A look at a series of events that have led up to the recent ESPN layoffs, from a Reuters headlines perspective. This video is a timeline, which illustrates ESPN's leftist agenda and failure to satisfy the majority of its consumer base, which disagrees with ESPN's worldview. Their obsession with supporting the liberal social agenda, has in part been responsible for their loss of major on air ratings giants, like Skip Bayless and Colin Cowherd; and not only losing them but losing them to a direct rival. The recent firings at ESPN weren't a sudden occurrence, but was the manifestation of its gradual decline, after years of ratings slides.