Michael Levine Did You Know That.... ESPN Suspended A Writer Who Called Goodell A Liar Amy Davidson, The New Yorker: Would a political reporter be suspended by his news organization for calling the President a liar? Its practically in the job description. Bill Simmons, of Grantland and other ESPN enterprises, called Roger Goodell, the NFL commissioner, a liar in a podcast and challenged his bosses to tell him he couldnt say so. For that, Simmons has been suspended for three weeks. Goodell said that he had no access to that [Ray Rice] video, which Rices lawyers had (and TMZ eventually got, too), and that no one in his office knew what it looked like. This is what Simmons had to say about that Goodell, if he didn;t know what was on that tape, hes a liar. Im just saying it. He is lying. If you put him up on a lie detector test, that guy would fail. For all these people to pretend they didnt know is such [expletive] [expletive]. It really is, its such [expletive] [expletive]. For him to go into that press conference and pretend otherwise -- I was so insulted. If anything it highlights the issue. With a 3 week suspension, Simmons was punished more harshly for calling BS on Goodell than the initial 2 game suspension than Rice was for knocking out his GF. If anyone thinks that there is or will be impartial reporting about the NFL on the ESPN networks (networks that are dependent upon the NFL for billions of dollars of revenue), he/she is wildly mistaken. ESPN is not going to bite the hand that feeds it. I wish that other reporters would have and might still follow Bill Simmons example and ask some though questions. On the political reporting side there was one, Helen Thomas. I didnt always agree with her assumptions, but she had more balls than every man in the room put together. But that was then and this is now. newyorker/news/amy-davidson/bill-simmons-showed-espn
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 16:00:27 +0000
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