ESPN SUSPENDS JEMELE HILL FOR 2 WEEKS AFTER SECOND VIOLATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDELINES
ESPN’s “SportsCenter” anchor Jemele Hill , who famously called Donald Trump a “white supremacist” on Twitter, was suspended by ESPN on Monday (Oct. 9) for breaking company rules yet again with her use of Twitter.
“Jemele Hill has been suspended for two weeks for a second violation of our social media guidelines,” read an ESPN statement. “She previously acknowledged letting her colleagues and company down with an impulsive tweet. In the aftermath, all employees were reminded of how individual tweets may reflect negatively on ESPN and that such actions would have consequences. Hence this decision.”
It appears Hill was benched for what was perceived as advocating for a boycott of NFL advertisers Sunday night following reports that the Dallas Cowboys and Miami Dolphins have made it mandatory for their players to stand for the national anthem.
On Monday morning, Hill tweeted: “Just so we’re clear: I’m not advocating a NFL boycott. But an unfair burden has been put on players in Dallas & Miami w/ anthem directives.”
Her suspension comes a little more than week after Hill penned an essay for The Undefeated, in which the TV anchor said she let her bosses and colleagues down, and for that she felt awful.
“Twitter wasn’t the place to vent my frustrations because, fair or not, people can’t or won’t separate who I am on Twitter from the person who co-hosts the 6 p.m. SportsCenter,” Hill wrote amid the backlash of her Trump tweet. “Twitter also isn’t a great place to have nuanced, complicated discussions, especially when it involves race.”
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Another slap on the wrist from ESPN, but it is starting to hurt.
I could have warned ESPN a long time ago:
"WHEN YOU PLAY WITH SH$T YOU END UP COVERED WITH IT!"
You can slander the President and the cabinet.
But don't mess with the NFL. ESPN knows who it works for.
She can't seem to control her temper.
She should really just go work for CNN or MSNBC. Then she'd get paid to hate Trump and promote racial division. She'd get suspended for saying anything fair and non biased about Trump instead.
Just fire her, she will do it again
She thinks she is all that and more. Because she is black doesn't give her any special privileges on TV unless that is what she is paid to say.
I imagine in her little mind she does get special privileges.
Who cares, I'd still like to boink her!
Those are some low standards you've got there.