Gregg Easterbrook Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“But by showing us live coverage of every bad thing happening everywhere in the world, cable news makes life seem like it's just an endless string of disasters - when, for most people in most places today, life is fairly good.”

“And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.”

“But if you could make that mistake and press the send button and the entire world sees it forever.”

“I didn't view myself as attacking the boss. I viewed my boss at ESPN as the publisher and president of ESPN.”

“I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.”

“I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.”

“I'm a smart guy, I know the history of this issue and why people care about it.”

“Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.”

“And if there was something, suppose I wanted to write something really damning or embarrassing about one of the owners, that would really be a problem on the NFL's site.”

“Even though Rush is not me and the situations were very different, I think, in the Rush Limbaugh thing, ESPN was criticized for not acting, and you remember that after a couple days of controversy over Rush.”