JLN, I sincerely doubt that many NBA viewers think twice about Beadle's politics, except as it may be convenient for MANY in their forced arguments.

Arguing on behalf of an entitled feeling bitch like Steele is something of a loser.

LeBatard is what he is, but he's also fairly self-deprecating and generally fair. I'll point to his remarks after Hernandez' death where he basically said he'd shed no tears over an amoral piece of crap.

I think that what it really comes down to is that MANY are bothered by the reality that the broadcasters are expressing their understanding of and influence by others of a different culture. And that that is apparent in the broadcast of all of the major sports even including hockey.

And no one really cares about Spain or Fagan...or Keith Law.

god you're like Brick in a parallel universe

The fact that the first example JLN can come up with is the Beadle-Steele swap shows how weak his entire case is.

Lots of minorities hate Beadle too and have ever since she made a spectacle of herself over Mayweather while being an apologist for Steve Austin and the WWE.

can you try and use the eye roll less please

Does that mean you're in this parallel universe with me, or that I'm in this universe with you, from a parallel universe of my own?

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

Because that's not fallacious reasoning, like, at all.



The fact that she gets promoted after taking Mayweather to the woodshed in a fit of hypocritical outrage only bolsters my point that ESPN rewards those further toward the left.

What's this between Beadle and Merriweather?

What's this between Beadle and Merriweather?

can you try and use the eye roll less please

Good advice for MANY on this board

That is an incredibly convenient, on top of completely unverifiable, point to make. Do you believe there isn't such a thing as a conservative NBA fan?



What does it matter if she's entitled? She expressed dismay with a progressive movement, and coincidentally found herself in a reduced role despite filling two kinds of quotas. Is that not curious to you?



Disliking a convicted murderer means you're fair, now?



Sure, that's part of it. I remember around '07-'08 maybe, people giving Tony Reali shit for keeping his Ash Wednesday...thing, or whatever...on during his shows, and you can forget about the reaction to the first SportsCenter-Deportes crossover during Latin heritage month. But what I won't denigrate people for is not tuning into the newest pandering 6PM SportsCenter. They play dominoes with Ice Cube, for the love of God, if that's not a "take this thick, veiny culture down your throat, America" from ESPN, then what is?



Hundreds of thousands of people follow them on twitter, and they are all, respectively, on national television weekly. Come on, dude.

Good advice for MANY on this board

That is an incredibly convenient, on top of completely unverifiable, point to make. Do you believe there isn't such a thing as a conservative NBA fan?

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

Your entire argument is unverifiable

But is there data to support the notion that Republicans are turning off ESPN as the network ramped up its political commentary during the 2016 election and beyond?

Deep Root Analytics specializes in local television measurement by segmenting the population into political, advocacy and commercial groups and matching those segments into observed TV viewership data via set-top boxes and smart TV data. This allows Deep Root to produce customized ratings and indices for every program and daypart on broadcast and cable TV – including data on ESPN’s viewership among loyal Democrats and Republicans.

We analyzed viewership data in a large media market in a swing state (Cincinnati, OH) for the entirety of 2015 and 2016. Also, to control for any changes in partisan identification between 2015 and 2016, Deep Root Analytics analyzed viewership among the same audiences across both years.

In our analysis, a clear trend emerges: ESPN’s viewership in this key swing state market became less Republican during 2016.

Specifically, in 2015, the ESPN audience on average skewed Republican across all dayparts, ranging from 12% more Republican (Early News, Late Fringe, Overnight) to 21% more Republican than Democratic (Early Morning).

In 2016, every daypart on ESPN became less conservative, with Daytime being only 2% more Republican than Democratic, while Late Fringe and Overnight programming became 10% and 12% more Democratic than Republican – a 22 and 28 point shift, respectively.

The same is true across other ESPN properties. ESPN2 skewed Republican across most dayparts in 2015; in 2016 all dayparts skewed Democratic. Every daypart also switched on ESPN News from 2015 to 2016.

ESPNU was the only network that retained its mostly Republican audience. ESPN Deportes – the network’s Spanish language channel – became even more Democratic in 2016 than it already was in 2015.

Totally unverifiable.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

I heard SJWs/Libtards caused the heroin epidemic.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

The future holds the possibility to be great or terrible, and since it has not yet occurred it remains simultaneously both.

I thought that was a trickle down of the Reagan administration's widespread distribution of crack in urban centers in the 80's.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby

traded in the eyeroll for a laugh i see

I heard SJWs/Libtards caused the heroin epidemic.

Turn that frown upside-down.

I can't tell whether JLN is, like me, a devoted hater of shitlibs, or actually on the right. Now I know how Hillary Men feel.

That's unverifiable.

Our hotel smelled like dead hooker vagina (before you ask I had gotten a detailed description from beardown)

I'm sure some conspiracy nut addressed it, but I don't care enough to look. I'm just being a dick.

I'm a big dumb shitlib baby