Too Long for a Tweet, Too Short for a Blog Post XXIII
Here's an excerpt from an article I just read, "In Brooklyn, Fox Meets Its Match on the Soccer Pitch":
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Fox-sponsored jerseys arrived with no advance notice and no opportunity
to decline, and AYSO perhaps underestimated the extent to which many
Brooklyn parents require trigger warnings when faced with the potential
for contact with Rupert Murdoch. That Fox Sports, which broadcasts
soccer, is not the same thing as Fox News has made little difference.
Nor has the fact that some of the distressed parents have presumably
consumed hours of “Glee,” or “Empire,” for instance, on the Fox network.
The notion of corporate sponsorship, even more generally, is
unpalatable. As Jeremy Shannon, both an assistant coach and a referee
for his children’s teams, put it in a letter of protest to AYSO’s
directors that he shared with various parents this month: “A serious
discussion needs to be had in the association if our kids are now
billboards for sale.”
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