This Eddie Johnson? No, THAT Eddie Johnson.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by ktsnake

Have you ever considered ESPN to be a credible news organization?

ESPN does a better job creating news than it does at reporting it.

It wasn't always that way, and even now some of the reporters are solid with good backgrounds (Gammons, Bob Ley, Michael Wilbon, Dan Patrick, John Clayton, etc.). Over the years, though, the entertainment aspect has become more important, and they've put former athletes (Joe Morgan, John Kruk and Sterling Sharpe, for example) into news roles that don't fit them. I'm not sure what their viewership numbers are, but I think they may be losing more of the diehard sports fans, the people who know their stuff.

I'm hoping Tony Kornheiser does well on MNF, because he's a good sportswriter, is smart and really funny. However, I'm afraid it will end up another experiment gone wrong.

[Thrillhouse]

I may be a bit off base here but ESPN has to "create" news and entertainment and such to survive. People have many different ways to get scores and such from the games that they are interested in hearing about. The thought is, you can quick go online and find out who won the Detroit-Boston game and be done with it. The added personalities and "expert" analysis is something that is harder to find, therefore more people will stick around and watch shows like sportscenter. I tuned out ESPN long ago but as a business, thats how they look at it. To keep viewer interest, they have to provide something that you may not get everyday.