https://twitter.com/molratty/status/857230540931563521
ESPN has announced layoff of on-air personalities:
ESPN is cutting about 100 jobs, most belonging to TV and radio personalities https://t.co/mgcfy2YzxL pic.twitter.com/9QOgweZdIy
— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) April 26, 2017
ESPN has been criticized increasingly for politicizing sports or taking a liberal slant in coverage, and Bleacher Report football columnist (formerly with CBSSports.com) Michael Freeman slammed anybody who’s pointing to the layoffs as evidence that direction harmed the cable net:
If you are one of the dirtbags reveling in ESPN's layoffs, go to hell in a hand basket you pathetic piece of garbage.
— mike freeman (@mikefreemanNFL) April 26, 2017
Obviously not everybody agreed, or at the very least found the comment ironic or hypocritical:
These are the folks who orchestrated boycotts against Hobby Lobby and Chick Fil A. https://t.co/sN45m1LOaW
— Federalist Musket?? (@Patriot_Musket) April 26, 2017
Irony in all of this is how ESPN talks of coaches on the hot seat and at times call for firings. https://t.co/SiH22RzYr7
— BamaGoose ? (@BamaGoose256) April 26, 2017
Hmm. I wonder how many ppl lost their job. pic.twitter.com/KP25PD1P0F
— ? (@La_G4ta) April 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/yitzyy/status/857242561416744960
Lmaoooooooo kinda ironic cause that’s what y’all do to athletes https://t.co/I2fuEyNXxr
— Scoop (@Scoop28) April 26, 2017
https://twitter.com/LilMissRightie/status/857252924900200448
I feel for the people with families and just want to do their job. I don't feel for ESPN, and their agenda at all actually.
— Josh Costigan (@CostiganJD) April 26, 2017
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