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<blockquote data-quote="Pharm Frog" data-source="post: 2313481" data-attributes="member: 34435"><p> </p><p>Pertinent to your question there's this little gem directly from an ESPN ombudsman</p><p> </p><p>The 2016 presidential election season has been one most of us will never forget. The tone has been ugly, the controversies endless, the coverage unrelenting. Our social media feeds are full of politically charged statements, and what dialogue does exist between differing sides more often resembles a WWE match than nuanced debate.</p><p>Thankfully, I get to write about ESPN, where the focus on sports means I never have to deal with politics.</p><p>Ah, if only that were true.</p><p>As it turns out, ESPN is far from immune from the political fever that has afflicted so much of the country over the past year. Internally, there’s a feeling among many staffers -- both liberal and conservative -- that the company’s perceived move leftward has had a stifling effect on discourse inside the company and has affected its public-facing products. Consumers have sensed that same leftward movement, alienating some.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.espn.com/blog/ombudsman/post/_/id/767/inside-and-out-espn-dealing-with-changing-political-dynamics" target="_blank">http://www.espn.com/blog/ombudsman/post/_/id/767/inside-and-out-espn-dealing-with-changing-political-dynamics</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pharm Frog, post: 2313481, member: 34435"] Pertinent to your question there's this little gem directly from an ESPN ombudsman The 2016 presidential election season has been one most of us will never forget. The tone has been ugly, the controversies endless, the coverage unrelenting. Our social media feeds are full of politically charged statements, and what dialogue does exist between differing sides more often resembles a WWE match than nuanced debate. Thankfully, I get to write about ESPN, where the focus on sports means I never have to deal with politics. Ah, if only that were true. As it turns out, ESPN is far from immune from the political fever that has afflicted so much of the country over the past year. Internally, there’s a feeling among many staffers -- both liberal and conservative -- that the company’s perceived move leftward has had a stifling effect on discourse inside the company and has affected its public-facing products. Consumers have sensed that same leftward movement, alienating some. [URL="http://www.espn.com/blog/ombudsman/post/_/id/767/inside-and-out-espn-dealing-with-changing-political-dynamics"]http://www.espn.com/blog/ombudsman/post/_/id/767/inside-and-out-espn-dealing-with-changing-political-dynamics[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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