I hear what you are saying but granting an opinion is different than granting an opinion for the sole purpose of getting a desired reaction.
Cosell told it like it was based on facts. Smith is solely agendra driven and frankly, to his credit, he has admitted same.
Yep.
Now we are talking about the same guy in Stephen A.
I do not mind him knowing he is all fluff.
Having worked in TV a bit myself...
did some voiceovers for some commercials one time..
it was obvious to me to see the agendas at work.
Local TV stations are owned by huge corporations with profits the bottom line.
Not reporting on what is really going on.
Their motto is "you do not want to know the truth"
so their scrip writers make up their own versions and report on that to keep us entertained and watch their commercial advertising.
Simple.
We tend to forget 95% of programing is fictional.
The rest is actual but you may not learn that until weeks or months later after nobody cares and have moved on to other topics with a retraction or update that has been manipulated to death.
I think that is why sports is so popular.
It's realtime and reporting can't be sidetracked.