The Unethical ESPN Four are just part of a much bigger problem, one that now casts a shadow of doubt on all of the news operations of the Walt Disney Company, which owns ESPN and also ABC News," he writes.
"What if Citibank paid the Wall Street Journal’s David Wessel? The Patton Boggs lobbying firm paid ABC’s Jake Tapper? Moody’s PBS Newshour’s Paul Solmon by Moody’s? Their unassailable work would no longer be trustworthy. Indeed, imagine that Richard Sandomir,
nike shox running shoes the NYTimes sports reporter who broke this story, was being secretly paid by Fox Sports and that news broke right after his piece on the secret payments to ESPN reporters was published. Oh, the howls we could expect from Mr. Krulewitz, whose employer competes with Fox to air games."
"Of course, Iger can do nothing. He can look the other way. But if Iger does nothing his inaction will only arouse suspicions about every journalistic enterprise Disney is engaged in, leaving doubt as to who may be on the take,
nike air running shoes whose agenda is being advanced by greasing palms and which critical stories are fueled by under-the-table payments to on-air employees or maybe those unseen producers who direct much of what gets on the air."
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