Jemele Hill has been suspended by ESPN for two weeks
for a second violation of its social media guidelines. She issued some tweets critical of Dallas
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for taking a hard line against his players protesting
police profiling by kneeling during the national anthem at NFL games.
ESPN has apparently warned associates about social media speech, even off the job, that could reflect poorly on ESPN or drive away advertisers.
CNN has the story here.
In September ESPN had threatened to discipline or fire
Jemele for calling Donald Trump a “white supremacist.” But Sports Illustrated provided an article saying that Connecticut law provides that even private employers may not
discipline associates for constitutionally protected speech.
That’s unusual.
When I was working for a company that sold life insurance to military
officers, I transferred to another division and moved within the company to
avoid what was perceived as a conflict of interest when I was intending to
publish a book on gays in the military.
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