Jemele Hill took her former ESPN colleagues to task over how they treated UFC chairman Dana White after video circulated of him and wife drunkenly fighting on New Year's Eve.
White has since apologized for his actions but many believe that he won't face any criminal charges for the incident because of who he is. Hill pointed out how Smith and his First Take co-host Molly Qerim were gushing over White and the relationship they have with him. Hill said Smith and Qerim “were especially gracious to White, whom they both admitted they are friendly with.” She added that the First Take coverage wouldn't have been as “nuanced and delicate if it had been about someone they didn’t know.”
“Coverage of the incident [which] has overall been pretty soft," Hill wrote, noting that the UFC and ESPN recently agreed to a $1.5 billion deal to air mixed martial arts events. “Having worked at ESPN for 12 years, I know intimately the difference between cursory coverage and a nonstop national conversation fueled by the massive sports-media machine,” she continued.
Source: Nypost.com
