Political advertising was never built as a meritocracy, and campaigns don't always spend where the numbers point them. They spend where the instinct — and the image — feels safest.
"My wife and my kids will forever be the priority. I’ll literally walk away from anything if I felt it was a detriment to them and my family. I got the greatest job because I don’t get flack from my bosses knowing what’s most important to me."
"Professional franchises don’t have to agree with a media member. They don’t have to like the questions being asked or the opinions being offered. But when a credential is pulled immediately after pointed criticism and no explanation is provided, it creates the appearance that a dissenting voice is being punished for being dissenting."
"It was one of the best football shows I have seen in quite a while. While different in format, the program reminded me of the old Jon Gruden’s Quarterback Camp on ESPN. It was in-depth, all-encompassing and quite entertaining."
“I think that they probably gave him some passes and maybe didn't report as accurately or as honestly as they should have, because of who his father was.”
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"Where do you draw the line and say, 'okay, there's got to be some time when you can talk to your team and say what you have to say, and it's really not for everybody else to hear'?”
"That number is measured in ticket and merchandise sales as well as the advertising value of the time ESPN, FOX, CBS and others have spent either talking about the football team and its coach or broadcasting its games."
“If you have a game going back and forth like they had in that particular game, it's easy to get caught up in the emotion of the game...It was like two or three plays, touchdown!"
Political advertising was never built as a meritocracy, and campaigns don't always spend where the numbers point them. They spend where the instinct — and the image — feels safest.
"My wife and my kids will forever be the priority. I’ll literally walk away from anything if I felt it was a detriment to them and my family. I got the greatest job because I don’t get flack from my bosses knowing what’s most important to me."
"Professional franchises don’t have to agree with a media member. They don’t have to like the questions being asked or the opinions being offered. But when a credential is pulled immediately after pointed criticism and no explanation is provided, it creates the appearance that a dissenting voice is being punished for being dissenting."