{"id":186,"date":"2008-01-18T08:43:10","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=186"},"modified":"2008-01-18T17:12:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T01:12:59","slug":"bleiler-on-the-cover-of-espn-the-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=186","title":{"rendered":"Bleiler On The Cover of ESPN The Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/104bw.embedded.prod-affiliate.42.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/104bw.embedded.prod-affiliate.42.jpg','popup','width=240,height=299,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/104bw.embedded.prod-affiliate.42-tm.jpg\" height=\"249\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"104Bw.Embedded.Prod Affiliate.42\" \/><\/a>Here is a classic case of conflict of interest: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN the Magazine<\/a><\/strong> is covering <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.expn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The X Games<\/a><\/strong>, a wholly-owned product of <strong>Disney\/ABC\/ESPN<\/strong> as an actual sporting event when, in fact, it is a made-for-TV action sports spectacle. <\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re glad that <strong>Gretchen Bleiler<\/strong> can get this kind of coverage (she&#8217;s only the fourth woman ever to be featured on the magazine&#8217;s cover), and she looks great on the cover, but please, isn&#8217;t <strong>ESPN <\/strong>doing enough self-promotion for their <strong>X Games<\/strong> brand already? Obviously, no one cares about any of this because all the coverage helps move product. Then why aren&#8217;t we happy about it? We&#8217;ll get back to you on that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.centredaily.com\/business\/story\/337915.html\" target=\"_blank\">Center Daily<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a classic case of conflict of interest: ESPN the Magazine is covering The X Games, a wholly-owned product of Disney\/ABC\/ESPN as an actual sporting event when, in fact, it is a made-for-TV action sports spectacle. We&#8217;re glad that Gretchen Bleiler can get this kind of coverage (she&#8217;s only the fourth woman ever to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}