ESPN warns staff against disparaging Chinese communism

Published October 9, 2019 3:05am ET



As if you needed another reason not to watch ESPN.

The network’s senior news director has reportedly instructed staff to avoid discussing Chinese politics while discussing … Chinese politics. Put another way, he has asked them to cover the biggest sports-related news story of the week in such a way as not to upset ESPN’s parent company, Disney, and its corporate partners in China.

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