ESPN Jumps the Gun Again to Try and Break the Lidle Story
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by user LastRow
Okay, I had planned on writing this piece on the two baseball teams in New York and how even though the Mets are still the only New York baseball team still playing, that somehow doesn’t seem to matter to anyone. The Yankees, for whatever reason are still front page news. However, due to the tragic events that “apparently”, (and I choose to use this term wisely, unlike some) took place in New York this afternoon I’d like to shift my focus to the media, particularly ESPN as they have done a piss poor job in covering this story!
About 4:50 p.m. Eastern time ESPN broke in & was the first to report Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle had perished in the plane crash on New York City’s Upper East Side. Previously I had been watching MSNBC & Fox News, before switching on over to ESPN. Like respectable news stations do, both were mentioning the fact that somehow & in some way Cory Lidle could be connected to this plane crash, in some way, but they didn’t want to jump the gun. So if these two stations couldn’t confirm anything, how in the hell can ESPN be the first to do so? Um, hello, you guys handle sports…not everyday news. You guys certainly aren’t qualified to do this…that’s why they have MSNBC & Fox News, just like those respective news stations aren’t qualified enough to break sports stories as you guys are. What, did Jeremy Schaap get an inside tip or something?
So you guys were the first to report the sudden passing of Cory Lidle…However, for the next two hours you clowns kept saying shit like “The apparent passing”, “What’d we think”, "The presumed passing”, “what we believed to be Lidle,” etc, all were said over the first two hours of this story on ESPN. Hello, did you scumbags know for sure? NO, you were just reporting rumors. I’m not in the big-time field of journalism here, but I did get a degree in it. First thing we learned, “Don’t Ever Go With a Story Based on Assumptions with no hard evidence, as you did early today! Otherwise more times then not you tend to get egg on your face.
Okay, so his passport was found on the ground above the building…Hey, guess what, that kind of evidence wouldn’t stand up in a court of law! In addition you tell us that the bodies have yet to be properly identified. Now I’m not sitting here saying that Cory Lidle didn’t parish this afternoon…However, lets just say for whatever known reason Lidle let someone use his plane today. How would you guy looked? For some reason the term ASSHOLES come to mind! Isn’t proper procedure to let the family of the victim know before the rest of the nation? No, not in Bristol, CT at ESPN headquarters…We want to be the first to break the story! Yeah, just like Terrell Owens took 35 pills & tried to kill himself. Did you actually think some poor sap would actually believe that shit. Although, you didn’t care because as “THE WORLDWIDE LEADER IN SPORTS” you bozos wanted to break the news on that as well!
Hmm, ESPN handles anything outside the world of sports & actually involves everyday news is very piss poor. While I hope & pray it isn’t what it may seem as it is in New York, I do so hoping once again you come out of this looking like the horses ass! See, that’s the big difference when reporting sport’s news & news in everyday life…Sport’s news, that’s always surrounded by hearsay, rumors, and that kind of shit. Everyday news involves getting enough hard evidence/facts to first report on and then relaying that to the public. Difference is there’s no hearsay…And that’s all you did this afternoon for the first couple of hours of this tragic story…Purely reported on hearsay. Just as two weeks earlier when T.O. tried to take his own life. Do yourself a favor ESPN and just stick to the kind of news that you are best suited to report…And leave the more important news, stories about who’s dead or alive, to the real professionals in the media! Or how about if I put it in terms you guys may understand…You’re turning the ball over way too much!
RIP Cory! LastRowSports.com
