ESPN Removes Announcer Because of Name

[Dill]

(08-23-2017, 11:04 AM)Millhouse Wrote: This is 100% proof of the direction that ESPN has moved towards. Rather than being neutral and trying to do what they did best in the past, they now put sports secondary to being politically correct for what I call the left California lib crowd. Brucelyn Jenner winning that Espy over Lauren Hill was another sign of this happening a few years ago, which I think was part of the reason Colin Cowherd was basically let go because he blasted it on his show.

I think this is people worrying about advertising, stock prices, and potential litigation. No one takes a "neutral" stance towards the bottom line.

It has nothing to do with "leftism" or sensitivity to Virginians or conversion to California liberalism.  It is just a kind of risk management, very clumsily handled by people making wild guesses about marketing consequences based on labels.

I think there was zero chance that the most committed anti-racist listening to a football game was going to be offended by a guy whose parents named him "Robert" decades ago.