Remember that time when all those sports reporters broke out the pitchforks and piled on that Jacksonville reporter for basically telling Liam Coen “great season coach, we’re proud of you” like that was the biggest violation of journalistic ethics of all time?
ESPN has become way too comfortable showcasing MAGA folk, political hucksters, and conspiratorial freaks. This is peak We Don't Give A F---. Having a generationally shameless grifter like Ted Cruz on such an apolitical program like Game Day.? WILD. This is the Pat McAfee effect.
It is shameful that @nytimes@TheAthletic buried the fact that the biggest punishment in NBA history was the result of an investigation by journalist @PabloTorre. And to call it the result of a "podcast episode" is a further slap in the face. He won a Pulitzer for this story and they call it an "episode" instead of, at the outset -- crediting him with exposing this scandal. Really really lame.