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    ESPN's Robert Lee controversy and the Alex Jones of sports

    Photo by Mak7912 ESPN is under fire. On Tuesday, it was reported that the sports television channel yanked an Asian-American announcer named Robert Lee from a college-football broadcast in Charlottesville, Virginia, where violence erupted ten days before, supposedly over the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Fox Sports Radio…

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    KCRW placeholderBy León Krauze • Aug 24, 2017 • 1 min read

    Photo by Mak7912

    ESPN is under fire. On Tuesday, it was reported that the sports television channel yanked an Asian-American announcer named Robert Lee from a college-football broadcast in Charlottesville, Virginia, where violence erupted ten days before, supposedly over the statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Fox Sports Radio host Clay Travis broke the news. Travis accused ESPN of desperately trying to avoid, "offending left-wing idiots." Sports writer Robert Silverman has written about the controversy for the Daily Beast in the article "Clay Travis The Alex Jones of Sports."

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      León Krauze

      national news anchor, Univision

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      Devan Schwartz

      Producer

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      Gideon Brower

      Independent Producer

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      Yael Even Or

      Producer, 'Press Play'

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      Robert Silverman

      Daily Beast

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