Friday, September 02, 2016

Read more, watch ESPN less

Read more, watch ESPN less | Power Line:
"John Skipper is the President of ESPN, Inc.
The Washington Post adoringly paints him as one-time Southern hippie who studied literature, wanted to write the Great American novel, and enjoys late night “high level sophisticated conversations about American literature, Faulkner’s place in it, [and] the influence of alcohol and race. . . .”
Image result for espn espys jennerYou probably know the type.
In a commencement address at the University of Central Florida, Skipper bemoaned the fact that, according to a recent survey, the average American spends three hours a day in front of a television and just 19 minutes reading.
“Please watch a little less television,” the TV executive implored.
I would modify his plea slightly. 
Please watch less ESPN.
Why? 
Because, as I discussed here, ESPN has taken the side of the political left.
It’s ESPY award ceremony was, in the words of one critic, “filled with about as much race-baiting, left-wing politics as the Democrats convention in Philly. . .”
Meanwhile, the network suppresses opposing viewpoints.
It fired Curt Schilling for speaking out on his Facebook page about transgender bathroom laws.
It fired Ray Lewis shortly after he put out a video arguing that African-Americans should focus primarily on blacks killing blacks, not on the rare instances in which a bad white cop kills a “brother...”

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