ESPN returned 37 Emmys and disciplined employees after a probe found the sports network got awards for on-air talent by entering fake names for consideration.

I’m not into sportsball, or the Emmys for that matter, so this has me very confused. Isn’t this a scandal for the Emmys as much as it is for ESPN? If you’re giving awards to people that don’t even exist, you clearly aren’t doing any due diligence to see if they deserve the award. And did the people getting these reengraved awards know that they didn’t actually win? They weren’t suspicious that there wasn’t some official announcement from the Emmys? The Emmys wasn’t weirded out by people that didn’t win announcing that they did and showing off their trophy? How is any of this a thing?

    • jacksilver@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      From the quote it sounds like this award was being designated to the show runners. There were other emmys for hosting/etc. that the hosts could have won.

      I think it’s fair for the emmys to designate who is eligible for the award, but I understand why ESPN would also want to recognize the hosts. Personally I think all these awards are mostly made up anyways, but I would say ESPN is more in the wrong as the emmys were specifically saying the hosts weren’t doing anything worthy of an Emmy.