Absent from his radio show/simulcast, by his own choice. He hasn’t been suspended.
He also does a 30-minute TV show with his father later in the day. He was in attendance there, making a couple of very vague joke references to “being in trouble.” He said he’d be back on the radio show on Tuesday. Doug Fields Tampa, FL From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Steve Timko Sent: Monday, July 22, 2019 7:47 PM To: TV or Not TV <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [TV orNotTV] Le Batard Speaks Truth to both Trump and ESPN 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]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 9:20 AM Tom Wolper <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 8:48 PM Brad Beam <[email protected]<mailto:[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. -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiE0bZQLzPWCTEA9x90K%2Bnfex07ZqRaiqJX%3DDAhw6gmXMg%40mail.gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAJE-FiE0bZQLzPWCTEA9x90K%2Bnfex07ZqRaiqJX%3DDAhw6gmXMg%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/5d33549c-d318-492d-ab79-cd5542b6036e%40gmail.com<https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/5d33549c-d318-492d-ab79-cd5542b6036e%40gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/DM6PR14MB26172FFFD3687F31B622212EC6C70%40DM6PR14MB2617.namprd14.prod.outlook.com.
