ESPN: No tweeting about sports for 48 hours

http://deadspin.com/5968619/

In brief: ESPN leadership has decided that staff members should not tweet about sports beyond breaking news until noon Sunday because of the tragedy in Connecticut.

 

Bristol is about 30 miles from Newtown. Too close to home.

 

I think this is a good idea, because of the format.

Until everyone kind of caught wind of Newtown this afternoon, it was odd to read Tweets about the Michael Bourn or Nick Swisher sweepstakes interspersed among updates from Connecticut.

 

This makes up for Rob Parker.

 

I'm all for less tweeting of everything, but WTF do ESPN's sports tweets have to do with the shooting? People won't talk about RG3's injury status because of this?

I think it's just as likely they issued the ban in order to quell the Parker situation.

 

Also happens to end just in time for NFL Sunday.

 

"Also happens to end just in time for NFL Sunday."

Yes, but they're not calling it Showdown Sunday anymore. Huge sacrifice

 

Did they do that after the shootings at Virginia Tech or Aurora, Colorado ... or even at the Oregon mall this week?

If not, then it seems odd to make policy by cherry picking your tragedies.

 

Pretty sure they didn't.

This is just grandstanding on ESPN's part.

 

Cherrypicking indeed. Just like Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi, etc., holding a benefit concert for Hurricane Sandy victims, but we don't hear a peep out of them when the Gulf Coast is ravaged by a hurricane.

 

How fortunate for them that they can end the moratorium just in time for the glorious NFL on Sunday.

 

Seriously?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hurricane_Katrina_relief_benefit_concerts