"My hope recently has been that I still have a job. And every morning I wake up to another headline that says I've been fired. If I am fired, it will not be the first time."
"This is not controversial stuff — this merger is illegal and will give Nexstar and TEGNA the ability to control and raise prices, fire journalists, and dominate the media landscape.”
What's long been rumored as the slow fade of Stern's career appears to have finally arrived. This isn't retirement, and it isn't cancellation. It's something murkier.
"You see so many people doing multiple things across the network under the ESPN umbrella. I’ve certainly benefitted from that... The fact that people believe I can do this in addition to everything else, that to me why I feel so validated."
"Convincing millions of subscribers to abandon the on-demand habits that made Netflix the world's biggest streaming service may prove far more expensive than any rights agreement it ever signs."