ESPN to Lay Off 100 After Thanksgiving, Could Cuts Include Jemele Hill?

About 100 employees of sports/liberal political network ESPN can expect to find pink slips in their Christmas stockings this year.

The network continues to lose subscribers in droves thanks to a departure from being primarily about sports coverage and the broadcasting of games into radical racial and leftist politics.

It makes little sense from a business standpoint to alienate a considerable chunk of the audience due to on-air personalities using their positions to preach politics.

The ongoing string of controversies that have plagued the network were never more apparent than when an African-American host of SportsCenter created a firestorm by using her Twitter account to accuse President Trump of being a white supremacist.

She managed to avoid disciplinary action for violating social media policy and only weeks later, took to Twitter again to blast Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones and call for a boycott of the team.

That earned her a two week suspension. Could a more permanent solution to the problem be in the offing?

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Via Sports Illustrated “ESPN layoffs: 100-plus staffers, on-air talent cuts near”:

ESPN will lay off more than 100 staffers after the Thanksgiving holidays, multiple sources tell Sports Illustrated. The layoffs, which were described by a person briefed on the plans, will hit positions across ESPN including front-facing talent on the television side, producers, executives, and digital and technology staffers. The SportsCenter franchise is expected to be hit hard—including on-air people—given the frequency of the show has lessened considerably on main network ESPN.

The network declined comment to SI on Thursday afternoon.

It remains to be seen as to whether Ms. Hill and her fellow SJW travelers will be cut loose but doing so would kill two birds with one stone.

As the NFL is now learning, sports and racial grievance politics are a bad mix, the same is true at ESPN and a layoff provides a perfect opportunity for a holiday housecleaning.