ESPN Suspends Anchor

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When ESPN Anchor Jemele Hill tweeted out that President Trump a white supremacist, the network did nothing. 

When she tweeted out suggesting fans boycott advertisers, that got her a two-week suspension. 

ESPN is caught in another firestorm and this is a network that is not very good when it comes to putting out fires. 

Hill's suspension comes after she tweeted on Sunday and Monday to say the NFL had placed an "unfair burden" on players amid reports that team owners (namely Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones) would pull players off the field if they kneeled during the national anthem.

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Yesterday, she tried backing off those tweets just a bit. 

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For ESPN, calling the President a white supremacist is one thing, but when you tell fans to boycott advertisers, that's a suspension. 

ESPN said in a statement that Hill had "previously acknowledged letting her colleagues and company down" with the tweet about Mr. Trump.

"In the aftermath, all employees were reminded of how individual tweets may reflect negatively on ESPN and that such actions would have consequences. Hence this decision," it said.

But one has to wonder if she tweeted about an advertiser boycott first, would ESPN suspended her at that time?

H/T CBS News