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Media Activity 1

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Q SPAD 284: Issues and Ethics in Sport Media Activity #1 Directions: Listen to ESPN 30 for 30 March 11, 2020. You can access it for free on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Once you listen to the podcast, fully answer each of the following questions using complete sentences. Please type your responses (in a different font color) directly on this document and upload it to Blackboard. Give a brief review of the podcast (one paragraph of at least three sentences). 1 point 2.What basketball analyst woke up feeling ill on March 11, 2020 and tested positive for coronavirus? 1 point 3.The podcast featured an R&B singer who was supposed to perform at halftime of the Thunder vs. Jazz game on March 11th. Who was the singer? 1 point 4. What did fans receive as they arrived at American Airlines Arena on March 11th? 1 point 5.When they were deciding how to evacuate the arena, what idea upset Clay Bennett? 1 point 6.Using Cavanaugh’s Model of Decision Making, explain why the NBA might have made the decision to suspend their season on March 11, 2020. Make sure you explicitly answer each of the questions associated with utility, rights, and justice in Cavanaugh’s Model. 3 points 7.The day before Rudy Gobert tested positive; he purposefully touched all the microphones during a press conference poking fun at social-distancing protocols. Donovan Mitchell tested positive the day after Gobert did. The pair reportedly did not talk for months following the test results. Using the three components of an ethical dilemma, explain how the conflict between the athletes was an ethical dilemma. 2 points

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1. In the podcast, we hear different stories from NBA players, NBA players, doctors, musicians, governors, news anchors, sport center anchors, beat reporters, and sports center producers. Each it tell their various stories mainly from march 11, 2020, and how the world was mainly from the time they worked up in the morning until during the night when they went to bed. During that day, different parties decided to cancel NBA games and gave the reminder that it was the season of coronavirus, and at the same time, it was the earliest and biggest sign that COVID19was bigger than what people through previously.