
While ESPN was putting on a master class of how to cover difficult news, another member of the sports journalism industry was showing exactly what not to do in a moment of life and death.
After Damar Hamlin’s scary collapse on the field of Bills-Bengals on Monday night, FOX Sports personality Skip Bayless had the audacity to tweet about the “magnitude” of the game and the difficulty of postponing it. After a player went into cardiac arrest and required CPR on the field, that’s what was most important to him.