Its Confirmed, ESPN sucks

• Commander of Awesome

  

  [h=1]You Can’t Talk Enough Tebow”: ESPN’s Instructions To On-Air Talent[/h] John Koblin
  
  Doug Gottlieb, the former ESPN Radio host now bound for CBS, did an exit interview on The Dan Patrick Show today and confirmed what we all suspected. But to hear it spelled out this explicitly? Hoo boy. The symbiotic relationship between ESPN and Tebow is fertilized by orders from above, according to Gottlieb:
  [INDENT] I was told specifically, 'You can't talk enough Tebow.' I would jokingly throw it into a segment. 'I gotta find 15 seconds here to talk about Tebow, all right let's move on and talk about Major League Baseball.'
  [...]
  Is it ridiculous how much you have to talk about Tebow? Yeah! But for whatever reason people can't get enough of that story, and they kind of stoke the fire—that's kind of what ESPN does.
  [/INDENT] Gottlieb also told Patrick that there was an in-house TV channel at ESPN, for producers and on-air talent looking for material, that laid out a list of trending topics. Not surprisingly, Tebow was always at the top of the list.
  Patrick asked Gottlieb if ESPN reports news or creates it, and Gottlieb said, correctly, "both." Patrick summed up the tension between ESPN's news wing and its entertainment division quite well:
  [INDENT] They've lost that credibility, a large portion of the credibility of covering news. I think that it's now: ‘What's trending?' Focus groups. You're trying to create things there. Bernie Fine story at Syracuse. Where's that? The New Orleans story with the Saints with Mickey Loomis? Where's that? Where are those stories? Those are big stories that you guys created. You were late on the Joe Paterno story. I think there's just a different mindset from what they're doing and how they're covering it. And they always fall back on ‘Well, Bob Ley covers the serious news stories.' SportsCenter should be covering sports, they should be covering the news. I think they created it with Tebow. And ESPN embarrassed themselves in spending a week out there at Jets camp.
  [/INDENT] Here's the audio of Gottlieb on The Dan Patrick Show, talking Tebow:
  
  http://football.realgm.com/src_wiretap_archives/29337/20121003/espn_advises_talent_to_talk_about_tim_tebow_as_much_as_possible/#
• like_that

  

  You need confirmation that ESPN sucks?
  
  Also Gottlieb is a douche, at least ESPN made one good move.
• OSH

  

  like_that;1286375 wrote:You need confirmation that ESPN sucks?
  
  Also Gottlieb is a douche, at least ESPN made one good move.

  Reps. For all of it.
• derek bomar

  

  blows my mind that anyone hired that d-bag thief
• like_that

  

  derek bomar;1286413 wrote:blows my mind that anyone hired that d-bag thief

  
  Thief? What's the story there?
• queencitybuckeye

  like_that;1286426 wrote:Thief? What's the story there?

  He made some purchases with some credit cards that weren't his during his freshman year, which led to his leaving Notre Dame and ending up at Okie State.
• Classyposter58

  

  ESPN has gotten annoying about the NFL. I mean god I like golf, college football and baseball too. Lets talk about that stuff at least a little instead of hearing how Dallas played awful against Chicago
• Iliketurtles

  

  like_that;1286426 wrote:Thief? What's the story there?

  Yeah he stole his roommates credit card his freshmen of college and spent about 3-4k on it. It led to him getting dismissed from ND. He's talked about the story before it was kinda funny hearing about how ND handled it.
  
  Also that was pretty interesting to listen to haha.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  like_that;1286375 wrote:You need confirmation that ESPN sucks?

  See my sig for the answer to this.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  For those still confused, the answer is no, no I did not.
• jordo212000

  

  I'm to the point now where I only watch PTI.
  
  Sportscenter is a joke. The Jets training camp special is the epitome of what ESPN has become
• SportsAndLady

  

  I love a good Shorts-On-Backwards bashing!
  
  [video=youtube;bf1izKbjTZ0][/video]
• said_aouita

  

  I'm sure most ESPN fans would rather watch a special on NDSU's phenom golfer Ursinio Puga.
• Fly4Fun

  

  The only "shows" I watch on ESPN anymore are actual broadcasts of games. I can't stand their analysis or reporting of news... it's a complete joke.
  
  Edit: I have watched a few 30 for 30 segments. But I often forget when they are on or forget about them as I generally try to avoid the world wide leader in sports.
• ricola

  

  ^^agree. ESPN has lost a lot of credibility over the years. Do like a few of their announcers/reporters, but not the majority. mainly just watch live sporting events---unless Doris Burke is announcing