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09-16-2017, 10:21 AM
ESPN is now the frontline of the American political-culture war
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Sports have always been political—but ESPN hasn't.
That tension, which has existed quietly for years at the sports-media giant, has turned into an outright controversy that reached a new height on Friday when President Donald Trump targeted the company via his Twitter account.
ESPN, long a neutral space for sports, now finds itself the frontline for America's politico-culture war.
ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908651641943003136)
The tweet comes after ESPN has been criticized by the right and the left over its handling of Jemele Hill, a TV personality who called Trump a white supremacist in a tweet. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/09/15/espn-jemele-hill-donald-trump/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Sports have always been political—but ESPN hasn't.
That tension, which has existed quietly for years at the sports-media giant, has turned into an outright controversy that reached a new height on Friday when President Donald Trump targeted the company via his Twitter account.
ESPN, long a neutral space for sports, now finds itself the frontline for America's politico-culture war.
ESPN is paying a really big price for its politics (and bad programming). People are dumping it in RECORD numbers. Apologize for untruth!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 15, 2017 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/908651641943003136)
The tweet comes after ESPN has been criticized by the right and the left over its handling of Jemele Hill, a TV personality who called Trump a white supremacist in a tweet. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/09/15/espn-jemele-hill-donald-trump/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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