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McAfee seems to be trying to flip the narrative and make this about ESPN being bad or something, when he willingly signed up for this, and has been given way more freedom on content than the LeBatard Show had when they were on ESPN. All of this over Rodgers making a legally actionable comment about another Disney employee...
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Oh and now ESPN is apologizing for the incident https://twitter.com/MMcCarthyREV/status/1743382865876840630?s=20
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McAfee complaining about his bosses feels like a work. I'm sure there is truth in this Norby exec disliking him but McAfee wouldn't be the first ESPN guy to lean into pissing off the execs. I'm sure some people at ESPN/ABC/Disney probably don't love Rodgers coming on to start poo poo but I'm sure many other there don't really care as long as the numbers go up. edited: for clarity BWV fucked around with this message at 00:37 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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The Dominion settlement cost Fox $800 million. I don't think exec at Disney is taking the situation lightly.
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Simplex posted:The Dominion settlement cost Fox $800 million. I don't think exec at Disney is taking the situation lightly. Sorry, to clarify, I was saying that McAfee complaining about his bosses is the work, not McAfee having Rodgers on to talk poo poo about Kimmel. I'll change my post to make that clear As for the liablity side, I don't really see it as the same thing. One is a company who demonstrated that they lost money based on unethical and knowingly false news reporting. The other is a celebrity talk show host who is getting rightfully upset that a known lunatic said something ridiculous. Both are obviously bad looks but I don't see the latter resulting in any lawsuit, especially as he'd be suing his employer of 20+ years who we assume he still wants to work for. BWV fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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I don't think an actual lawsuit is likely, but it's crazy that you can have a major media figure at one end of a company platforming a guy who will make slanderous accusations about another company employee
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with how large media companies have become it's surprising something like this hasn't happened already. I more or less agree with Nick Wright, in that the real story is that the Aaron Rodgers is a loving lunatic and that the media side of the story should be less about Jimmy Kimmel and more about how to cover someone like Rodgers.
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Seams posted:They should give Kyrie an ESPN show.
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Is McAfee rethinking that deal he signed and trying to get bought out?
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I think he doesn't care, because he has the leverage. ESPN needs him more than he needs them. If he gets bought out he gets bought out.
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BWV posted:Sorry, to clarify, I was saying that McAfee complaining about his bosses is the work, not McAfee having Rodgers on to talk poo poo about Kimmel. As far as Kimmel I wouldn't think his first impulse is to go scorched Earth on everybody, but it's definitely a possibility if he's unhappy with how the situation is handled. Which, to circle back to my first point, I'm not convinced McAfee actually understands what's going on here, and who's holding the cards. I don't know who the guest was on LeBatard's show, but he was raising the point that this is the example that was always given in media trainings. You can't go on air and call someone a pedophile. This is such a clear, black and white situation, that McAfee even trying to defend it is a problem.
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Simplex posted:There're some assumptions about things that I would make 10 years ago, that me personally, I'm just not going to make anymore. I default to that if someone is showing you their rear end, there's no secret plan behind it. Like I think people are misunderstanding something. That statement about people trying to take down his show. was not about this. It was about someone(the dude he mentioned) leaking false or misleading ratings numbers before the real ones that were actually fairly positive for his show. The Pedophile accusations McAfee isn't *really* trying to defend it, as something that they should be able to do. He is trying to minimize it by saying, Oops sorry we like to have fun and make some jokes and this one went far or whatever. That's not particularly like a good apology or mea culpa or anything. But like he clearly put on his best sleeves and tried to squash it. And then ESPN themselves put out a formal apology. To try and keep from getting sued. Dexo fucked around with this message at 03:19 on Jan 6, 2024 |
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Important to remember that Kimmel works for Disney as well. So ESPN is looking at this as an outside entity coming onto its network and slandering one of their employees.
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Dexo posted:Like I think people are misunderstanding something. That statement about people trying to take down his show. was not about this. It was about someone(the dude he mentioned) leaking false or misleading ratings numbers before the real ones that were actually fairly positive for his show. Okay, that's fair enough. I'll raise my hand that I misunderstood this, but I will say pretty bad timing on his part.
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The NCAA thread has already answered how to pronounce his name with “Noah Naysayer”.
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Simplex posted:I think I'm pretty amused that this is the hill that McAfee's choosing to die on. His lawyers probably told him that there's a possibility that his punishment could be having to wear a shirt with sleeves.
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Rodgers made a non-apology apology today https://twitter.com/mediaite/status/1744796845841252752?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA
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Wow, who could have guessed this was everyone else’s fault except Aaron Rodgers’?
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Cynically I understand that ESPN lets him keep coming on because it might mean people tune in to their non-live-sports content (I have no interest in watching PTI/AtH/First Take anymore), but I’m so curious if the ratings are actually pretty poor for McAfee, and that exec spilling the beans would spoil the only “interesting” thing they’ve had going for them since most of the big names left and it became the SAS channel edit: I completely forgot this happened; Jeopardy’s hosts post-Trebek has really been something to behold https://x.com/slmandel/status/1744787038715720106?s=20 Nybble fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jan 9, 2024 |
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I thought Mcafee's ratings were pretty good? And yeah Rogers was actually pretty decent at hosting. He's fairly naturally charismatic and he doesn't really care about people watching him, which is a good combo for a game show host. Doesn't mean you know poo poo about anything though.
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McAfee ratings are fine, but it's data any side can present to suit their argument. SportsCenter a year ago had higher television ratings, Pat's down 12%~ Ah, but he has 400k+ YouTube viewers Ah, but what's ESPN's cut of the ad revenue on Pat's YT shows, and are they seeing audience, uh, cross-over (retention doesn't work for this sort of thing) into other ESPN properties? Ah, but should everyone involved be thrown into a ravine and their salaries used to fund social programs? And so on
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It is pretty wild to spend 20 minutes of supposedly prime sports time to talk about Dr. Fouci and Jimmy Kimmel when the National Championship just happened the night prior, on their own network
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I mean was he even talking about football on that show? https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/status/1745130739748765878?s=46&t=BHs6Pl38GJXGN2Y4xeriNA
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I think he talked about football after like half an hour of rambling about Covid, Fauci, Kimmel, the media, cancel culture, and how much research he’s done and how smart he is and how everyone else is out to get him. I think. I don’t know because that show is unwatcheable even when he’s not on.
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He's the guy from the 'I'M BEING CENSORED!' cartoon IRL
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DJExile posted:https://twitter.com/stephenasmith/status/1745158830785278441?s=46&t=LoZaJh99UmJ9X87kU4A0dA Weird timing. Zion is playing pretty good right now.
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soggybagel posted:Who was the homosexual NOT Kobe Bryant! Listening to his take on Whitlock and while I'm enjoying him roast one of the world's all time morons, it feels like we are currently in peak Sports Media Chat (Media Apex Mountain, if you will). I get that the Rodgers thing became news and this poo poo does big numbers online but it feels like everywhere I look/listen is just Sport Take Guys becoming Sports Media Take Guys. I don't love it. And it's not even like I'm missing The Sports, I just find it can get so self involved and sucks all the air out of everything. Keep it moving people!
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