Considering the unfamiliar circumstances, ESPN handled its Damar Hamlin coverage as well as anyone could have expected, JimmyTraina writes
This is the first Traina Thoughts of 2023, so right off the top I want to thank you for reading as we embark on another year together. I’ve been writing Traina Thoughts every weekday since 2017, and before that I wrote Hot Clicks every weekday from ’07 to ’13, so I thank you for the continued support. I’ll never be able to express how appreciative I am for your loyalty.
Before I get into anything regarding the media, I want to offer praise for all of the medical professionals who were working at the game and at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center who have attended to Hamlin. We still don’t know what’s going to happen, but all of those people had a part in keeping Hamlin alive in surreal circumstances, and they should be celebrated every day.
So many people had opinions on what ESPN should’ve done. I saw people say it was in bad taste for them to air commercials. I saw people say they should’ve cut away from coverage and aired a replay of a bowl game. I saw people say it wasn’t fair that the talent had to keep the coverage going. The on-air personalities at ESPN had one job and one job only on Monday night: Don’t speculate. About anything. And they did not. All the broadcasters could do was tell us what they knew and give us the facts. The issue was that there wasn’t much news, so it seemed like we were in a loop of going from Buck and Aikman in the booth to Kolber, McFarland and Schefter in studio, where they kept repeating the same few updates. And that was fine. That’s what they should’ve done.
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