A “Nation of Assholes” nurtured by boorish conduct emanating from the White House is certainly bad, but a Nation of Censors is infinitely worse. Woke World, now in charge of one and a half of the three branches of government, is increasingly enthusiastic about the concept of stifling the communication of inconvenient or unwelcome facts. And, as the top goes, so rots what lies beneath.
The Baltimore Orioles management didn’t like the fact that play-by-play announcer Kevin Brown told a TV audience before a televised game with the Tampa Bay Rays how badly the team had done in its games against the Rays in their home stadium over the years. Indeed, the O’s, now the surprise leaders in the American League East after many seasons of abject failure, had fared exactly as Brown described. But Facts Don’t Matter, so he was mysteriously pulled off Orioles broadcasts as punishment, even though the statistics Brown cited came from the team own PR department’s pregame notes, and were accompanied by screen graphic prepared in advance.
Why was this done? Slate’s analysis is where I come out: the miserable play of Orioles teams over the past decade was the direct result of cheap, stupid management by the Angelos family that still owns the team. “Rather than defending his team’s recent history,” Slate writes, “[team president] John Angelos simply declared it off limits. For broadcast purposes, the losing never happened. If you can’t talk about it, no one can complain about it.”
It’s essentially the same concept that lies behind tearing down Robert E. Lee statues, banning the Confederate flag, or, for that matter, making sure that the news media pretends that Hunter Biden’s laptop was “Russian disinformation.” After all, as the late Harry Reid would say, “It works!”
Well. maybe not in baseball. Last night, Orioles fans at Camden Yards in Baltimore started a “Free Kevin Brown” chant.
There is hope.
Ethics Alarms 
The performance during the Angelos era is evidently misinformation and disinformation.
It’s never a good sign when terms like misinformation and disinformation work their way out of places like the CIA into the media and then everyday parlance. Euphemisms are toxic to the language and the culture.
This quote comes to mind:
“Wherever despotism abounds, the sources of public information are the first to be brought under its control.”
— Calvin Coolidge
It seems to me that if your argument has merit there should be no need for censorship. Therefore its practitioners must know that their arguments are faulty but promote them anyway. Such an attitude must be for personal gain; no other rationale is logical. Weather censorship is practiced or “encouraged” by a company or government entity the practice is unethical.
How can a person be that rich and that insecure simultaneously?
Perplexing.
It may be his sons’ doing. Angelos is a former, fabulously successful, contingent fee and class action plaintiff’s attorney. Inherited wealth can make people a tad tetchy.
It seems to be “how we roll now”. Announcing that “the Emperor has no clothes”, demands “shooting the messenger”.
Subjective “truth” is favored over objective truth, and that is the abject truth.
It is funny how about half the country says “bite me” at the appropriate time, and the other half says “how high” when our self-appointed masters tell us to jump. Maybe a birth order thing? Hah!
I read some of the stories on MLB.com. No one is able to find anything ‘offensive’ he said, other than the truth about the Orioles past losing habits.
Also, I believe they are bringing him back to the broadcast booth.