Posted on 08/23/2017 6:47:28 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Reuters’ Twitter account claimed ESPN broadcaster Robert Lee was a doppelgänger and namesake of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in two separate, but inaccurate, Wednesday tweets.
Confederate General Lee namesake pulled from upcoming University of Virginia football broadcast: https://t.co/aVzHUOinZb pic.twitter.com/27k5nhehZx
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 23, 2017
Confederate General Lee doppelganger pulled from upcoming University of Virginia football broadcast: https://t.co/rRTtAmZ5lR pic.twitter.com/nEqAujm2Hk
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 23, 2017
Reuters issued a “clarification” moments after incorrectly suggesting the ESPN broadcaster was named after Gen. Robert E. Lee. The clarifying tweet failed to address their separate implication that the Asian American announcer bares a physical resemblance to the caucasian Civil War general.
CLARIFICATION: Announcer with same name as Confederate General Lee pulled from broadcast; not named after Lee https://t.co/ZY7xOJIjFl https://t.co/PmgCcDhBLW
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 23, 2017
ESPN reassigned the announcer in response to the violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Va., Outkick The Coverage reported Tuesday night.
The network defended its decision in a statement released after the report emerged.
“We collectively made the decision with Robert to switch games as the tragic events in Charlottesville were unfolding, simply because of the coincidence of his name. In that moment it felt right to all parties. It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue,” the statement reads.
Journalists immediately pounced on Reuters’ missteps, despite the “clarification” that came minutes after they disseminated the inaccurate tweets.
1. Where is the clarification on “doppelganger”? 2. When does the ad for a new social-media editor go up?
— Jeremy C. Owens (@jowens510) August 23, 2017
Um do you know what doppelganger means? Did someone hack this account?
— Rob Eno (@Robeno) August 23, 2017
In the span of a few tweets, Reuters revealed they have no idea what the words “namesake” and “doppelganger” mean pic.twitter.com/Zvs0K0olfT
— Alex Griswold (@HashtagGriswold) August 23, 2017
Liberals are racist towards Asians.
And these are the folks who accuse Trump of colluding with racists.
This is a national “news” organization. LOL!
Confederate General Lee doppelganger pulled from upcoming University of Virginia football broadcast: https://t.co/rRTtAmZ5lR pic.twitter.com/nEqAujm2Hk
It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue,” the statement reads.
They are pretending it was someone else’s decision.
But the shame is all theirs for making it an issue.
Is this really so unbelievable? Seems to be about par. It is Reuters after all.
...It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue...
Only to lunatic liberals and assorted other snowflakes.
I DO hope that by “tragic events” they are referring to the government abetted gauntlet, and, especially, to the LODD of two Virgina State Troopers.
This is a national “news” organization. LOL!
Journalism School, like the US Senate, really scrapes the bottom of the barrel for candidates.
Physical doppelgänger and namesake doppelgänger are two different things.
Between this and the USC horse “Traveler” fiasco, it shows just how far over the edge the idiots on the left have gone....
They are unless they play classical instruments! It short circuits their racism. No I’m not joking, was raised in an ultra liberal classical music family.
Yes Liberals are racist, most of humanity is to some level. Even Republicans hate Donkeys, such hatred!!! S/
It felt right to Robert Lee when they told him that his services are NOT required because of his name??? Why do I find that hard to believe?
It’s a shame that this is even a topic of conversation and we regret that who calls play by play for a football game has become an issue,” the statement reads.
Nobody made it a topic of conversation until the racists at ESPN made it a topic. Had they just allowed Robert Lee to do the gig as previously planned, no one would have even noticed.
Now, anyone with the last name Lee, White, Jefferson, Washington, Black, Brown, Lynch MUST change their name.....
I forgot to add Jackson, Hamilton and Franklin...
Does that mean I'm smarter than liberals?
Some trolling conservatives should picket HAMILTON (the musical leftists love) and see if they can get a national call to ban it.
I suspect the writer at the news service may not be a native English speaker.
There you go....That would be a great idea...
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