ESPN President John Skipper should probably lookup the meaning of "primum non nocere." Medical school students all across the country are taught this Latin phrase, meaning "first, do no harm," on their first day of classes as a reminder that, given any problem, their first priority should be to simply not make it worse than it already is.
Unfortunately, Skipper doesn't seem to subscribe to this theory because if he did he would realize that sometimes the best way to address a controversy that never should have happened is simply to keep your mouth shut and 'do no further harm.' Alas, Skipper's clearly not a doctor and thus we're all stuck having to read another statement from ESPN attempted to explain why they made a truly moronic decision.
Here's the new statement in which ESPN now makes it seem as if it wasn't actually their decision to pull Robert Lee off the air in Virginia, but rather Lee's decision intended to avoid "social media hectoring and trolling"....
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