The wide majority of corporate political journalists are Democrat activists.
And sports journalists are shockingly to the left of even them.
And one former ESPN writer boycotted the Final Four for an insane reason.
In 2016, a larger percentage of sports journalists voted for Hillary Clinton than did political journalists.
The sports media coverage over the past seven years has borne that out.
Sports reporters are flat-out leftist activists.
One sterling example is sportswriter John Feinstein, who was once a regular on ESPN’s Sports Reporters with host Dick Schaap.
Feinstein, a Duke graduate and college basketball maven, announced in a Washington Post op-ed that he boycotted the Final Four in Houston, Texas, because of gun laws.
Feinstein wrote, “This would have been my 40th Final Four…[T]his is my kind of Final Four. I’m not going for one simple reason: On June 2, nine days after 19 schoolchildren and two teachers were shot and killed at Robb Elementary in Uvalde, Tex., I wrote a column urging the NCAA to move this year’s Final Fours out of Texas — the women’s event is in Dallas — until and unless that state passed something resembling meaningful gun legislation.”
So because the NCAA did not do what Feinstein wanted, he refused to go cover the event.
This is the malignant narcissism of the left on full display.
Democrats like Feinstein know nothing about guns, but masquerade as experts and moral authorities.
Feinstein is from New York City, so he would presumably have to boycott his hometown because of shooting incidents.
Feinstein’s ostentatious boycott of the Final Four shows the left only cares about gun crime that can be sensationalized into a narrative in favor of gun control.
He added, “The 2025 men’s Final Four is scheduled for San Antonio. That’s plenty of time for the NCAA to go back to politicians in Texas and say, ‘Pass some meaningful gun laws before the 2024 Final Four or we aren’t coming back.’ That’s plenty of time for the board of governors to conduct ‘the most careful engagement with the membership.’”
What those “meaningful gun laws” would be, Feinstein has no clue because he’s willfully clueless about guns and crime.
Feinstein is virtue-signaling to fellow gun-grabbers who don’t know a thing about firearms.
“There’s nothing I can do, say or write to turn the NCAA into an organization with moral standards. Last week, John I. Jenkins, the president of Notre Dame, and Jack Swarbrick, his athletic director, wrote an op-ed in the New York Times about their concern that name, image and likeness deals are ‘professionalizing’ college athletics. Athletes getting paid is a major concern for them. Children being in mortal danger merely by going to school? Not so much,” Feinstein concluded.
The handwringing over guns is always the call “do something.”
However, what that “something” is never gets articulated into any policy that would make a difference – but that isn’t the point.
The virtue-signaling is the point.