Mickey Mouse News Operation

 

ABC Nightly News did a lot to damage its integrity this evening.

The network on at least three occasions promoted a "story" in its "newscast" about the upcoming NFL college player draft being held in Cleveland  this year.

I had planned on turning off the newscast about 15 minutes in, but ended up watching until the final "story" which was about the draft.  Seems as if the news story was just a promo for the draft which would air later in the evening on the ABC network.  ABC which is owned by Walt Disney Corporation, and which carries the league's games, tried to justify is deceptive practices by interviewing the commissioner of the league Roger Goodell.  Goodell told ABC News this year would be better than last year's draft because fans would be back in attendance.

No kidding?

ABC there are a number of options for national and international news besides your Disney directed agenda.  Keep it up and you will not be an option for a lot of people.

The 2021 version of Major League Baseball is underway and unfortunately for baseball fans it's the same boring version of MLB played for, well, too long.

The Royals and Rangers played an afternoon game today won by Kansas City 14-10.  The talking heads at ESPN might try to tell you this is a great start to what might be a spectacular season.  Don't buy into it.  The time of the game was 4 hours and 26 minutes.  Sure, there were a lot of runs scored and a lot of pitching changes, but the game was boring.  It featured 17 walks and 24 strikeouts with three home runs.

Maybe someone somewhere has four and a half  hours to devote to watching these snooze fests.  But, even though I am retired I have many better things to do than watch a bunch of overpaid athletes strike out and walk while swinging for the fences on every pitch.

And MLB  wonders  why its attendance and viewership continue to plummet.