21 Dec, 2009
Why ESPN keeps growing while most everything else falls apart
Posted by: Mark In: sports journalism
For virtually every other American old-media company, this decade has been one of collapse, of downsizing, of a steady chipping away of authority. The theme of this decade in news media could easily be Yeats’ line, “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”
Yet for ESPN, this has been the decade of expansion, of hegemony, of steadily mounting authority.