ESPN Ombudsman's great work may be for nothing--NY Post

NY Post: "SPORTS fans no longer watch ESPN because they want to, but because they have to. You know it. ESPN likely knows it. So what?

• Last Wednesday, ESPN's Website ran a column written by its ombudswoman, Le Anne Schreiber, a piece critical of her network for suffocating everything it owns with promotion and cross-promotion.

Good for her. And good for ESPN for allowing such a thing.

• But so what?

The next night, from the start of ESPN's UNC-Rutgers, through every game that appeared Saturday afternoon on ESPN, ESPNU, ESPN2 and ESPN on ABC, the goal was to hype Saturday night's ESPN/ABC Ohio St.-USC telecast. Even though it needed none.

• Thus ESPN completed another week in which anything that may have been worth our time was marinated - drowned - in obnoxious, insulting promotional excess....

ESPN just grins and nods. As long we have to watch ESPN, why should ESPN care if we want to?"...

• Phil Mushnick has an item about Chris Russo:

(NY Post): "Once again, last week, Chris Russo was invited on David Letterman not as a talent,

• but as a forced and freakish cackling clown, someone to laugh at (not with). And, once again, Russo delivered."...

(My comment): Chris Russo is long past the point where he should revert to this persona for someone like Letterman. Russo is extremely gifted and intelligent, a unique persona which cannot be duplicated. He has proved this over many years. Stop acting like a goof for people like Letterman. (sm)

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