TV MEDIA, SPORTS & POLITICS, & JOHN’S NBC SPORTS PHILADELPHIA EXIT | TRENDIFIER #57 – John Boruk
John Boruk is an Emmy and Murrow Award-winning broadcast anchor. Most notably, he spent 13 years at Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia where he served in various roles including: lead anchor, beat reporter, and writer (***TIMESTAMPS are down below in the description as well as in the video comments).
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****TIMESTAMPS***
3:42 – How money changes athletes; Tom Brady, Kobe, & “The Thing”
14:02 – The state of TV Sports Media; Bing on TV in an online world; The conflict of interests in media; NBC Sports Philadelphia’s relationship with the Philadelphia sports teams; That time Michael Barkann went in on then Flyers owner, Ed Snyder; The Incentive in media to “move up”
33:20 – John tells a wild Detroit story; Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s pardon from Trump
44:04 – John discusses covering the George Floyd protests in June 2020; Cops vs. Politicians in societal issues; What Occupy Wall Street & The Tea Party tried to tell everyone; The failure of the 2 Party System
1:00:43 – Second Amendment; The CIA, NSA, FBI & their scope of power; Edward Snowden’s warning to everyone
1:17:16 – Discussing past presidents; “People vote with their wallets”; Victims in society
1:34:50 – The Hope and purpose crisis; Fear of failure or thrive on perfection?; Amazon vs. The Government; Section 230 & Tech Companies
1:50:29 – Daryl Morey & the Hong Kong Controversy; The NBA’s relationship with China; How the media sells catastrophe in exchange for emotion
2:10:32 – The state of politics in sports; Colin Kaepernick; The extremist ideologies that permeate the two political factions of society today; Protecting unpopular speech due to the slippery slope implications; Revisiting the Capitol Insurrection on January 6; How The Capitol Riot
2:31:38 – John’s exit from Comcast Sportsnet Philadelphia aka CSNPhilly (now NBC Sports Philadelphia – a station covering the Philadelphia Eagles, Philadelphia Sixers, Philadelphia Flyers, and Philadelphia Phillies) and how it all went down; “I like to tell great stories”; What’s next for John
2:45:54 – The power of building your own platform; John talks about a story he covered that was pulled before airing
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