Got Damn ESPN

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

That's not for you to decide and try to control. I have no problem with you having an opinion but when you try and turn into some sort of god and use that opinion to control the press and restrict what others can see, that's when I tell you to gfy.

My opinion is that the 11:00pm local NBC news affiliate doesn't have to dig up and show every scrape of video they have of Eight Belles dying when discussing this story.

Including, after showing all the film they have of her laying on her side with the vets giving her injections and her legs straight out to the side, quivering - a pan shot, with the news announcer saying, "Watch here, in the corner of this clip of Big Brown, Eight Belles is the head in the right hand corner, you can see her bob her head and go down". And the overhead of her going down.

I have every right to complain loud, long and publically to the news editor about deciding to show gratuitous video crap of a horse in severe distress and dying that adds nothing whatsoever explainatory to the story.

You're free to contact him and encourage him to show more of it.