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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 384.555 EAN: 9780878332700 ISBN: 0878332707 Label: Taylor Trade Publishing Manufacturer: Taylor Trade Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 340 Publication Date: January 25, 2002 Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing Studio: Taylor Trade Publishing Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: This book traces the first 24-hour sports network from its inception through its evolution into a slick media outlet reaching more than 60 million homes via more than 26,000 cable providers. ESPN has blazed a stunning path of achievement with its expansive coverage of broadcast sports--spinning off into ESPN2, ESPN Classic Sports, ESPNews, and ESPN Magazine. This paperback reveals the most recent developments at ESPN since the publication of the hardback, including the network's aggressive reactions to the book. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Good Look at How ESPN Changed the Sports MediaIn "ESPN: The Uncensored Story," author Michael Freeman documents how ESPN revolutionized sports television by introducing hard journalism to the airwaves. Freeman explains that ESPN became the first sports television outlet to acquire experienced print journalists who broke stories as they unfolded and aired critical stories, many of which led to changes that benefited both athletes and fans. In the process, Freeman sheds light on the network's own internal problems including sexual harassment, ... Read More Rating: - Pretty good.Very good book from a history perspective, providing ample information about the many factors that collided at the right place and time to allow the formation of ESPN. Almost too much information, in some respects. Once ESPN gets underway, though, the history aspect takes a backseat to the various (well-supported) allegations made against ESPN, largely misogyny and sexism. Though important in their own right, and in the context of ESPN's history, perhaps they were featured more prominently than ... Read More Rating:  - Sensationalist reporter bores readersThis writer seems to have the single purpose of pointing out the flaws of ESPN and leaves out all the great and interesting stories I wanted to read about. Again and again he writes about sexual harrasment at the network. Well, yes, that's bad stuff, and worthy of a chapter. But that is basically the subject of the whole book! How about some good stories about the anchors and play-by-play of how they got some of the biggest scoops, etc? This book is all about the internal bickering and problems. At ... Read More Rating:  - not bad, but too much sexual harassment angleI think Freeman's book is a good history of how ESPN became the media giant that it is (I was born in 1982-- i cant imagine life without ESPN), but the book focused WAY too much on the sexual harassment angle, and it bogs down the story. Rating: - Very disappointing...I'd read mixed reviews when Freeman's history first came out, so I wasn't anticipating a great book. Unfortunately, ...ESPN: The Uncensored History... fell fall short of even my rather tempered expectations. A large part of the problem is that ...Uncensored... can't decide whether it is a corporate retrospective or a tell-all expose. Freeman spends the first third of the book on a rather dull detailing of how ESPN was founded, the close calls it encountered in finding financing and trying ... Read More 
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