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ESPN (A bunch of Death-Spiraling maroons)

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This isn’t germane to football but it still made me think of the network: every fucking allegation story they break seems to never go substantiated — albeit I wouldn’t say Miller and MSU isn’t out of the clear yet. But still, I hope further strain occurs with this network because their content is a fucking atrocity — online and on television.
 
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MGMT said:
This isn’t germane to football but it still made me think of the network: every fucking allegation story they break seems to never go substantiated — albeit I wouldn’t say Miller and MSU isn’t out of the clear yet. But still, I hope further strain occurs with this network because their content is a fucking atrocity — online and on television.
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They’re always so quick to jump the gun. I’m with you in that Miller and the rest haven’t been cleared yet but there is a decent possibility that ESPN fucked this up. I’m growing tired of “sources.” Every damn story is “sources.” There is rarely ever a name attributed to their shitty reporting (other than the one reporting it, NOT wherever the fuck it came from.) I could go to ESPN to see a box score and it would probably be from “sources.”

“Sources say the Reds got their shit fed to them today by the Cubs 15-2. According to sources. SOURCES!!!1!1!1”
 
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CFPBuckeye said:
I’m growing tired of “sources.” Every damn story is “sources.” There is rarely ever a name attributed to their shitty reporting (other than the one reporting it, NOT wherever the fuck it came from.) I could go to ESPN to see a box score and it would probably be from “sources.”
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That's how journalism works. ESPN using anonymous sources all the time just seems ridiculous because 99% of the shit they cover and investigate really doesn't matter and they go for sensationalism above anything else, e.g. the Patriots thing a couple months ago.
 
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Saw this linked from 11W. It seems the Bristol crew's ceaseless desire to play the role of sports-TMZ and trash anyone and everyone they can has not sat well with the NFL. Needless to say I hope the relationship never gets fixed and they go out of business.

ESPN’s tricky NFL problem
Pitaro’s to-do list: Repair relationship
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2 orgs that deserve eachother.
I hate the Rome / Skip / SAS train of Controversy-for-Ratings

But OTL is consistently good reporting, possibly the only quality work out of Espn ... which is why it angers the NFL so much.
 
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This very website goes out of its way to attack ESPN (as is deserved) and yet there were still multiple regulars on here that fell for ESPN's smearing of Izzo and Dantonio, despite others continuing to point out how baseless it was. Fast forward however long it's been and those posters seemingly don't even know how off they were because ESPN has no one to challenge them publicly and hold them accountable. I wouldn't be surprised to see ESPN minimize some of the TMZ'ing when it comes to the NFL, but I don't see them changing anything otherwise.
 
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