Ex-ESPN analyst Ryan Clark believes network executives planted the story of his firing to Fox News-owned OutKick to smear him.
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Clark believes that someone at ESPN was cooperating with OutKick, an outlet “they knew hated me,” he said, to spin the story positively. Clark argued that by having OutKick report the news first, ESPN would get “positive publicity” out of the layoffs before the rest of the bad news hit on Tuesday.
Given Clark’s hints toward a deeper story, there may be info missing. But at face value, it would seem strange for ESPN management to collectively feed OutKick any story. The Clay Travis-founded outlet built a brand out of bashing the Worldwide Leader. At OutKick, even a story celebrating Clark’s ouster would be unlikely to uplift ESPN in any way.
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