Tim Kawakami of the San Jose Mercury News nails it, in calling for a boycott of ESPN:
"ESPN has always had a split personality: Good ESPN, with tremendous reporters, excellent game coverage and a sense of responsibility; and Bad ESPN, which believes that the only way to cut through the clutter is to SHOUT LOUDER AND LOUDER and produce dumber and dumber shows.Good ESPN is 'Baseball Tonight,' 'Pardon the Interruption' and 'Outside the Lines.' It's Tom Jackson, Bob Ley, Harold Reynolds, Linda Cohn, Chris Mortensen and Dan Patrick.
Bad ESPN is almost everything else, from Berman to the ESPYs to Stuart Scott to NFL analysts Sean Salisbury and John Clayton (two very nice guys off-air) yelling at each other like kindergartners.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes.
Posted by Stephen Silver at July 23, 2004 01:59 AM