Yet he was on his half hour ESPN TV show today. Granted, it's a half-hour
program in the PTI/Around the Horn format of short discussions on several
stories, so it rarely gets political. (When it does, it's usually related to
Cuba as Le Batard's born in Cuba father is part of the show.)
It just seems weird to be off one and not off the other. But ESPN's handling
of these issues over the last several years has been weird to me in many ways.
David
On Monday, July 22, 2019, 7:47:28 PM EDT, Steve Timko
<[email protected]> wrote:
He was absent from the show today.
https://deadline.com/2019/07/espn-dan-le-batard-donald-trump-the-squad-controversy-1202650858
On Jul 21, 2019, at 9:24 AM, "Kevin M." <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:20 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 8:48 PM Brad Beam <[email protected]> wrote:
Or, to paraphrase Kevin, ESPN molests Animal Planet.
There was a gut reaction to Trump's 2016 victory saying he was such an outlier
that he would stretch our politics and culture like a rubber band and once he
is gone things will snap back to what they were before his election. As time
goes on it is becoming clear that there will be no snap back. Our cultural
institutions, like media companies, are very slow moving (they're built that
way) and their reaction to the way things arte changing is to act like nothing
is changing.
Up until now there was a consensus that overt racism would be excluded from
mainstream conversation. Racists could be deemed some sort of "other" and be
marginalized. The consensus gets smashed when the Chief Executive makes overtly
racist statements. He can't be marginalized and his followers will line up
behind his statements. If a media organization decides its on camera talent
can't call out racism then what credibility do they have in the public sphere?
ESPN (really all of Disney) and the other media organizations are going to have
to catch up to the moment.
I suspect Disney would interpret the idea of playing catch-up to mean they
should now rerelease Song of the South in the US so the overtly racist crowd
can buy it.
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