Comments on: The ESPN Dedicated Local Coverage Debate – Is ESPN Local Coverage Good For Sports, Fans? http://thesportsdebates.com/2009/07/29/the-espn-dedicated-local-coverage-debate-%e2%80%93-is-espn-local-coverage-good-for-sports-fans/ Intelligent Sports Debates For The Sophisticated Fan Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:51:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sports Geek http://thesportsdebates.com/2009/07/29/the-espn-dedicated-local-coverage-debate-%e2%80%93-is-espn-local-coverage-good-for-sports-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:55:31 +0000 http://thesportsdebates.com/?p=1357#comment-810 They are each national news outlets, I think it’s hard to brand them as “state run media” — which is something completely different.

What they have in common is a great deal of “mind-share” (Read: eyeballs) paying attention to them, and people trusting them to filter their news. Discussion on how they use their filter and what their filter means for news is an entirely different debate.

]]> By: bobbygee http://thesportsdebates.com/2009/07/29/the-espn-dedicated-local-coverage-debate-%e2%80%93-is-espn-local-coverage-good-for-sports-fans/comment-page-1/#comment-809 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 18:51:04 +0000 http://thesportsdebates.com/?p=1357#comment-809 ESPN is a joke.. You mention CNN and ESPN in the same breath. CNN is a bigger joke. They all are state run media. Give me a break.

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