NEWSWEEK DROPS A SERIOUS DIME ON BRISTOL BLUNDERS: Devin Gordon of NEWSWEEK has a priceless dissection of the slow, steady demise decline of ESPN as an objective sports media entity (for some reason, NEWSWEEK’s website has been down throughout the weekend, the cached version of the piece is linked).
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Gordon surveys the wreckage of the net’s most recent broadcast offerings (”Who’s Now” is, of course, most prominent) and concludes “in recent years, networkwide, that balance (objective reporting vs. subjective ga-ga) has begun to tip unmistakably toward the kind of athlete-centric idol worship that seems more like the province of Us Weekly than ESPN.”
