There's no more sports in sports media. ESPN is more E!-SPN than anything nowadays, and Fox Sports is leaning more towards Fox News....neither of those are a good thing.
The reason I'm writing this because of this Frank Clark story that's in the news. He beat allegedly beat his girlfriend and that got him kicked of the Michigan football team. The Seahawks "investigated" him and still drafted him. A horrible story. My concern is why is this something that needs to take up several segments on a sports show. I know if there's something on TV I don't like I can always change the channel. Thats why I don't watch E!, Bravo, A&E, Lifetime, Oxygen, O! Network, WE, TLC, CNN, Fox News, Showtime, HGTV, CBS, CSPAN, CNBC, MSNBC, Golf Channel, MTV, or VH1. But when all the channels I do watch are talking about the same thing, it's difficult to find alternatives. I just saw Fox Sports 1 have a panel discuss Frank Clark for five minutes. Get the story out there, let people know what happened and that's it. What bothers me most is that we're subjected to watch these people talk about a man who is accused of doing some horrific things to a woman, when there is hundreds and hundreds of other athletes performing that aren't accused of these things and we're not hearing anything about them.
Floyd Mayweather is another great example of all of this. It seemed like the only thing people were interested in talking about the week leading up to the biggest fight in years was his history of domestic violence, which is horrid. There was talk of trying to get people to boycott the fight. You know what would've been a great way of getting people to boycott the fight? How about informing the public of what a boring fight it was going to be? The man hasn't had an entertaining fight since 2007. I am no expert by any means, but I knew going in it was going to be a snooze fest.
Let me be clear about one thing, the above is terribly written. I've had too much ice cream and been listening to sports stations talk about domestic violence for about the 567th time in the last 6 months. I'm just tired of it. I can't blame them for talking about. And the thing that pisses me off more than anything is that they have to. Because there's still these stupid "men" that see the need to lay their hands on a woman. My strife with the media is really a strife with all these people that continue to do these horrific acts. Maybe I'll just become Batman and stop all the violence in the world.
