A recent SportsCenter piece on Pacman Jones had a need little addition to it the other day. Apparently ESPN can pick and choose any photo it wants to use for stories on you. LTMA has all the thug lovin’ details….
Adam “Pacman” Jones is a thug transcended. Apparently, no longer a football player, a gifted athlete or an ordinary young man. Just a thug. Easily identified by his mug shot. That must have been why the producers of SportsCenter thought it was appropriate to use Pacman’s photo from his recent booking in Las Vegas as his official chyron photo.
It is beyond reprehensible for ESPN to use Jones’ booking photo to identify him generally. Using the booking photo coupled with the Tennessee Titans logo, as if it was Jones’ “official” photo, visually insinuates and reinforces that Pacman is a criminal, when in fact his “record” has no convictions.
Again, Pacman has “allegedly” done some bad stuff, and the guy hasn’t been convicted of anything. And no matter how you feel about him….this is pretty unfair….
ESPN Thug Love (Leave The Man Alone)
Comments are closed.