She covered sports and the olympics for multiple outlets before ESPN. And it's funny how ESPN is only afraid to piss off its advertisers on this subject. They have no problem with ripping boxing and the NCAA for corruption, blasting Nike and Adidas for the role they played in the biggest scandal in college sports for the last few weeks. She wasn't talking about some random Fortune 500 CEO, she was discussing the remarks of the owner of the most valuable franchise in the most popular sport ON HER PERSONAL TWITTER.
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espn's Jemel Hill calls Trump a white supremacist. White House wants her fired
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She covered sports and the olympics for multiple outlets before ESPN. And it's funny how ESPN is only afraid to piss off its advertisers on this subject. They have no problem with ripping boxing and the NCAA for corruption, blasting Nike and Adidas for the role they played in the biggest scandal in college sports for the last few weeks. She wasn't talking about some random Fortune 500 CEO, she was discussing the remarks of the owner of the most valuable franchise in the most popular sport ON HER PERSONAL TWITTER.
What argument are you even trying to make here? Jemele's speech, while free, isn't free from consequences. Yes, we know how the first amendment works and what it does and doesn't protect. So ESPN can fire her or suspend her, sure. But why aren't you angry at that? When we say "Fuck ESPN" we're angry that ESPN is punishing a sister pushing the truth to the world. And instead, you're saying she should be grateful for their loyalty to her? Why? Do you not agree with Jemele? Would you rather her be censored?
Facts.
LOL. What's great is that your posts perfectly align with what I had to deal with as a Nyer from Rangers fans...sometimes overt, sometimes sub.
The thing is that she's mandated to be on social media by ESPN and sprout of opinion and I guarantee they want her to be 'political' but not political enough. You act as if ESPN is the glorious god that swooped down from the heavens to pick her up as opposed to being a newscaster with years of experience.
For a organization that considers itself sports news in general ESPN has had an issue with basically being in the pocket of the NFL While its within their rights, lets not as if Hill is some gonzo protestor throwing molotov cocktails. All she said was if you disagree with Jones, boycott. ESPN is less mad about her politics, more mad at having the owners mad at them which is a sad place to be for a supposedly impartial news org. And the sad thing is thanks to their parent company they have more 'fuck you' money than God anyway, so its really cowardice thats driving all of this
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Hmm the usual free speech wailers are not talking about this 🤔🤔🤔🤔
IrishNinja
Member
#factsonly
a lazy & dumb one, about an accomplished black woman that he believes owes everything to ESPN & should fall in line during times of protest
How about no.
She's paid for her opinions on sports.
Jerry Jones is an asshole who is threatening players who stand up for the rights of black people in this country.
ESPN should be on the right side of history.
Seriously. ESPN should be ashamed of itself.
ESPN, instead, is on the white side of history.
You mean Free White Men Speech?
This stuff sounds like the commentary you would expect on a show that pays you to cover a subject and talk about opinions. Nothing really even inflammatory. It's pretty sad that ESPN would try to silence her for telling the truth and providing commentary(which is her job). I guess it wasn't the"correct" commentary they wanted to hear.
CassidyIzABeast
Member
Guy tweets this to Jemele
Jemele responds with
+ the countless TV ads all those companies run
That'll get you suspended from work every time.
Black people are supposed to keep their heads down and be grateful for having a job at all, apparently.
Yeah, they should practice free speech on their own time!
But not on twitter on their own time.
Violence Jack
Member
Great to hear. ESPN is already a dumpster fire. PTI, Lebatard, and Bomani are the only things worth a damn on that channel.
IrishNinja
Member
yeah, i did just that & as usual it was...enlightening
cool, guess everything's on the up & up here then
Jerry Jones is perhaps the most powerful owner in sports right now. Jamele would be fired if ESPN just couldn't risk the bad press. He is to the NFL what Steinbrenner was to MLB. He is a megalomaniac and one of the most draconian owners in sports.
ArkhamFantasy
Member
Fuck you ESPN, you chicken shit cowards.
Sick of seeing companies fold to white supremacists.
Sick of seeing companies fold to white supremacists.
Damn, all I can say is props to her for going all in with that response.Guy tweets this to Jemele
Jemele responds with
+ the countless TV ads all those companies run
That'll get you suspended from work every time.
TheBaldEmperor
Member
I knew he would show up in some way. Good on him.
They have no problem attacking the NFL when it's easy. They dedicated whole Sports Center segments to Hannah Storm being ashamed of watching the NFL after the Ray Rice incident. They even let her interview Ray Rice about the Greg Hardy incident on air. That player Jerry Jones thought was worth giving a 2nd chance because the girl he beat took the hush money and ran.
They just don't see bringing attention to police brutality as a worthwhile cause.
Except Simmons' suspension (which was to, frankly, a far bigger star, and a rich white dude) had nothing to do with police brutality. Based on those examples, the more accurate take would be "they'll attack the NFL on domestic violence and nothing else". That would be the Venn diagram that fits most of the cases (backing down on Goodell, concussions, boycotting advertisers of a team, but attacking the NFL on Rice, Hardy, Josh Brown).
BadAss2961
Member
Wonder what their contract situations are... ESPN running the risk of losing them to FS1.
ratcliffja
Member
I wish there were a third alternative. Working for the Murdochs isn't much better.
NBCSN?
And ESPN would be more than happy to give them away. The six's ratings are horrible
Yeah Smith doesn't have any leverage at all here unfortunately. The ratings are terrible and FS1 isn't doing well as a channel at all either.
Nope. They aren't going to FS1 with the likes of Cowherd and Whitlock. Maybe NBC sports if that's even a thing
TheLaughingStock
Member
She's popular and has a platform on ESPN because she's good at what she does (which presumably attracted ESPN) rather than them doing her a favor.
Now I don't like her latest tweets because what will do the most damage is people like her saying go after the advertisers vs. some random fan of the game doing it on their own. But that's another story.
IrishNinja
Member
random fans wouldn't know to do it without her speaking on it, though - that's how a platform works
You should check out NFL Network more.
Squirrel Killer
Member
I was going to say that I can't be in every thread that involves free speech until I realized I was seeing this thread in my subscribed list.
Unfortunately, advocating boycotting your employer's partner's advertisers, many of whom likely advertise on your employer's platform as well, probably crosses that line.
