After fifty years and millions upon millions of deaths on Friday, Roe V. WadeThe Supreme Court overturned the decision. After the ruling was reversed, the backlash began instantly with anti-abortion protestors taking to the streets. There was some violence that night and more over the coming days.
However, it is logical to view passionate responses to RoeThe political conversation is flowing all around the globe, so it doesn’t make sense for ESPN to comment. Yet, that’s exactly what happened, and it was as weird and unhinged as you’d expect.
The necessity to @espn covering this at all — was anyone asking them to cover this? — the clip perfectly encapsulates @espn’s far left wing bias. Tweets from the left-wing, which misstate the court’s actions and offer no value for their fans, are shared.
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) June 24, 2022
This begs the obvious question: Why is ESPN covering it? The audience tunes in to see the most recent MLB scores and to follow how NFL workouts go. Malika Andrews is being asked to weep on the air, while misstating the Supreme Court’s ruling. Roe even does? What does the WNBA have to say, when no one actually watches it? Where’s the demand for that?
I think the answer is that there isn’t any demand for that. That’s testified to by the fact that ESPN’s ratings are shrinking, while parent-company Disney is in the midst of a stock collapse. The decision to combine politics and sports in this manner is actually turning away viewers. As has been the case in other corporations, the show’s staff is younger and more literate. They ensure that such things like these are on the air. Executives are terrified of internal dissent if they don’t acquiesce.
No matter how serious the business concerns may be, driving established entities to the ground for the sake of a minority of highly educated individuals is no good. This makes absolutely no sense. Does it make no sense for shareholders to not be concerned about their losses due to this decision to divide and politicize sports, which is a common practice in the world? Perhaps those shareholders just aren’t organized to the point where they can fight back, but you’d think things would reach a breaking point soon enough.
Past that, it’s especially disturbing to see a black woman tear up on the air about the overturning of a “50-year precedent” — when it was the overturning of 60-year precedent Plessy that ended segregation, and that’s just one of several examples. Is this the real argument? If it is used to protect the murder of unborn children, then that precedent cannot be touched.
This is the second attempt by the left to deal with the question of Roe One of the most absurd and tortured arguments in modern political history remains. Still, ESPN isn’t supposed to be about politics. Unfortunately, it appears zero lessons have been learned, and for that, they’ll continue to lose viewers.
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