(Sorry about the lack of article, but I couldn't find an actual article of this, and I thought it was a really good blog topic, I hope the video will suffice.)
Well, lookie here. Not even a month ago, the story at Penn St. broke, and ESPN was at the forefront of the circus. They were also the ones to initiate the witch hunt of Joe Paterno, and were one of the main reasons he was fired as quickly and as unexpectedly as he was. They accused him of sweeping the child molestation crimes under the rug, when in reality, he may not have done the best thing, but he certainly wasn't guilty enough to force him out. He contacted the VP in charge of the campus police. In one day. Now, it seems like ESPN themselves have been sweeping the broken pieces of children under the rug for almost a decade.
For those of you who don't know the Bernie Fine story, here's a summary: after the Penn St. scandal, two former ballboys at Syracuse came forward with allegations of sexual abuse by assistant basketball coach Bernie Fine. One of them was Bobby Davis, the man in the phone tape speaking with Fine's wife. ESPN had that tape for EIGHT years, and did not come forward with police because "it's not their responsibility to come forward to authorities". A much worse action than what Joe Pa did or didn't do in the Penn St case, which they were at the head of trying to demonize Paterno. It's sickening to think that a television network has the absolute lack of morality to not only continue allowing a man to abuse young boys sexually, but to also initiate the firing of Joe Paterno is comprehensible.
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