Why should anyone feel bad about any of this? ESPN was extorting cable companies for sky-high per-subscriber licensing fees even though 80% of cable subscribers never watch ESPN. They used that filthy money to hire too many people who decided to leave their jobs for inflated contracts that no one in the industry could match.
And then people cried foul and started leaving cable, and the whole pyramid came tumbling down.
Boo freaking hoo.
If you make a choice to go to the company that pays the most in an industry with almost no job security, why am I supposed to cry over this like it's some widget assembler who got his pension cut after 40 years of service?
I don't feel bad for ESPN, per se, but by all accounts, many of these people are decent human beings. I never want to see anyone, regardless of industry, have to go through that.
