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Aug 23, 2017 · From ESPN's perspective, the executives were trying to guard against Lee becoming a punchline, given that he shares a name with a Confederate general. They foresaw memes and headlines "Robert Lee ...
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Aug 23, 2017 · ESPN pulls announcer Robert Lee from Virginia game. ESPN's Robert Lee Decision Was Made Out of Fear of Negative Press. Even if ESPN was trying to protect Robert Lee by pulling him from the ...
Aug 24, 2017 · In an effort to avoid associating one of its employees with the ongoing controversy over the leader of a failed white supremacist uprising 156 years earlier, ESPN and/or broadcaster Robert Lee ...
Aug 24, 2017 · By Rachel Lewis. August 24, 2017 8:15 AM EDT. ESPN president John Skipper has explained that the decision to remove Robert Lee as an announcer from Tuesday night’s football game was not because ...
Aug 23, 2017 · Aug. 23, 2017. The latest episode of the culture wars to wash into sports, and the news media that cover it, was prompted (unintentionally) by a broadcaster named Robert Lee. His employer, ESPN ...
Aug 24, 2017 · Robert Lee comes to town to do a game in Charlottesville,” ESPN said in a statement that was tweeted late Tuesday night. “No politically correct efforts. No race issues. Just trying to be ...
