What is wrong with ESPN??

[gibbsisgod]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

ESPN (while NFL Network continues to replay GameDay and Total Access) has been covering Sean Taylor the man (both the good and the bad) through all its platforms (tv, radio, online) all morning long.

The complexity of Sean Taylor adds to what makes all this so tragic and compelling.

Sorry if I seem harsh but I don't understand the need to bash ESPN at every turn. And maybe, definitely actually, I take it too personally. But you'd be the same if I spent my time talking about how you constantly fail at your jobs.

I don't think I have ever trashed ESPN. That being said, I can understand why some are upset at the way ST is being portayed. I believe there is a more tasteful way of presenting this story. Dwelling on his past and harping on it to a national audience has consequences. I was reading on a couple of other teams websites yesterday and most were acting like he deserved this. The national media has portrayed this guy like a gangster so thats all the non-locals hear about. He never got the chance to show the media and the whole world that he was trying to be a better person.

ESPN is not alone in this boat folks! Everybody running this story nationally has something to say about his past.

[SmootSmack]

Originally Posted by gibbsisgod

ESPN is not alone in this boat folks! Everybody running this story nationally has something to say about his past.

Well that's one of my biggest gripes. That ESPN is singled out. But at the same time I understand Pain and Brud's point that ESPN is the big dog.

But regardless, my frustration is really irrelevant to what truly matters, as is how the media covers it or how viewers react to the coverage.

[FRPLG]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Well that's one of my biggest gripes. That ESPN is singled out. But at the same time I understand Pain and Brud's point that ESPN is the big dog.

But regardless, my frustration is really irrelevant to what truly matters, as is how the media covers it or how viewers react to the coverage.

One thing to think about is that I am pretty sure the local DC coverage of this is far more forgiving and compassionate than the national coverage. ESPN represents the national coverage to most people so those of us local to this see the discrepency in the way things are presented. I do agree that maybe ESPN is being unfairly singled out.

[dgack]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

Well that's one of my biggest gripes. That ESPN is singled out. But at the same time I understand Pain and Brud's point that ESPN is the big dog.

But regardless, my frustration is really irrelevant to what truly matters, as is how the media covers it or how viewers react to the coverage.

Honestly Smooty the only reason I single out ESPN is because of the stories that have come out in the past few years that make it sound like a frat house. If you're going to judge athletes for off-field indiscretions, you better be beyond reproach yourself.

And if all of those allegations are all false, as ESPN legal would have you believe, you'd think they would understand the damage that hearsay and saucy implications can do.

But in the end it's all about sellin' newspapers... (figuratively speaking)