I used to record multiple sports shows on ESPN but stopped a while back when it was like watching MSNBC pundits. Also they can’t do a documentary without some lecture on race with one sided perspective. Like they attacked Michael Jordan for saying republicans buy sneakers too and that he didn’t “speak out”.
I was watching a TV documentary on WW2 the other night and it ended with agitprop about how Black soldiers from the US feared going home because fighting Nazis was safer than the raging KKK back home.
My grandfathers happily came back home to the U.S. precisely the reason I don’t watch any modern day documentaries. They can’t help themselves with racial commentary. And it’s always the left wing race obsessed university point of view.
Sucks because I like be history but I have to check the year a documentary was made. For instance I love Bruce Lee and ESPN did a documentary on him that spent a lot of time on blacks and the civil rights movement for some reason. I was thinking I’m well aware of civil rights movement and I’ve read about the racism he experienced but I want to hear about his career and martial arts.
They go around to different parts of the southeast (being on ESPN’s Southeastern Conference Channel) showing mostly poor, rural areas. Most episodes find an excuse to cry about how bad off black people are, despite showing multiple black business owners and tons of dirt-poor white folks.
You’d be correct. The closest thing I can compare it to is one of the Food Network non-cooking shows where they visit different restaurants (Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives) but they don’t always go to restaurants.
I’m an ex-sports journalist for local and regional outlets, and the journalism field in general is littered, top to bottom, with wannabe heroes, world-changers, etc. Some local sports journalists aren’t like that, they just want to go fishing in their off hours, but some are as you describe and definitely 95 percent of hard news / community writers are wannabe heroes.
I decided journalism had jumped the shark for me when I was working for a small paper with four total writers and I realized I was the only one of the four who didn’t have either a substack, a political podcast, or both. These subs and pods had like 12 followers, but the other three writers all thought they were just temporarily covering local news to pay the bills until they were able to build a political commentary brand and do that full time. …I just wanted to tell people how the basketball team was doing. I didn’t fit in.
I also remember after Tiger Woods won a championship they kept asking about Trump to the point that he said does anyone have any golf questions otherwise I’m going to eat lunch.
I used to record multiple sports shows on ESPN but stopped a while back when it was like watching MSNBC pundits. Also they can’t do a documentary without some lecture on race with one sided perspective. Like they attacked Michael Jordan for saying republicans buy sneakers too and that he didn’t “speak out”.
I was watching a TV documentary on WW2 the other night and it ended with agitprop about how Black soldiers from the US feared going home because fighting Nazis was safer than the raging KKK back home.
My grandfathers happily came back home to the U.S. precisely the reason I don’t watch any modern day documentaries. They can’t help themselves with racial commentary. And it’s always the left wing race obsessed university point of view.
I suspect the documentary may have been Canadian, which explains a lot.
Sucks because I like be history but I have to check the year a documentary was made. For instance I love Bruce Lee and ESPN did a documentary on him that spent a lot of time on blacks and the civil rights movement for some reason. I was thinking I’m well aware of civil rights movement and I’ve read about the racism he experienced but I want to hear about his career and martial arts.
His publicist denies he ever said this, and I can't find any evidence he said it, either.
Which is a shame, as it's a damn good line.
I thought the other players said he jokingly said it. But you are right. It’s a good line for business in general
Oh really? I didn't get a chance to see that.
The publicist statement was about a year before that documentary came out.
Good for Jordan. Another reason he's still the greatest.
TrueSouth on the SEC channel is especially unwatchable.
They are a political show? Or the constantly discuss race?
They go around to different parts of the southeast (being on ESPN’s Southeastern Conference Channel) showing mostly poor, rural areas. Most episodes find an excuse to cry about how bad off black people are, despite showing multiple black business owners and tons of dirt-poor white folks.
I know it’s a silly question but isn’t the SEC network supposed to be about sports?
You’d be correct. The closest thing I can compare it to is one of the Food Network non-cooking shows where they visit different restaurants (Diners, Drive-Ins, & Dives) but they don’t always go to restaurants.
Exactly. Which is why gaming journalists have to give Sone unrelated political commentary in every game they report on
I’m an ex-sports journalist for local and regional outlets, and the journalism field in general is littered, top to bottom, with wannabe heroes, world-changers, etc. Some local sports journalists aren’t like that, they just want to go fishing in their off hours, but some are as you describe and definitely 95 percent of hard news / community writers are wannabe heroes.
I decided journalism had jumped the shark for me when I was working for a small paper with four total writers and I realized I was the only one of the four who didn’t have either a substack, a political podcast, or both. These subs and pods had like 12 followers, but the other three writers all thought they were just temporarily covering local news to pay the bills until they were able to build a political commentary brand and do that full time. …I just wanted to tell people how the basketball team was doing. I didn’t fit in.
I also remember after Tiger Woods won a championship they kept asking about Trump to the point that he said does anyone have any golf questions otherwise I’m going to eat lunch.
I still use that "I'm just here so I don't get fined" line.
Since I had to dig for the video in the tweet, here you go.
"We are useless."
Jon Bois, sportswriter, on his profession
nitter link https://nitter.pussthecat.org/RockDocDoug/status/1620467253534916609
the other link someone gave https://nitter.pussthecat.org/ClayTravis/status/1620599103821615106