Sorry I'm late on this. Beadle, I think, got a free pass on her Twitter posts for two reasons: (a) they were four very powerful tweets, and (b) had ESPN suspended her and not SAS, it would've made the NFL look like the most sensitive group on the planet.
Here, in a nutshell, is ESPN at this moment: it's the only thing that's making Disney profitable. So anything that can be remotely considered profitable is safe. First Take is a money-making show. As long as it keeps making money, they're not touching anyone related to it. KO didn't touch it mostly because he has much safer targets to go after (and would very clearly not be protected had he taken a shot at them, given his past history). Deadspin wrote an outstanding piece a year-and-a-half ago about FT and how it single-handedly changed ESPN in a very bad way. It's worth reading because it explains a lot about their behavior regarding SAS. http://deadspin.com/5929361/how-espn-ditched-journalism-and-followed-skip-bayless-to-the-bottom-a-tim-tebow-story On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:17 PM, 'David Bruggeman' via TVorNotTV < tvornottv@googlegroups.com> wrote: > Had Smith followed even a little bit of what Beadle has been saying on the > Tweets about this topic before today, maybe he wouldn't have been so > surprised. > > Keith O. may weigh in, unless he thinks last night covered it well > enough. > > > http://www.sportsgrid.com/nfl/keith-olbermann-went-predictably-nuts-over-the-ray-rice-suspension-or-lack-thereof/ > > I equivocate on whether Keith will comment only because the four-letter > may not be keen on expanding a family disagreement/misunderstanding. > > David > > > > ------------------------------ > *From:* Bob Jersey <bob.in.jer...@juno.com> > *To:* tvornottv@googlegroups.com > *Sent:* Friday, July 25, 2014 6:45 PM > *Subject:* [TV orNotTV] Bristology: Stephen A needed to regret > > Stuff he said to Skip this midday, after NFL star Ray Rice was suspended > two games for violence against a girlfriend he later wed, didn't sit too > well with colleague Michelle Beadle... Smith spent a string of tweets > 'splainin... TheWrap > <http://www.thewrap.com/espn-host-under-fire-for-remarks-about-domestic-violence-victims-video/> > (link) > > B > > -- > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
