You hit the nail on the head. The shift to video has absolutely nothing to do with what consumers want and everything to do with what the advertisers are asking for - and more importantly, what they are willing to pay for.

Exactly, its hard enough to pretend to be working while I spend all day here, but trying to make me watch a video? Come on, no one is that good

It’s so bad on ESPN that I don’t even go to that site anymore and it used to be my first choice site for sports news.

Preibus most likely as he also hates Scaramucci and was totally blindsided.

Do these sites not realize what a huge percentage of their audience comes from bored office workers who may well not be able to watch videos without attracting unwanted attention?

Who’s the next on the chopping block? Sessions, right?

Agreed. I hate it. I don’t watch videos on NY Times, WaPo, CNN, ESPN etc. I go to these sites with the expectation of reading. The autoplay videos are the absolute worse. ESPN has them for nearly every article.

Pretty much this.

in order to expand video production

So consumers keep voicing how much they hate video and content producers keep firing writers in favor of videographers?

Sounds like it is another “pivot to video”. The move no one has ever asked for, nor wanted!*

Dude, you used “social justice warrior” unironically. Nobody has to call you an asshole, you self-disclosed.

Taking a knee is a crusade? How does it even obstruct your football viewing in any way?

Then if you don’t give a flying fuck, why do you care if Kap takes a knee?

Leonard Little was resigned and cheered after being convicted of Vehicular Manslaughter (.19 BAC) and another DUI a few years later. Lawrence Phillips was drafted in the top 10 after dragging his girlfriend down a flight of stairs by her hair, Donte Stallworth pled guilty to Vehicular Manslaughter and played two more…

This is what I wrote:

“I’m not a racist”

It’s more like Internet Douchebag Bingo. “SJW” fills one square, “I’m not Racist” fills another.

So how exactly does the guy kneeling affect you if you are just here to watch football anyways? What I mean is, why do you have to write “all I want to do is watch football, I’m not here for social justice warrior shit” at all? If you just strictly want to watch football, ignore it and watch football. Kaepernick…

If you don’t give a flying fuck about some guy’s political crusade, why are you so butthurt about it? Clearly you give a BUNCH of flying fucks about it.