WHAT'S IT TAKE TO GET CANNED AT ESPN?

                                                                                                                                

ESPN suspended anchor Jemele Hill for two weeks on Monday (October 9th) over her tweets in response to Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones' edict from the day before that if players on his team don't stand during the national anthem they won't play. Hill suggested that fans who disagree with Jones' stance should boycott the team's advertisers and not buy their merchandise. She said, "If you strongly reject what Jerry Jones said, the key is his advertisers. Don't place the burden squarely on the players." Hill also referred negatively to the Miami Dolphins new policy requiring players to either stand during the anthem or remain off-field in the tunnel. She clarified on Monday that she wasn't calling for an NFL boycott. Hill's latest tweets came after she got backlash last month for calling President Trump a "white supremacist" in a series of tweets that referenced his comments about the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. After those tweets, Hill said she regretted that her personal views had been reflected on ESPN. In announcing Hill's suspension, ESPN said yesterday that it was for a "second violation" of its social media guidelines." The statement said that after Hill's tweets last month, quote, "all employees were reminded of how individual tweets may reflect negatively on ESPN and that such actions would have consequences. Hence this decision." What's it take to get canned at ESPN?


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