On Monday, July 28, 2014 12:08:20 PM UTC-4, PGage wrote: > > And here is ESPN's statement after Smith's apology: > > “We will continue to have constructive dialogue on this important topic. > Stephen’s comments last Friday do not reflect our company’s point of view. > As his apology demonstrates, he recognizes his mistakes and has a deeper > appreciation of our company values.” > > And here is the video of Smith's apology: > http://frontrow.espn.go.com/2014/07/espn-statement-stephen-smith/ >
SI's Richard Deitsch who has never been shy about voicing his hate towards ESPN for unleashing First Take upon the nation said it brilliantly "For those who want my take on the First Take apology: I'd give the Teleprompter read a B- and the lighting an A." Also for some weird stupid reason ESPN has blocked Awful Announcing from playing the apology video on their website according to this tweet. https://twitter.com/awfulannouncing/status/493776375451758593 I'm really in shock at how tone-deaf Bristol was in this response by having SAS give a taped non-apology apology followed by the host discussing it briefly and then going into the show discussing what number LeBron James should wear as a Cleveland Cavalier. As opposed to a more important story like should Cleveland trade for Kevin Love for example. What's more shocking and unbelievable about the whole thing is I remember in 2003 when Rush Limbaugh was booted off of "Sunday NFL Countdown" for his idiotic comments on Donovan McNabb everyone on the show from Berman to Tom Jackson to Ditka all spoke and addressed the subject for about 15-20 minutes. It was maybe one of the best pieces of sports television that I can remember because everyone spoke intelligently and thoughtfully about the week's events and about a serious subject of race in sports. I guess intelligent and thoughtful discussion is a foreign concept to the producers of "First Take". Greg -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
