All I will ask is do you think they published the apology because they thought Champion was out of order or because a bunch of RAWK-types screamed blue murder at the sheer injustice of describing Suarez a 'cheat' after a handball that may or may not have been an intentional handball?
Of course a media organisation aren't going to publicly condemn one of their own without any external pressure, that's life, that's protecting your image, that's saving face.
Does that mean people's complaints are unjustified? That they can be discredited as 'RAWK-types screaming blue murder at injustice'? Does it fuck, and that's an argument lacking refinement or intelligence. Also an ironic one when it's Jon Champion who threw out the term 'injustice', not those filling out ESPN's online complaints form en masse.
At the very least it sets a poor precedent for media outlets who'll give in to the loud-mouthed easily-offended masses. I don't condone his comments but that's surely all that needs to be said about it, not a public condemnation of him by his employers.
I suppose it doesn't matter too much though as ESPN is losing most of their football broadcasting rights soon.
It's not important to you, nor are you offended, because you don't take exception to the message he's sending. That doesn't mean he should be sending that message. You'd be taking a much different stance if he'd called RVP a cheat in the very same instance.
"The work of a cheat?" Are you fucking serious? I didn't watch it on ESPN, but the Suarez hate bandwagon on FootyGaf was enough to make me hurl.
That's what he said immediately, on his very first viewing of the slow-motion replay.
Couldn't care less what's said on here, for various, blatant reasons, but that one got me agitated.
