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I can't wait for ESPN to fold up and disappear. They ruined sports, my one retreat from this vile world.

My dream is to see Max Kellerman and Colin Krapernick working at the same McDonalds.

Why do Republican stockholders allow Corporations to lay off?
It's OK! No Republicans were employed there.

Oh how they jiggled with glee as the pink slips were pouring in and the foreclosures were mounting up. The media was reporting the greatness of the Croughnut.

google Time Warner (parent of CNN) stock price over 1 year period (since election). LOL.

they can put out fake polls all they want but stock prices don't lie. in an environment where stocks have gone up 50-60% on average Y-o-Y TimeWarner went down 10%.

MASSIVE LAY OFFS INC.

TwoScoopsMcGee says

For decades, the Neoliberal Court Historians have been telling America how great it is that factory workers and coal miners get their $15/hr+bennie jobs replaced with $8/hr no bennie Wally World Warehouse jobs.

Corporate management is considered neoliberal court historians? What kind of stalinist revisionist history is this?

Goran_K says

I can't wait for ESPN to fold up and disappear. They ruined sports, my one retreat from this vile world.

My dream is to see Max Kellerman and Colin Krapernick working at the same McDonalds.

First of all, people cannot subscribe to ESPN a la carte, so therefore, they cannot cancel ESPN as some have implied. Every objective article reflects that all channels have been suffering from the cord-cutters. There's nothing political to read into this. Besides, true conservatives should applaud Kapernicks right to protest the anthem because they are individualistic as opposed to collectivists liberals, right?

anon_7ebb1 says

Corporate management is considered neoliberal court historians? What kind of stalinist revisionist history is this?

The PRESS are Court Historians for Business Executives who are radical Neoliberal versions of Stalin.

It's beautiful to see them get "Right Sized." I'm still in awe as how Thomas Friedman, who can barely make sense most of the time and is the greatest bungler of analogies, got 3 (THREE) Pulizer Prizes.

Never has an economic philosophy produced so little for so many with so much. I think Neoliberalism has a worse record than Soviet 5-year Plans. At least you can point to some bridges over the Don. Neoliberalism has actually turned vibrant cities into slums.

anon_7ebb1 says

First of all, people cannot subscribe to ESPN a la carte, so therefore, they cannot cancel ESPN as some have implied. Every objective article reflects that all channels have been suffering from the cord-cutters. There's nothing political to read into this.

I don't think anyone is claiming you can "cancel ESPN ala carte" (has anyone claimed this?). But advertising revenue is based on viewership. More viewers, more revenue, it's that simple. If people tune out, and the confirmed viewership for a week has drop 3-5%, or more, it eventually leads to less revenue. If people aren't signing up for ESPN's premium web services, it means less revenue. If less people buy the ESPN magazine, it's less revenue.

So it's a combination of all these things which is causing ESPN to have these revenue problems and leading to lots of layoffs.

If ESPN had simply stuck to sports and didn't let idiots like Max Kellerman spew his filthy leftist agenda all over First Take, then they wouldn't be having all these problems. Oh well.

Besides, true conservatives should applaud Kapernicks right to protest the anthem because they are individualistic as opposed to collectivists liberals, right?

Libertarians (and I assume Conservatives) support his RIGHT to protest, but I don't support his protest. Quite a a nuance, especially for most leftist to understand, I know.

The only thing that would be more awesome is if the staff of the NY Review of Books or WaPo got replaced by H-1Bs or outsourced entirely to Mumbai clerks who graduated from College nobody ever heard of in Mumbai.

"B-B-But, I have an IR Degree from Georgetown! You can't replace me with this Adhya Pandit person! Her degree is from First Most Excellent Technical College, it's not even accredited!"

Goran_K says

Libertarians (and I assume Conservatives) support his RIGHT to protest, but I don't support his protest

Very well. Do you consider conservatives who stopped watching the NFL to behave inconsistently with individualistic values?

TwoScoopsMcGee says

The PRESS are Court Historians for Business Executives who are radical Neoliberal versions of Stalin.

It's beautiful to see them get "Right Sized." I'm still in awe as how Thomas Friedman, who can barely make sense most of the time and is the greatest bungler of analogies, got 3 (THREE) Pulizer Prizes.

Never has an economic philosophy produced so little for so many with so much. I think Neoliberalism has a worse record than Soviet 5-year Plans. At least you can point to some bridges over the Don. Neoliberalism has actually turned vibrant cities into slums.

I do not recall "liberal" and mainstream press cheerleading job losses and pay-cuts although admittedly they could have done much more to protest these issues. They did however speak frequently about needing to create jobs for "middle class" and "working families" and mentioned "re-training" as a suggested remedy.

anon_7ebb1 says

Very well. Do you consider conservatives who stopped watching the NFL to behave inconsistently with individualistic values?

Why? They are making a market decision to not watch something they find distasteful. Say you're favorite TV show started having 30 second segments where Nazi's were giving racist tirades before the show started, and you were like, "Man, this is really offensive, I don't feel like watching this show."

Do you think you are behaving inconsistently with individualistic values by not watching the show again?

Of course not, you go and choose to watch something else. That's the great thing about freedom. There is no law that you have to keep watching NFL games if they're going to broadcast anthem protest.

anon_7ebb1 says

Besides, true conservatives should applaud Kapernicks right to protest the anthem because they are individualistic as opposed to collectivists liberals, right?

It's one thing to defend Kapernicks right to protest the anthem but that doesn't mean that one has to agree with or celebrate his protest. That's a no brainer.