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Update (moments before I hit publish):
“There is a lot of speculation on the Internet about whether or not Damar Hamlin will recover from his injury.
I am very sad to report that this is unlikely.
While I very much hope that I am wrong about this, the evidence that is known is not favorable.”
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/the-most-likely-scenario-is-that
I link to another Steve Kirsch article later…
What happened last night on Monday Night Football?
In broad strokes, we know what happened: a young ballplayer, Damar Hamlin, went into cardiac arrest during the course of play.
But the reaction to this terrible event has been all over the board with virtue-signaling from all sides without a concern for the truth.
There has been no legitimate reporting on the event from the news or sports media. Anything we’re finding out is because of independent media. I am not sure what all of this means, but I have some thoughts…
In this podcast, I analyze last night's events and it only runs about 30 minutes. But if you want to get a bird’s eye view of what I’m talking about, the rest of these show notes should suffice.
The talking heads on ESPN were stuck with talking about an event that nobody can really prepare for. Instead of rising to the occasion, the hours of coverage—until they strangely cut to an axe-throwing competition after the Bills-Bengals game was ultimately postponed for the night—were full of fluff and talking for talk’s sake.
We learned very little about what happened to Damar Hamlin other than he received CPR and went to the hospital and remained in stable but critical condition.
https://youtu.be/r1Z9Vd53yhI
The folks on ESPN emoted and talked. We learned nothing other than certain people lack composure on air when push comes to shove.
Ironically, an article that came my way earlier today praised the efforts of the entire ESPN team and its coverage, going so far as to call it a “masterclass” and that “we’ll be teaching their coverage of Monday night’s story in journalism school for decades.” This is from a supposedly credible writer.
He went on. “There was no speculation. No rumors. No reporting of what was being speculated on Twitter. Just honest conversations, straight reporting, real human emotion.”
In case you’d like to know more about these factual but feckless statements, I analyze the situation in more detail on the podcast.
One thing we didn’t mention was Skip Bayless’s reaction to all of this. In the first place, Skip is a world class jerk and he doesn’t help himself when he tries to Tweet or talk himself out of the various predicaments he caused by his own words.
Jason Whitlock Tweeted what are essentially my sentiments about Bayless in this situation:
“It’s all so phony. All of it. The outrage toward Skip and this reaction by Skip. It’s all performance. Sad and embarrassing.”
https://twitter.com/WhitlockJason/status/1610288252925222912?s=20&t=_GviJG4RxbG_dDpW8c832Q
The problem in all this coverage is that nobody was even the least bit willing to put on the mere façade of being a journalist.
As I saw it from the beginning, ESPN was in no position…
