As if Travis Kelce has been shorted media attention, Sunday it was steadily and transparently apparent that as a matter of pre-determination, he was going to steal TV’s attention at every opportunity.
And Fox was eager to comply, as it ignored a close game to replay Kelce’s unhinged, beast-unchained behavior after every play in which he had a role. Not even by Kelce’s usual post-play antics were these seen or believed as matters of what the NFL excuses as “natural enthusiasm.”
Years ago, without any constitutional amendments, FCC rulings or free-speech ACLU legal filings, TV folks arrived, all by themselves, at a sensible, all-in solution: Rather than encourage drunk-and-on-a-dare fools who’d run out on the field during ball games, they’d simply discourage them by not showing them.
This solution has not only seemed to mostly work, it could’ve well served our newscasts in that it could have discouraged the KKK and Al Sharpton from holding public, fringe-lunatic demonstrations to which TV was summoned and obediently sent news crews that nearly outnumbered the demonstrators.
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