Jemele Hill leaving ESPN after buyout

Son_Of_Saul

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uky8unc5

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Personality and Politics aside...I never liked what she brought to the network.
Espn has developed a strong pool of knowledgeable women commentators.
Jemele has never been on that list.
 
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Most of the personalities they throw onto these sports talk shows are terrible. She happens to be terrible in a way that sports journalists and media critics find endearing, but the average viewer finds alienating.

In short, the big shots at ESPN wish they had a different class of loyal viewers. They hate the ones they have.
 
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know1

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People actually still watch ESPN shows? I haven't seen one in years. I only watch their channels when they have sports or 30 for 30s.
 
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She will probably get her a job at the Communist News Network. AKA CNN. She would be a perfect fit there.

...still bummed that Kaylee Hartung took a job there. I hope like hell she doesn't have to deal with Hill as a co-worker.
 

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$2.5 million per year can't be correct can it? I didn't think any of the anchors would even make that much except for maybe Van Pelt.
 
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I don't like mixing sports and politics. Sports used to be pure entertainment. I am glad that ESPN finally recognized that she was ruining their product by injecting her race based politics into the mix. The woman didn't even try to use correct grammar which made her come off as ignorant.
 

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I don't like mixing sports and politics. Sports used to be pure entertainment. I am glad that ESPN finally recognized that she ruined their product by injecting her race based politics into the mix. The woman didn't even try to use correct grammar which made her come off as ignorant.
 

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She should start her political career on this board since you guys love injecting politics too. Match made in heaven.

Jemele injected politics into everything. There wasn't a topic where she couldn't find a way to make it about race.

Jemele's entire career is nothing but race/politics. She's the angry racist they let have a byline and she got more opportunities than anyone else would've.
 

mebeblue2

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ESPN is finally figuring out that sports shows and politics do not mix
for sports shows it is a slow death but death none-the-less
 
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This is interesting. Deep Root Analytics is a TV audience ratings service that issued a report about audience partisanship. It's conclusion: across 43 markets, and even including the big U.S. liberal cities, the ESPN audience became five percent less Republican in 2016 over 2015, but the most dramatic change was felt on ESPN News, “whose audience became 36% less Republican and more Democratic.”

Summary:

“Certainly ESPN’s problems are not purely a result of Republican viewers turning off the network. But with this larger analysis, we do see a clear national trend that ESPN is losing Republican viewers, including in major markets…Given ESPN’s own admission that it has become more political — and on-the-record comments from ESPN talent saying that the network’s liberal nature is likely driving away viewers — this problem appears to be largely self-inflicted at a time when the network cannot afford to lose any more of its audience.”

For so long, many on the left rejected this premise. ESPN's financial issues are all about cord-cutting, and politics has little to do with it, they said. Head in sand.....
 

KingOfBBN

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This is interesting. Deep Root Analytics is a TV audience ratings service that issued a report about audience partisanship. It's conclusion: across 43 markets, and even including the big U.S. liberal cities, the ESPN audience became five percent less Republican in 2016 over 2015, but the most dramatic change was felt on ESPN News, “whose audience became 36% less Republican and more Democratic.”

Summary:

“Certainly ESPN’s problems are not purely a result of Republican viewers turning off the network. But with this larger analysis, we do see a clear national trend that ESPN is losing Republican viewers, including in major markets…Given ESPN’s own admission that it has become more political — and on-the-record comments from ESPN talent saying that the network’s liberal nature is likely driving away viewers — this problem appears to be largely self-inflicted at a time when the network cannot afford to lose any more of its audience.”

For so long, many on the left rejected this premise. ESPN's financial issues are all about cord-cutting, and politics has little to do with it, they said. Head in sand.....

ESPN's leftist BS is why I finally made the decision to cut the cord.
 
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