Hour 2: How Biased Is The Media, Really?
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ESPN Radio
4.0 • 5.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:26.5 | Social media has infiltrated all levels of society, especially sports and of course sports media. |
| 0:32.2 | However, for LeBron James, the noise has gotten too loud and he's decided to unplug. |
| 0:38.1 | LeBron made two posts yesterday on X. |
| 0:40.8 | I will read them to you. |
| 0:42.5 | The first one, simply saying amen to a previous post by Kevin Durant's longtime manager, |
| 0:47.7 | Rich Kleinman, which read with so much hate and negativity in the world today, |
| 0:51.4 | it confuses me why some of the national sports media still thinks |
| 0:54.9 | that the best way to cover sports is through negative takes. We can all acknowledge that sports |
| 0:59.8 | is the last part of society that universally brings people together. So why can't the coverage |
| 1:04.9 | do the same? It's only clipbait when you say it. When the platform is so big, you can make the |
| 1:10.0 | change and allow us all an escape from real life negativity. I, for one, find it all a waste of breath. The Olympics in J.J. and LeBron's show was the future of what this can and should all be. LeBron then followed that up on social media with this post. And with that, I'm getting off social media |
| 1:29.1 | for the first time, take care. LeBron's announcement came one day after he said everybody on the |
| 1:34.9 | internet called me a liar all the time. And when he said that he was watching Dalton Connect's |
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