Awful Announcing
ESPN apparently told Lowe he couldn't have a China expert on his podcast, but then they were okay with Jeremy Schaap trying to line up one for Outside The Lines.
"I believe he wasn't educated on the situation at hand, and he spoke. And so many people could have been harmed not only financially, physically, emotionally, spiritually. ...I believe he was either misinformed or not really educated on the situation, and if he was, then so be it."
"Basketball questions only" was a bad look here.
ESPN has turned down at least three news outlets' requests for comment on a highly-controversial map they ran over a day ago.
ESPN's focus on the basketball issues rather than the root of the Hong Kong protests appears to be by management's design.
