Who asked ESPN to become a political network?

The raging political biases and lack of self-control by leaders and personalities at ESPN continue to drag politics into the network’s content, no matter how little people want to be lectured to by a “sports” network.

The Wall Street Journal detailed several aspects of ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro’s tenure, mostly focused on his wheeling and dealing on streaming and broadcast deals to keep ESPN afloat. The piece ends with a summary of the politics that have been pushed into ESPN content, something to which Pitaro paid lip service when he entered the role.