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Blue_Adept

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2. The broadcast business is toxic

Reply to spanone (Reply #1)

Mon Jul 3, 2017, 03:09 PM

Jul 2017

Decades of this kind of stuff is built into it thanks to the likes of Roger Ailes. He was the most well known in the modern era but his kind permeated this business for a long, long, time and it doesn't just disappear because those people are gone.

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fox is toxic. spanone Jul 2017 #1

The broadcast business is toxic Blue_Adept Jul 2017 #2

ESPN, NBC, FOX ... GeorgeGist Jul 2017 #3

Yes indeed. Glad to bump the thread for your comment. Raine1967 Jul 2017 #6

Is Fox News just a giant gentlemen's club? Initech Jul 2017 #4

Sports programming sucks for women. The women who are qualified are passed over for the model typas madinmaryland Jul 2017 #5