Editing ESPN (section)

==Criticism==
{{Main|Criticism of ESPN}}
ESPN has been criticized for focusing too much on men's college and professional sports (particularly the NBA and NFL), and very little on women's sports or extreme sports.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The ESPN effect: exploring the worldwide leader in sports|last=Lavelle|first=Katherine L|others=McGuire, John, 1961–, Armfield, Greg G.; Earnheardt, Adam C., 1970–|year=2015|isbn=978-1-4331-2600-0|location=New York|chapter=Chapter 10 The ESPN Effect Representation of Women in 30 for 30 Films|oclc=917889678}}</ref> [[Baseball]], [[ice hockey]], and [[association football|soccer]] fans have also criticized ESPN for not giving their respective sports more coverage.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/ct-espn-hockey-coverage-stanley-cup-playoffs-20170427-story.html|title=ESPN just gutted its hockey coverage in the middle of the Stanley Cup playoffs|first=Dan|last=Steinberg|newspaper=Chicago Tribune|access-date=April 17, 2020|archive-date=December 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203055736/https://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/hockey/ct-espn-hockey-coverage-stanley-cup-playoffs-20170427-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://worldsoccertalk.com/2018/04/10/espn-another-smack-face-soccer-fans/|title=ESPN+ is another smack in the face for soccer fans – World Soccer Talk|date=April 10, 2018|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-date=June 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628072706/http://worldsoccertalk.com/2018/04/10/espn-another-smack-face-soccer-fans/|url-status=live}}</ref> Other criticism has focused on ethnicity in ESPN's varying mediated forms, as well as carriage fees and issues regarding the exportation of ESPN content.<ref name="afterword">{{cite book |last=Earnheardt |first=Adam C. |editor-last1=McGuire |editor-first1=John |editor-last2=Armfield |editor-first2=Greg |editor-last3=Earnheardt |editor-first3=Adam C. |title=The ESPN Effect: Exploring the Worldwide Leader in Sports |publisher=Peter Lang |date=July 17, 2015 |pages=265–270 |chapter=Chapter 20 Afterword: Challenging the Worldwide Leader in Sports | location = New York | isbn=978-1-4331-2600-0}}</ref> Some critics argue that ESPN's success is their ability to provide other enterprise and investigative sports news while competing with other hard sports-news-producing outlets such as [[Yahoo! Sports]] and [[Fox Sports]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2012/11/09/why-espn-is-the-worlds-most-valuable-media-property-and-worth-40-billion/#62fb79856527|title=Why ESPN Is Worth $40 Billion As The World's Most Valuable Media Property|last=Badenhausen|first=Kurt|date=November 9, 2012|website=Forbes|access-date=February 23, 2018|archive-date=February 24, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224115004/https://www.forbes.com/sites/kurtbadenhausen/2012/11/09/why-espn-is-the-worlds-most-valuable-media-property-and-worth-40-billion/#62fb79856527|url-status=live}}</ref> Some scholars have challenged ESPN's journalistic integrity, calling for an expanded standard of professionalism to prevent biased coverage and conflicts of interest.<ref name="ethics">{{cite journal |last1=Oates |first1=T. P. |last2=Pauly |first2=J. |date=2007 |title=Sports journalism as moral and ethical discourse |journal=Journal of Mass Media Ethics |volume=22 |issue=4 |pages=332–347 |doi=10.1080/08900520701583628 |s2cid=143559022 |url=https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_fac/172 |access-date=December 28, 2022 |archive-date=January 30, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130190519/https://epublications.marquette.edu/comm_fac/172/ |url-status=live |issn=0890-0523}}</ref>

On October 8, 2019, ''[[Deadspin]]'' reported that an internal memo was sent to ESPN employees instructing them to avoid any political discussions regarding the [[People's Republic of China]] and [[Hong Kong]] in the aftermath of a tweet by [[Houston Rockets]] general manager [[Daryl Morey]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://deadspin.com/internal-memo-espn-forbids-discussion-of-chinese-polit-1838881032|title=Internal Memo: ESPN Forbids Discussion Of Chinese Politics When Discussing Daryl Morey's Tweet About Chinese Politics|website=Deadspin|date=October 8, 2019 |access-date=October 8, 2019|archive-date=October 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191013012937/https://deadspin.com/internal-memo-espn-forbids-discussion-of-chinese-polit-1838881032|url-status=live}}</ref>