ESPN in business with team it covers to sell advertising for ESPNBoston.com
- Commenters add perspective as always:
- (ProFootballTalk.com): "Maybe ESPN wants to be criticized.
- ESPN has hired Kraft Sports Group to sell local advertising for the fledgling
- ESPNBoston.com.
- Even more amazing is that the SBD report from John Ourand and Daniel Kaplan doesn't even bat an eye at one of the most blatant and obvious conflicts of interest we ever have seen.
- This is a sports news outlet entering into a significant business partnership with one of the handful of teams that will be covered by the ESPNBoston.com site....
- still ends up buried at the bottom of the alphabet junkyard." "ESPN, Patriots create an obvious conflict of interest," by Mike Florio, 9/24/09
- "Triumph40 says: September 24, 2009 10:18 AM,
- I never really disliked New England until ESPN has gone out of their way to shove them down our throats. Now I loathe, despite, detest, and in all other ways dislike the Patriots and ESPN. "
- "emulcifier says: September 24, 2009 10:25 AM
Whenever anyone doesn't have competition, they produce less-than-stellar output.
It'd be really nice if another sports network could get national syndication, because
ESPN is really marketed towards
- "Hap says: September 24, 2009 10:25 AM
Certainly you're not just discovering there's a connection between The Cheatriot's and northEast Sox and Patriot Network, are you ? That relationship is soooo sickening that I don't even watch that network unless I can't find a game anywhere else to watch. Now if you will notice that
not only do they promote the northeast teams, but they put down anyone else who's a threat. Why do you think
they hate The Cowboy's and The Yankee's so much? And that's just the tip of the iceberg. You DO NOT want to get me started on espn. They are douchebags from Hades."...
- Bristol's proximity to Boston."...
- from Sports Business Daily, 8/28/09, "ESPN Planning to Launch Boston Website on September 14, 'Twitter Reax'"
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