If there was any doubt how important the Democrat Party is to many figures in the sports media landscape, the 2024 presidential election should officially end it. Almost as soon as it was clear that President-Elect Donald Trump would win, hordes of sports media personalities left Elon Musk’s X social media platform for bluer pastures.
Bluesky, a competitor started by former Twitter head Jack Dorsey, has become the place for the political left to run and hide from free and open discussion on X. So much so that Dorsey earlier in 2024 left the board and urged users to remain on X. Sounds exactly like the place for anti-free speech sports media.
Awful Announcing covered the increasing numbers of left wing sports personalities fleeing any dissenting views to remain safely ensconced in their political echo chamber.
“The current owner of Twitter’s politics aside, his role in the recent election aside, the ways he has changed the platform aside, I think Twitter peaked probably 5-10 years ago, period,” Howard Beck from The Ringer said on the Sports Media with Richard Deitsch podcast, per Awful Announcing.
Beck is a longtime user on Bluesky, which welcomed such luminaries as Mina Kimes, Sarah Spain, Pablo Torre, Rachel Nichols, and Danny Kelly. Suddenly. Just after the 2024 election. What a surprise! […]
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