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Originally Posted by SmootSmack

All I meant with the network comparisons is don't act like it's only ESPN.

As for the apologist/spokesperson part, I mean it's only natural for ESPN to get grief. When you're at the top, people want to knock you down. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just feel the need to point out what some people aren't aware of "behind the scenes"

While there is some validity to your point, as an insider myself (not at ESPN but previously at another national network) you have to admit these days the media 'creates' more out of a story than simply reporting it. There have been no less than 12 'experts' weighing in on the same story, saying the same things in different words. There is a difference between spinning a story forward and rehashing the same information we've had for 24 hours to fill up time on the rundown.