ESPN Panelist: Dallas Police Shooting a ‘Revenge Story’
By Bruce Bookter | July 10, 2016 | 4:13 PM EDT
The meaning and definition of “sports commentator,” is a term in dire need of radical revision these days. While recently-fired ESPN MLB analyst Curt Schilling languishes in major sports media unemployment, for violating ESPN’s rules on wading into political topics of an “inflammatory” nature, the still well-employed ESPN and Washington Post “sports commentator” Kevin B. Blackistone penned a piece titled “White America’s biggest nightmare: Black men who violently sow disillusionment.”
Despite writing on a highly inflammatory topic of this nature, Blackistone, as of this writing, is still employed by ESPN. Because nothing matters anymore.
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