffs then you are an edgelord. They got two idiots on still at 10AM and 6PM and the person who runs the show is still there. The people at Disney can do math I'm sure and probably saw that making snow flake conservatives mad didn't fuck their shot up as much as the amount they overpaid to broadcast apehoop regular season which nobody cares about.

>>75547532
t. liberal

>>75547532
>>75542019

>>75524991
How can espn make any money when almost all of their content is in a podcast where you can skip adds?

The games? There is not enough interest outside individual markets except for post season which is just a month long. Politics is minor issue. For a company that thought they were hip and cool sure did not keep up with the times.

>>75529924
> Saying this on Twitter and not personally
What a fuccboi

>>75529924
Typical Italian.

>>75542259
Not if the GOP forces Trump to step down and let someone else run in 2019.

>>75524991
They can layoff everyone and those retarded contracts will still be there. And now the have to double down on pushing the NBA while players sit whenever they want.

>>75548391
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
>2019

Stupid leaf

>>75547245
PTI is the reason the station is shit now. 2 idiots yelling at each other...Yeah those 2 idiots happen to be fairly knowledgeable but they were the archetype

>>75535873
>DFB Pokal


Bayern wins. Literally not worth watching ever. German soccer is fucking trash

>>75541610
Nope /sp/ and /mu/ have a fucking massive amount of cross posts from reddit. Also /tv/ has become reddit tier

>>75548391
Who are the Dems gonna run that can beat Trump? Only 1 in 5 Democrats think the party is in tune with the average American. That's just Dems. Something like 40% of voters like Trump. Dudes gonna smash anyone from within the party. Dems only option now is to run someone like Michael Jordan honestly

>>75544209
>Right wing and nationalistic beliefs are in no way promoted or advocated in media

Except from the most watched news channel in America, and the president's own mouth.

>>75550305
>the most watched cable news channel in America
ftfyr

>>75550305

one channel which has become the last bastion of any semblance of conservative thought in an incredibly liberalized media landscape

>>75548273
wat did he mean by this?

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>>75550625
>buzzwords

>>75544209
>Right wing and nationalistic beliefs are in no way promoted or advocated in media of any kind outside of AM radio shows. Right thinking people's beliefs are constantly challenged, satirized, parodied, attacked.
>If you're a run of the mill leftist you can consume media all day and never hear anything you disagree with or anything that challenges your politicial or social beliefs.
obviously depends on what you watch or listen to.

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>>75550305
>president's own mouth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7UcQcD9INI

>>75550968
There wasn't a single buzzword in that man's post you dunce.

>>75546164
Yep. Haven't watched in 3 years except for CFB. It's insufferable.

>lots of baseball games going on
>NBA playoffs
>NHL playoffs
>ESPN has done nothing but talk about the NFL draft


fuck this """""sports""""" channel

>>75542259
Are you joking? Only eight seats are up for Republicans in 2018 and seven of them are in deep red states. The Democrats, if anything, are going to get fucked just as hard as they did last year

>>75524991
>viewership starts dropping
>profits start going with it
>???
>just fire more people to reduce costs
Fool-proof business model desu

I'm trying to understand if /sp/ is really so incomprehensibly retarded that they think the reason ESPN had to cut all these staff is because their new SJW tilt made them lose a ton of viewers, and not because of the massive cable cutting making them lose hundreds of millions in revenue they paid for these sports airing fees thinking they could afford it

/sp/ can't be that stupid, right?

>>75546164
Do what do you watch now?

>>75553574
i stopped watching sports coverage altogether. espn, fox sports 1, all that shit

i dont need other people telling me what i should think about sports

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>>75553512
>/sp/ can't be that stupid, right?

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>>75553512
I don't think they know ESPN was losing subscribers before Trump decided to run for president.

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>>75535873
I watch mike&mike in the Am while waiting for Jim Cramer to go on his morning rant @ CNBC
>kill me plz

>>75553684
i mean i'll admit that im liberal, and i dont watch espn at all besides live sports and havent for years, and i hate having to see clips of their social justice bullshit

but i still don't believe that people are so stupid that they think espn's sjw shift is why they have to fire people

>>75553733
>>75553684

Nobody is saying that it is the only the reason, but you'd be pretty damn stupid to say it hasn't played a part

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Don't mix SJW propaganda with sports kids

>>75524991

They literally just doubled down.

90% of the people who went, were the actual reporters/writers and the conservatives. Setting the table for even more the programming that's cost them millions of viewers: 5 daily showings of black guy yells at (((white guy))), reach-Around The Horn w/ homo1, homo2, obnoxious feminist, and a dyke hosted by (((Tony Reali))), SportsGaytion with the insufferable Michelle Beadle and a clipper fan, non-stop cry me a river human interest stories, liberal politics, Bruce Jenner tranny awards, and Sportscenter: The 666 with Jamele Shill.

>>75556664

Shit is sad. Remember when Sportscenter was cool and about badass highlights? Back, back, back, back when Chris Berman was still sitting in, a young kid named Stu was cooler than the otherside of the pillow, and Dan Patrick was dare I say, en fuego. Do these libgtq faggots even have catchphrases??

>>75556706
>Remember when Sportscenter was cool

No. The faggots at ESPN always came off as jock sniffers to me

>>75556737

Unless you're close to 30, you wouldn't understand.

>>75529924
based reali giving no shits

>espn's current problems
>sjw, pandering, emoji talk, tweet talk

>espn start making cuts
>cuts sports talk

>>75553733
>i dont watch espn at all

Then you have no idea what you're talking about , ya damn librul

>>75544635
And tell me what's wrong with that?

People keep blaming the Left for ESPN but there is nothing leftist about it. It's essentially the Black Nationalist Sports Channel. Nationalism of all colors is a right wing ideology not left. It's a very shortsighted move to make it the Black Nationalist Channel considering blacks % wise are gonna decrease in the US while Latinos of all races (the majority of them being a native/white mix) is gonna increase. No Latino is gonna want to listen about We Wuz Kangz and Kweenz shit.

>>75525173
>>75525268
This.

>>75560096
>Nationalism of all colors is a right wing ideology not left
absolutely false